GCP Data Engineer

Data Engineer - GCP | £525-£550 per day | Inside IR35 6-Month Contract | Hybrid - 2 Days Onsite in Isleworth 83zero are working with a leading media and broadcasting organisation who are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join their engineering team on an initial 6-month contract.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building and supporting cloud-native data applications, services and scalable data pipelines within Google Cloud Platform.

We are looking for someone with a strong software engineering mindset who is comfortable developing production-grade applications, working with large-scale data platforms and automating cloud infrastructure.

What You'll Be Doing Designing, developing and maintaining scalable data applications and engineering solutions within GCP.<br />Building production-grade ETL and data processing pipelines handling large volumes of data.<br />Developing cloud-native applications and services using Python, Go and BASH.<br />Working extensively with GCP technologies, including BigQuery, Pub/Sub and Dataflow.<br />Building and integrating APIs, services and automated workflows across the data platform.<br />Writing reusable, maintainable and well-tested application code.<br />Automating cloud infrastructure and deployments using Terraform and Ansible.<br />Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI or GoCD.<br />Supporting applications and services running within Linux-based environments.<br />Troubleshooting performance, reliability and production issues across applications and data pipelines.<br />Working closely with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions into production.

What We're Looking For Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer / Software Engineer / Data Application Engineer.<br />Excellent hands-on development experience with Python, ideally alongside Go and BASH.<br />Strong experience building applications, services and data pipelines within Google Cloud Platform.<br />Hands-on knowledge of BigQuery, Pub/Sub and Dataflow.<br />Experience designing and developing scalable ETL / data processing solutions.<br />Good understanding of software engineering principles, testing and production-grade development.<br />Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and ideally Ansible.<br />Experience working with CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines.<br />Strong knowledge of Linux environments.<br />Comfortable working within a large-scale engineering environment and taking ownership of solutions through development, deployment and production support.<br />Able to work 2 days per week onsite in Osterley