- Where
- Lansing, Michigan, United States
- Level
- Mid
Location: Lansing, MI, Hybrid, onsite two days a week
Contract type: 1099 contract
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
Requirements
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)