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)