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Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together.\nWe 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.\n We are seeking an experienced Senior GCP Platform Engineer to join our enterprise cloud and engineering organization in Sydney.\nIn this hands-on engineering role, you will lead the design, build, and maintenance of secure cloud infrastructure and modern containerized applications built on Google Cloud Platform. 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Enforce rigorous cloud security principles, threat mitigation, and secure software delivery practices.\n\nDeveloper Enablement & Automation: Write robust automation scripts in Python or Bash, bridging platform operations with software engineering workflows (e.g., GitHub/GitLab CI pipelines).\n\nStakeholder Collaboration: Consult closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery, operational stability, and ongoing platform optimization.\n\n Essential Experience:\nEnterprise GCP Experience: Proven track record in a similar senior cloud engineering role designing, implementing, and managing secure Google Cloud solutions at an enterprise level.\n\nAdvanced Infrastructure as Code: Expert-level experience building and managing cloud infrastructure using Terraform.\n\nAutomation & Scripting: Strong programming or scripting capability in at least one of Python or Bash.\n\nCore GCP Services & Containers: Deep solutions experience across core GCP workloads, containerization platforms (GKE, Cloud Run), and data/messaging services.\n\nNetworking & Security Mastery: Comprehensive knowledge of GCP enterprise networking concepts, VPC topologies, and cloud security compliance.\n\nCI/CD & GitOps: Applied knowledge of modern CI/CD concepts, pipeline automation, and GitOps deployment models.\n\nProfessional Certifications: Hold one or more Professional Level Google Cloud certifications (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, or Professional Cloud Developer).\n\nLocation & Rights: Sydney-based (hybrid) with full Australian working rights.\n\nDesirable:\nPrevious experience delivering cloud solutions within government, defense, or highly regulated enterprise environments.\n\nFamiliarity with broader enterprise tooling (such as Tenable vulnerability management or identity federations like Ping Identity).\n\n Why NCS?\nThis 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.\nReady to make extraordinary happen?\nWe'd love to hear from you.\nWe celebrate diversity and inclusion\nWe value different perspectives, experiences and strengths our people bring. 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