Senior DevOps Engineer, Data Platform

The opportunity

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Drive data infrastructure strategy and establish standardized patterns for AI/ML workloads, with direct influence on architectural decisions across data and engineering teams
• DataOps Excellence: Create seamless developer experience through self-service capabilities while significantly improving data engineer productivity and pipeline reliability metrics
• Cross-Functional Innovation: Lead collaboration between DevOps, Data Engineering, and ML Operations teams to unify our approach to infrastructure as code and orchestration platforms
• Technology Breadth & Growth: Work across the full DataOps spectrum from pipeline orchestration to AI/ML infrastructure, with clear advancement opportunities as a senior infrastructure engineer
• Strategic Business Impact: Build scalable analytics capabilities that provide direct line of sight between your infrastructure work and business outcomes through reliable, cutting-edge data solutions

What You'll Be Doing

• Design Data-Native Cloud Solutions - Design and implement scalable data infrastructure across multiple environments using Kubernetes, orchestration platforms, and IaC to power our AI, ML, and analytics ecosystem
• Define DataOps Technical Strategy - Shape the technical vision and roadmap for our data infrastructure capabilities, aligning DevOps, Data Engineering, and ML teams around common patterns and practices
• Accelerate Data Engineer Experience - Spearhead improvements to data pipeline deployment, monitoring tools, and self-service capabilities that empower data teams to deliver insights faster with higher reliability
• Engineer Robust Data Platforms - Build and optimize infrastructure that supports diverse data workloads from real-time streaming to batch processing, ensuring performance and cost-effectiveness for critical analytics systems
• Drive DataOps Excellence - Collaborate with engineering leaders across data teams, champion modern infrastructure practices, and mentor team members to elevate how we build, deploy, and operate data systems at scale

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps experience building, shipping, and operating production systems.
• Coding proficiency in at least one language (e.g., Python or TypeScript); able to build production-grade automation and tools.
• Cloud platforms: deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure (core services, networking, IAM).
• Kubernetes: strong end-to-end understanding of Kubernetes as a system (routing/networking, scaling, security, observability, upgrades), with proven experience integrating data-centric components (e.g., Kafka, RDS, BigQuery, Aerospike).
• Infrastructure as Code: design and implement infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation (modular code, reusable patterns, pipeline integration).
• GitOps & CI/CD: practical experience implementing pipelines and advanced delivery using tools such as Argo CD / Argo Rollouts, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Observability: metrics, logs, and traces; actionable alerting and SLOs using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry, or similar.

You might also have

• Data Pipeline Orchestration - Demonstrated success building and optimizing data pipeline deployment using modern tools (Airflow, Prefect, Kubernetes operators) and implementing GitOps practices for data workloads
• Data Engineer Experience Focus - Track record of creating and improving self-service platforms, deployment tools, and monitoring solutions that measurably enhance data engineering team productivity
• Data Infrastructure Deep Knowledge - Extensive experience designing infrastructure for data-intensive workloads including streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis), data processing frameworks (Spark, Flink), storage solutions, and comprehensive observability systems

Additional Information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

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