GCP Cloud Engineer - IAM & Data Platform

Join Us at a Defining Moment

At Intelligen, we’re building something different. Over the past three years, we’ve evolved from a bold startup to a trusted partner for some of Australia’s most complex data transformations. We’ve helped organizations move from legacy to modern platforms, embedded governance into decision-making, and brought AI into the hands of the business, responsibly and at speed.

But we’re just getting started. As we scale into our next phase of growth, we’re looking for experienced technology professionals who don’t just want to deliver great solutions – but want to help shape the future of data and AI capability across Australia & the Asia-Pacific region.

We’re looking for an experienced GCP Platform Engineer to join our team and support the delivery of secure, governed and scalable Google Cloud environments for our clients.

About the Role

This is a hands-on GCP engineering role focused on improving and remediating access controls across an existing production data environment. You will assess current IAM and BigQuery permissions, identify excessive or legacy access, and safely implement least-privilege controls without disrupting existing workloads.

We need someone who has personally fixed GCP access-control problems in an existing production environment.

You’ll be responsible for establishing and managing the environments, permissions, policies and controls that allow data teams to work securely and effectively within Google Cloud.

While you’ll work closely with data engineers and data platform teams, this isn’t a traditional Data Engineer role. Your focus will be on the environment in which those teams operate, establishing the rules, access models, security controls and configuration standards that underpin a well-governed data platform.

A key part of the role is being able to bring practical GCP experience to the table. We’re looking for someone who can confidently diagnose issues, guide engineers through configuration challenges and recommend the right approach rather than needing to learn the fundamentals on the job.

You’ll initially support a major digital health client operating within a complex Google Cloud and data environment, with opportunities to contribute across Intelligen’s broader cloud, data and AI portfolio.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement GCP access-control and governance frameworks, including Google IAM, Google Groups, roles and permissions.
• Establish and administer role-based access control (RBAC) across Google Cloud and BigQuery environments.
• Review and remediate existing GCP IAM permissions, including overly broad or legacy access.
• Manage and remediate service accounts, permissions and static credentials.
• Implement least-privilege access for users, groups and workloads.
• Troubleshoot GCP/BigQuery access issues and guide engineers through remediation.
• Safely remove access while understanding dependencies and avoiding disruption to production workloads.
• Manage access configuration through Terraform/IaC and ensure deployed permissions match the intended access model.
• Implement/manage BigQuery security controls such as dataset permissions, authorized views, policy tags, masking and row/column-level controls, where appropriate.
• Support controlled production implementation, testing, rollback and handover.

You have strong, recent hands-on commercial GCP engineering experience and have personally administered IAM and access controls in production environments.

Must-haves include:

• 5+ years’ experience in cloud engineering, cloud platform administration, data engineering or a closely related technical role.
• Remediating existing excessive or inappropriate access
• Strong hands-on experience working within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments.
• Demonstrated experience administering GCP accounts, environments, permissions and roles.
• Strong knowledge of Google IAM, Google Groups and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Practical experience configuring permissions and access within BigQuery.
• Experience implementing policy tags, masking and sensitive-data controls within Google Cloud.
• Understanding of least-privilege principles and experience managing service accounts, credentials and access permissions.
• Strong troubleshooting capability – you can diagnose configuration and permission issues and confidently guide others through resolving them.
• Ability to work directly with engineers and stakeholders, communicate technical concepts clearly and provide practical guidance based on previous experience.

It would be great if you also bring:

• Experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code / configuration-as-code technology. Terraform experience is preferred, but strong experience with comparable tooling is also valuable.
• Experience with dbt, including grants, permissions and environment-specific deployment patterns.
• A background in data engineering, analytics engineering or modern data platforms.
• Experience with platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake or other modern cloud data technologies.
• Experience tracing and migrating scheduled queries, reporting dependencies and downstream data consumers.
• Familiarity with Sigma access models and Google Sheets integrations.
• Experience across multiple cloud environments, particularly AWS or Azure in addition to GCP.
• Experience working in consulting, client-facing or complex enterprise delivery environments.

Formal GCP certifications are welcome but not required. This role requires hands-on implementation experience. It is not primarily a governance strategy or architecture role, we need someone comfortable personally configuring, troubleshooting and remediating GCP access controls rather than handing implementation to another engineering or deployment team.

WHY INTELLIGEN?

We're not just delivering AI and data projects. We're humanizing them. That means we care deeply about the how, not just the what. We value curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. We look for people who are driven to build a business, get curious, and offer opinions and ideas.

You'll join a team that's smart, kind, and ambitious. You'll have real influence in your projects, your practice, and the broader business. And as we grow, so will you.

We’re not just delivering AI and data projects, we’re humanizing them. That means we care deeply about the how, not just the what. We value curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. We look for people who are driven to build a business, get curious, and offer up their opinions and ideas.

As well as:

• Work From Home - Flexible hours
• Training & Development
• Free Food & Snacks
• Many socials and community groups
• Opportunity to drive projects that are of interest to you!

You’ll work with a team that’s smart, kind, and ambitious. You’ll have real influence in your projects, your practice, and our business. And as we grow, so will you.