Cloud DevOps & Governance Engineer

Position Title: Cloud DevOps & Governance Engineer 
Location: Remote (US-based required; must reside/work within the United States)
Allocation: 0.5 FTE (Months 1–4) / 0.25 FTE (Month 5) | Total Hours: ~360 hours

Required Certification (Must possess at least ONE):
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer OR
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Security Engineer


Job Description:

• We are seeking a Cloud DevOps & Governance Engineer to support the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Data Platform Refinement initiative for the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). This role is responsible for provisioning core data infrastructure via Terraform, establishing CI/CD deployment pipelines, configuring Cloud Monitoring and alert frameworks, and enforcing GCP security and Dataplex governance controls.

• Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision and manage all new GCP infrastructure (Cloud Composer, BigQuery, GCS landing zones, Pub/Sub, Dataplex, DLP) using Terraform stored in the client’s GitHub repositories

• CI/CD & Automation: Design, build, and maintain CI/CD promotion patterns across DEV, TEST, and PROD environments for Airflow DAGs, Data Fusion pipelines, Dataform models, BigQuery objects, and monitoring configurations in alignment with client guidelines.

• Data Governance & Security: Deploy Dataplex discovery and profiling scans, configure Cloud DLP inspection templates for sensitive PII, and enforce least-privilege IAM roles, service account isolation, secrets management, and encryption standards

• Observability & Monitoring: Implement Cloud Monitoring alert policies and central dashboards for job failures, long-running processes, schema drift, and reconciliation mismatches.

• Environment Isolation: Ensure complete pipeline, service account, and environment isolation so that operations in one program domain do not cross-impact another.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of Cloud DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Data Governance experience.

• 3+ years of dedicated experience writing, modularizing, and maintaining Terraform scripts on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Technical Expertise:

• Hands-on proficiency with GCP Core Services: Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow), BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataform, Dataplex, Cloud DLP, Cloud Monitoring, Pub/Sub, and Cloud IAM[cite: 1, 5].

• Strong expertise in GitHub CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment workflows, and multi-environment (DEV/TEST/PROD) code promotion standards.