Google Cloud Architect / Lead Platform Engineer

About the role

NCS Australia is expanding its Google Cloud Solutions Group and seeks a senior technical authority to design, secure, and build core platform components for a major enterprise transformation.

Key responsibilities

• Design, document, and build ~15 enterprise‑grade platform solutions such as secrets management, workload identity federation, custom landing zones, and advanced CI/CD pipelines.
• Partner with security architects to embed zero‑trust governance, threat‑modeling feedback, and guide solutions through formal security reviews.
• Provision resilient GCP foundations using GKE, Cloud Run, GCVE, Compute Engine and enterprise VPC topologies.
• Develop production‑ready Terraform modules following GitOps and Cloud Foundation Fabric patterns.
• Create automated build/release pipelines with GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy and custom Python/Bash scripts.
• Implement observability across workloads using OpenTelemetry, New Relic and service‑mesh architectures.

Required profile

• Proven senior/lead experience as a GCP architect or principal platform engineer on enterprise‑scale projects.
• Hands‑on ability to write production‑grade Terraform, configure complex network topologies and troubleshoot platform pipelines.
• Security‑first mindset with expertise in zero‑trust, IAM policies, KMS, Secret Manager and workload identity.
• Professional Google Cloud certification (e.g., Cloud Architect, Cloud DevOps Engineer, or Cloud Security Engineer).

Required skills

• Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Cloud Run, GCVE, Compute Engine, VPC)
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code with Terraform (modular design, state management)
• GitOps, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy
• Python and Bash scripting
• CI/CD pipeline design and automation
• Observability tools: OpenTelemetry, New Relic, service mesh

What we offer

• Opportunity to work on a high‑impact, enterprise‑wide cloud transformation.
• Collaborative environment that values innovation, curiosity and continuous learning.
• Support for professional growth and career development within a diverse, inclusive team.