DevOps Engineer, Google Cloud & GitLab CI/CD

NCS Group Australia; Council of the City of Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Wellbeing initiatives

Discounted health insurance

Employee discounts

Recognition programs

AI‑driven learning platform

Career development

Job summary

NCS Australia is seeking an ambitious DevOps Engineer (Google / GCP) to modernise and automate highly available Google Cloud environments and hybrid CD pipelines. You will configure, deploy, and integrate GitLab across GCP and on‑prem environments to enable secure, scalable delivery across hybrid infrastructure.

You will build and maintain scalable GCP infrastructure with Terraform, manage GKE clusters, and lead pipeline engineering for microservices and legacy workloads.

Qualifications

• Experience configuring, managing, and integrating GitLab across hybrid environments (GCP and on‑premises).
• Hands‑on with Google Cloud Platform services (GKE, IAM, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage).
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning in GCP/hybrid setups.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (GKE) in production environments.
• Scripting in Bash/Python/Go for automation and tooling.
• Understanding of hybrid cloud networking and IAM security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Hybrid GitLab integration across GCP and on‑premises environments to create CI/CD pipelines, runner groups, and deployment patterns.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Google cloud native tools.
• Build, optimise, and manage robust CI/CD pipelines for microservices, legacy apps, and cloud workloads.
• Manage and fine‑tune Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, helm charts, and container registries for reliable execution.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting with Google Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Embed automated security scanning and IAM policy enforcement into GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

GitLab & Hybrid Experience

GCP Expertise

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Containers & Orchestration (Docker, K8

Scripting (Bash, Python, Go)

Hybrid Networking & IAM Security

Tools

GKE

Terraform

Job description

NCS Australia is seeking an ambitious DevOps Engineer (Google / GCP) to modernise and automate highly available Google Cloud environments and hybrid CD pipelines. You will configure, deploy, and integrate GitLab across GCP and on‑prem environments to enable secure, scalable delivery across hybrid infrastructure.

You will build and maintain scalable GCP infrastructure with Terraform, manage GKE clusters, and lead pipeline engineering for microservices and legacy workloads.