DevOps Engineer (Google Cloud)

We are seeking an ambitious hands-on DevOps Engineer (Google / GCP) to join our cloud platform this role you will be instrumental in modernizing automating and maintaining highly available Google Cloud environments and hybrid continuous delivery pipelines.

A primary focus for this position will be configuring deploying and integrating GitLab across both GCP and on-premises environmentsensuring seamless secure code delivery and orchestration across hybrid infrastructure. Sitting at the intersection of development and operations you will empower software squads to ship code faster safer and more reliably.

What Youll Be Doing

• Hybrid GitLab Integration: Configure administer and integrate GitLab across GCP and on-premises environments creating seamless CI/CD pipelines runner groups and automated deployment patterns across hybrid infrastructure.

• GCP Infrastructure Automation: Design build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Google Cloud native tools.

• Pipeline Engineering: Build optimize and manage robust continuous integration and deployment pipelines for microservices legacy systems and cloud workloads.

• Container Orchestration: Manage and fine-tune Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters helm charts and container registries to ensure reliable execution of workloads.

• Observability & Reliability: Implement comprehensive monitoring logging and alerting systems using Google Cloud Operations (Stackdriver) Prometheus Grafana or Datadog to maintain peak platform reliability.

• DevSecOps Integration: Embed automated security scanning policy enforcement (IAM Organization Policies) and vulnerability management directly into GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

• Operational Excellence & Mentorship: Troubleshoot complex build and platform issues participate in incident management and share DevOps best practices across engineering squads.

Qualifications :

Core Requirements:

• GitLab & Hybrid Experience: Proven experience configuring managing and integrating GitLab (SaaS or Self-Managed) across hybrid environments (GCP and on-premises infrastructure).

• GCP Expertise: Strong hands-on experience engineering and administering core Google Cloud Platform services (GKE VPCs IAM Cloud Run Cloud Functions Pub/Sub Cloud Storage).

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep proficiency with Terraform for provisioned and version-controlled GCP and hybrid infrastructure.

• Containers & Orchestration: Proven track record working with Docker and Kubernetes (specifically GKE).

• Scripting & Automation: High proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash Python or Go.

• Hybrid Networking & Security: Solid understanding of hybrid cloud networking (hybrid connectivity VPNs subnets firewalls load balancers Cloud DNS) and IAM security fundamentals.

Highly Regarded:

• Official certifications: GitLab Certified Associate/Professional or Google Cloud Certifications (Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer / Professional Cloud Architect).

• Experience with GitOps methodologies (e.g. ArgoCD Flux) and Helm.

• Familiarity with service mesh architectures (Istio / Anthos Service Mesh).

Additional Information :

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint industry and partner training programs special interest groups and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we are dedicated to attracting retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity ethnicity sexual orientation disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. 

Agencies:

Weve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process no fee or payment will be given.

Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process including probity and police checks

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time