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.

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

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