Senior Infrastructure Engineer – GCP / Dataproc

6-month contract | Remote in NA | C2C

We’re working with a major media and entertainment company looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join their Infrastructure team on a 6-month contract.

The primary focus of the role is a Dataproc 2.3 to 3.0 upgrade , alongside remediation of infrastructure security findings across their GCP setting.

Responsibilities

- Lead the upgrade of Google Cloud Dataproc from version 2.3 to 3.0 .
- Assess Dataproc version compatibility and define the infrastructure changes required to support the upgrade.
- Manage Dataproc cluster configuration, including initialization scripts and platform configuration.
- Test upgrade paths and validate workloads across Dataproc versions.
- Develop and maintain Dataproc plugins where required.
- Identify and resolve compatibility issues arising from Dataproc version changes.
- Investigate and remediate infrastructure security findings, prioritising risks and coordinating fixes.
- Implement infrastructure changes using Terraform and/or AWS CDK .




- Coordinate testing and validation with adjacent engineering teams and partners.
- Plan and manage rollout windows across multiple teams.
- Ensure infrastructure changes are documented, auditable and reproducible.

Required experience
- Strong hands-on experience with GCP and Dataproc in a production environment.
- Experience managing Dataproc versions, cluster configuration and upgrade paths.
- Experience with Dataproc initialization scripts and/or plugin development.
- Strong understanding of compatibility testing across platform versions.
- Terraform and/or infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Experience identifying, triaging and remediating infrastructure security findings.
- Experience coordinating infrastructure changes across multiple engineering teams.
- Comfortable independently owning infrastructure work from assessment through testing and production rollout.

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