# GCP Cloud Engineer with Teradata

**Company:** [Stafford Gray](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/ijubpNRZg1hKDHZC9ns8cE.md)
**Location:** Lansing, United States
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Contract

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## Description

**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)