Cloud Engineer

Bright and Duggan; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright & Duggan Group is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our engineering team in Sydney. You will design, build and evolve Google Cloud environments, focusing on automation, resilience and security while mentoring peers.

You’ll work closely with Head of Engineering, Data professionals and Security specialists to deliver scalable platform initiatives, implement IaC with Terraform and drive continuous improvement across the estate.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional engineering experience in cloud engineering roles.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale environments on Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of GCP networking, IAM, organisation policy and security fundamentals.
• Extensive experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capability.
• Ability to work effectively within a collaborative engineering team.
• Experience with GKE/Anthos, Cloud Run and container-based workloads.
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures (e.g. Pub/Sub).

Responsibilities

• Design cloud architecture for distributed and event-driven workloads using services.
• Design architectures for distributed services data, data analytics and A.I. services.
• Build and evolve landing zones, resource hierarchy, VPC networking, IAM and organisation policy foundations.
• Solve complex integration, connectivity and data movement challenges.
• Be responsible for platform scalability, resilience, disaster recovery and long-term maintainability.
• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable enterprise Google Cloud environments.
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform across development, test and production.
• Deliver reliable, secure and cost-effective cloud infrastructure.
• Take ownership of environments from design through to ongoing operation.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply contemporary cloud engineering, DevOps and SRE practices.
• Utilise AI-assisted tooling to improve productivity and quality.
• Develop and maintain cloud engineering standards, reusable infrastructure as code and reference architectures.
• Champion observability, automation, security and operational excellence in line with Well Architected framework.
• Drive cloud cost visibility and optimisation.
• Work closely with Engineering, Security, Data and Technology Operations teams.
• Mentor engineers through coaching, reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with fellow Senior Engineers to solve complex problems.
• Share expertise and contribute to a high-performing engineering culture.

Skills

Google Cloud

GCP Networking

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Event-driven

Security fundamentals

Tools

Terraform

BigQuery

Cloud Run

Vertex AI

Job description

Bright & Duggan Group is built on the principles of United, Trusted, Accountable, and Visionary. These values serve as the foundation for our team and guide our approach to work and interactions with clients and colleagues. We expect all employees to consistently promote and uphold these values.

As Bright & Duggan team members, our employees act as ambassadors for the whole group. Our diverse portfolio comprises of four main pillars: strata management, integrated resort management, building and facilities management and asset management. To foster growth and extend our service offerings and reach, we expect our employees to actively promote all brands and products associated with Bright & Duggan.

The Opportunity

We're looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our growing engineering team.

This is an opportunity to work on significant platform and infrastructure initiatives in a collaborative, engineering-led environment where quality, simplicity, automation and continuous improvement matter.

Working alongside the Head of Engineering, Product Manager, Security specialists, Data professionals and fellow Senior Engineers, you'll help design, build and evolve our Google Cloud environment while contributing to technical excellence across the team.

This role offers the opportunity to influence architectural decisions, mentor others and work on complex infrastructure challenges that will have a genuine impact across the organisation.

What You'll Be Working On

• Design cloud architecture for distributed and event-driven workloads using services
• Design architectures for distributed services data, data analytics and A.I. services
• Build and evolve landing zones, resource hierarchy, VPC networking, IAM and organisation policy foundations
• Solve complex integration, connectivity and data movement challenges
• Be responsible for platform scalability, resilience, disaster recovery and long-term maintainability
• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable enterprise Google Cloud environments
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform across development, test and production
• Deliver reliable, secure and cost-effective cloud infrastructure
• Take ownership of environments from design through to ongoing operation
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines
• Apply contemporary cloud engineering, DevOps and SRE practices
• Utilise AI-assisted tooling to improve productivity and quality
• Develop and maintain cloud engineering standards, reusable infrastructure as code and reference architectures
• Champion observability, automation, security and operational excellence in line with Well Architected framework
• Drive cloud cost visibility and optimisation
• Work closely with Engineering, Security, Data and Technology Operations teams
• Mentor engineers through coaching, reviews and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with fellow Senior Engineers to solve complex problems
• Share expertise and contribute to a high-performing engineering culture

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of professional engineering experience in cloud engineering roles
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale environments on Google Cloud
• Strong understanding of GCP networking, IAM, organisation policy and security fundamentals
• Extensiveexperience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capability
• Ability to work effectively within a collaborative engineering team
• Experience with GKE/Anthos, Cloud Run and container-based workloads
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures (e.g. Pub/Sub)

Highly Desirable

• Experience with modern SpringBoot/Java applications
• Experience with workflow orchestration and automation (e.g. Temporal)
• Experience with Vertex AI, e.g. Document AI, Agent Engine/ADK, AutoML
• Experience with Anthos Config/Service Mesh
• Experience with Memorystore, Spanner, BigQuery and data platform tooling
• Experience with Google Cloud Observability (Cloud Logging, Monitoring, Trace) or equivalent platforms
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and practices
• Experience with cloud governance, compliance and FinOps practices at scale
• Previous experience within PropTech, strata, property, workflow or financial systems environments

Build, Don't Just Maintain

This is an opportunity to work on significant technology initiatives and modern platform development rather than simply supporting legacy applications.

Join a team that values technical excellence, quality outcomes, ownership and continuous learning.

Modern Ways of Working

Work with contemporary technologies, automation, cloud-native approaches and AI-assisted development practices.

Influence and Impact

Have a genuine voice in how solutions are designed, delivered and evolved while helping shape the future engineering capability of the organisation.

Invest in Your Growth

Work alongside experienced technology leaders and engineers who are passionate about developing people, sharing knowledge and building exceptional software.

About You

You're an experienced engineer who enjoys solving difficult problems, improving the way things work and building software that makes a difference.

You take ownership, communicate openly, continuously learn and genuinely enjoy working with other talented engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Most importantly, you're excited about joining an organisation that is investing in technology and building a strong engineering capability for the future.