Lead GCP Data Engineer

Job Title : Lead GCP Data Engineer

Location : Remote

Job Type : Contract

8 + years of experience of development experience within GCP (not just monitoring or DevOps)

Candidates MUST have Lead experience (lead / mentor other engineers, assign work, communicate with leadership)

Candidates need to have GCP development experience in BigQuery

Candidates need to be independent and able to define their own work that needs to be completed

Technical Skillset

Experience working with large data models and data architecture principles.

Proficiency in GCP services such as Cloud Storage, BigQuery, CloudSQL, Dataflow, Airflow and others.

Strong programming skills in languages used in cloud development, such as Python, Java, SQL, etc.

Understanding of cloud computing principals, including infrastructure as a service(IaaS), Platform as a Service(PaaS), and Software as a Service(SaaS).

Experience working with Google Cloud SDK and APIs to interact with GCP services programmatically and automate tasks.

Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes for deploying and managing containerised applications on GCP.

Understanding of serverless computing concepts and experience developing serverless applications using GCP services like Cloud Functions and Cloud Run.

Experience setting up CI / CD pipelines using tools like GitHub to automate software deployment on GCP.

Proficiency in development tools and IDEs such as Google Cloud Shell, Cloud Code for Visual Studio Code or Cloud Tools for IntelliJ.