Lead Google Cloud Architect & Platform Engineer
NCS Australia
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Job summary
NCS Australia is seeking a senior Google Cloud Architect & Lead Platform Engineer to own end-to-end platform design, security governance, and hands-on engineering for ~15 core components. You will drive architectural blueprints, landing zones, and IaC pipelines, working with security reviews and principal engineers.
The role blends architecture with practical implementation across GCP services (GKE, Cloud Run, GCVE, Compute Engine) and automation pipelines, offering a high-impact opportunity in
Qualifications
- Senior GCP Architect with enterprise-scale leadership.
- Balance architectural design with hands-on Terraform and network topology wiring.
- Expert in zero-trust architecture, IAM, KMS/Secret Manager.
- Mastery of Terraform modular architecture/state management and GitOps.
- Ability to produce solution design documents and diagrams.
- Professional Cloud Certification required (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect/DevOps Engineer/Security Engineer).
Responsibilities
- Design, document, and build ~15 enterprise-grade platform component solutions.
- Partner with security architects on threat modeling and governance.
- Design and provision GCP foundations using GKE, Cloud Run, GCVE, Compute Engine, and VPC.
- Architect and deploy production-ready Terraform modules with GitOps.
- Design automated build/release workflows with GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy.
- Implement telemetry and service mesh using OpenTelemetry and New Relic across GKE/GCP.
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Job description
NCS Australia is seeking a senior Google Cloud Architect & Lead Platform Engineer to own end-to-end platform design, security governance, and hands-on engineering for ~15 core components. You will drive architectural blueprints, landing zones, and IaC pipelines, working with security reviews and principal engineers.
The role blends architecture with practical implementation across GCP services (GKE, Cloud Run, GCVE, Compute Engine) and automation pipelines, offering a high-impact opportunity in
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