GCP Cloud Engineer with Teradata

Overview: State of Michigan engagement staffed through Stafford Gray. The client needs a cloud engineer who can operate in Google Cloud Platform while supporting integration with an existing Teradata data warehouse environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage GCP infrastructure (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, IAM, networking)
• Support integration and data movement between GCP and Teradata systems
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
• Monitor cloud performance, cost, and security compliance
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and data pipeline issues
• Collaborate with data engineering and platform teams on modernization work

Required Qualifications

• Several years of hands on GCP experience
• Direct Teradata experience, ETL or data warehouse integration
• IaC and CI/CD tooling experience
• Strong Python or Bash scripting

Preferred Qualifications

• GCP certification (Associate Cloud Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect)
• State or local government client experience
• Experience migrating off Teradata to a cloud native warehouse (e.g. BigQuery)