Senior Cloud Engineer - Google Cloud, Terraform & CI/CD

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 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.