API/GCP Platform Engineer

Location: Sydney, NSW, au

Company Description

At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together.

We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced API / GCP Platform Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will sit at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, API management, and modern developer platforms.

You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust platform foundations on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) while enabling seamless, secure API connectivity across enterprise systems. This position is ideal for an engineer who excels at bridging infrastructure automation with developer experience—ensuring our cloud environments are secure, scalable, and easy for application teams to build upon.

What You’ll Be Doing

• GCP Platform Engineering: Design, build, and maintain core landing zones, infrastructure, and platform services within Google Cloud Platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• API Gateway & Governance: Implement and manage enterprise API gateways, routing patterns, and security policies (e.g., Apigee, GCP API Gateway) to enable secure integration across microservices and external systems.

• Automation & CI/CD: Architect and manage robust CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated testing, and release workflows for both platform infrastructure and API proxies.

• Developer Enablement: Create clear patterns, service templates, and "as-a-service" capabilities that simplify cloud adoption for software engineering teams.

• Security & Observability: Implement end-to-end monitoring, logging, and security controls across GCP environments and API layers, ensuring alignment with enterprise governance and compliance frameworks.

• Performance Optimization: Diagnose root causes of complex system bottlenecks, optimize API latency, and ensure high availability across multi-region cloud environments.

Qualifications

Core Requirements:

• GCP Expertise: Proven experience engineering and managing enterprise-grade environments within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (e.g., GKE, IAM, VPCs, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub).

• API Management: Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining API gateways and management tools (preferably Apigee or native GCP API Gateway).

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep proficiency with modern IaC tools, specifically Terraform, to build and manage cloud infrastructure.

• Automation & CI/CD: Strong experience building automated build/release pipelines using tools like GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Cloud Build.

• Modern Networking & Security: Solid foundation in cloud networking (DNS, load balancers, service mesh, TLS, OAuth2, OIDC, and API security baselines).

• Scripting & Languages: Proficiency in languages commonly used for cloud automation and API middleware (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js, or Bash).

Highly Regarded:

• Official GCP Certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or Professional DevOps Engineer).

• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes / GKE) and service mesh architectures (Istio/Anthos).

Additional Information

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. 

Agencies:

We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given.

Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks