Senior Cloud Ops Engineer - VRE & GCP - 12 month contract

Your opportunity

As CloudOps Engineer - GCP, you will play a key role in the operation, optimisation and continuous improvement of Scentre Group's Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

You'll ensure our cloud platforms are stable, secure and efficient, while driving automation, standardisation and self-service capabilities across engineeing, data, integration and analytics teams.

What you'll be doing

• Operate, maintain and improve GCP-based cloud platforms, ensuring high availability, performance and security


• Manage core services including networking, IAM, Kubernetes (GKE), storage and data platforms


• Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)


• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to enable serlf-service


• Monitor platform health, reliability, capacity and cost, proactively addressing risk


• Support and scale Kubernetes environments (GKE/Rancher) across the platform lifecycle


• Drive cloud governance, security and cost optimisation uplift


• Troubleshoot and resolve complex incidents and platform issues (including on-call support)


• Collaborate with engineering, data and vendor teams to deliver continuous platform improvements

What you'll bring

We're looking for a hands on CloudOps engineer with strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform and experience operating at enterprise scale.

• Proven experience with GCP, including networking (VPC), IAM, Kubernetes (GKE) and core cloud services


• Strong hands on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, delivering automated, scalable platforms


• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps toolchains (e.g. GitHub, Buildkite, ArgoCD, Atlantis)


• Solid understanding of cloud security, networking and cost optimisation practices


• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Monitoring)


• Exposure to data and analytics platforms on GCP (e.g. BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc)

About us

Scentre Group owns 42 Westfield destinations across Australia and New Zealand. We create extraordinary places and experiences that connect and enrich communities.

We are focused on our customers and creating more reasons for more people to visit our Westfield destinations more often and for longer.

With approximately 75 professions within our business, our team has the expertise to design, construct, operate, manage and market our Westfield destinations and platforms.

We want to be the place where talent thrives. To support you thriving with us, we promise to respect, inspire and develop you, and that you will do work that matters.

Diversity, equity and inclusion underpins our culture, and our vision is that 'Everyone Belongs'. We foster a workplace experience where everyone feels valued, supported and motivated to realise their full potential.

We aspire to create a workforce reflective of the communities in which we operate and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or life stage. If you require support or adjustments during the application process, please contact us confidentially at .

We offer a range of unique benefits designed to support your wellbeing, career development and lifestyle, including five days paid Life Leave on top of your four weeks annual leave (pro-rated for part-time), 18 weeks gender neutral paid parental leave for primary carers, with no qualifying period and super paid for the duration of the leave period and free parking at your local Westfield destination.

Discover more about working with us.

Applications close: 24th August2026