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We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow.
Job DescriptionThe GCP Data Engineer (Google Cloud) role is responsible for building and scaling the massive, reliable data infrastructure that powers critical decisions, product features, and advanced analytics across our organization—impacting billions of users daily. As a Data Engineer, you will be a core architect and builder of our next-generation data pipelines, transforming raw, high-volume data into structured, actionable insights.
You will design, construct, implement, and rigorously manage end-to-end data processing systems, focusing on robustness, efficiency, security, and high throughput. Your challenge will be to translate complex, ambiguous business requirements from product managers and data scientists into scalable, fault-tolerant solutions using cutting-edge Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies. This includes deep involvement with services like BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Composer, and Pub/Sub.
Your contributions will be instrumental in enabling data-driven optimization across areas such as product development, machine learning model training, and operational efficiency, making you a vital partner in Google's ongoing innovation. We're looking for an engineer ready to tackle petabyte-scale data challenges and champion data quality across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Design and Build: Develop, test, and maintain scalable data pipelines (ETL/ELT) using technologies like Dataflow (Apache Beam), Composer (Apache Airflow), and BigQuery.
- Infrastructure Management: Architect and optimize data models within BigQuery for performance and cost efficiency, supporting high-volume analytical workloads.
- Collaboration: Work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, and Software Engineers to understand data needs and ensure data quality, integrity, and security across all platforms.
- Operational Excellence: Monitor and troubleshoot production data systems, implementing best practices for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) of data pipelines.
- Innovation: Explore and recommend new data technologies and cloud services to enhance data architecture and governance.
- Strong background and experience in Google (GCP) along with a background as a GCP Data Engineer.
- Experience with real-time streaming data processing using technologies like Pub/Sub and Dataflow Streaming.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Deep understanding of DataOps principles and automated testing for data quality.
- Previous experience in a similar role as a Cloud Engineer developing, implementing or managing secure Google Cloud solutions at an enterprise level
- Previous experience building infrastructure as code with Terraform at an advanced level
- Ability to script in at least one of the following languages: Python, Bash
- Applied knowledge of CI/CD concepts and deployment of platform solutions
- Solutions experience leveraging GCP-based core services such as Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, etc.
- Be well-versed in networking concepts, including virtual private clouds (VPCs), subnets, load balancing, firewalls, and DNS
- Experience designing secure and scalable network architectures on Google Cloud
- Security-focused with a deep understanding of cloud security principles, threats, and mitigation techniques
- Hold one more of the following Professional Level Google Cloud certifications: Cloud Architect, Cloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Developer or other professional-level Google Cloud certifications
Why NCS?
This is a place for people who like to get stuck in, bring ideas to life and make things happen. You'll work alongside experienced people who care about what they do, contribute to meaningful work and have the support to keep learning and grow your career. Whether you want to deepen your expertise, explore something new or take your career in a different direction, there's room to make it your own. We value Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership and Unity - bringing curiosity, collaboration and accountability to the way we work with our clients and each other.
Ready to make extraordinary happen?
We'd love to hear from you.
We celebrate diversity and inclusion
We value different perspectives, experiences and strengths our people bring. We're committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to contribute, grow and succeed, and to providing equal employment opportunities and reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Important information
Applicants will need valid Australian work rights and may be required to undergo relevant background, probity and police checks.
Agencies: NCS accepts candidate submissions only from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal.
Skills Required
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform as a GCP Data Engineer
- Experience with real-time streaming data processing using Pub/Sub and Dataflow Streaming
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Git or another version control system
- Deep understanding of DataOps principles and automated data-quality testing
- Experience developing, implementing, or managing secure enterprise Google Cloud solutions
- Advanced experience building infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Ability to script in Python or Bash
- Applied knowledge of CI/CD concepts and platform-solution deployment
- Experience with GCP services including Compute Engine, App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub
- Knowledge of VPCs, subnets, load balancing, firewalls, and DNS
- Experience designing secure and scalable Google Cloud network architectures
- Strong understanding of cloud security principles, threats, and mitigation techniques
- At least one professional-level Google Cloud certification, such as Cloud Architect, Cloud DevOps Engineer, or Cloud Developer
- Valid Australian work rights
- Ability to undergo relevant background, probity, and police checks
What We Do
NCS in Australia is reinventing technology services from the inside out. We provide advisory, design, build and managed services to our clients, with unrivalled service, attention and understanding every step of the way. We understand day 1001 is just an important as day 1, and we collaborate with clients, striving to provide adaptive approaches, outcomes and thinking by keeping our eye on tomorrow and the days after tomorrow. Our diverse workforce of around 1,300 people has delivered a wealth of large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform outcomes for governments and businesses nationally. We are the Australian arm of the pan-APAC technology leader NCS Group, a subsidiary of Singtel Group. Combining the experience and expertise of its 13,000-strong team across 57 specialisations, NCS provides differentiated and end-to-end technology services to clients with its capabilities in digital, data, cloud and platforms, as well as core offerings in application, infrastructure, engineering and cybersecurity. NCS also believes in building a strong partner ecosystem with leading technology players, research institutions and start-ups to support open innovation and co-creation. For more information about NCS Australia, visit ncs.co/en-au or contact our team today. To learn more about NCS Group, visit ncs.co.
