Data Platform Operations Engineer

Responsibilities

• Automates the creation and maintenance of data platforms.
• Provides primary support for implementing, upgrading, and maintaining data platform environments.
• Implement solutions to optimize system stability, resilience, and security.
• Collaborates with data engineers, data product teams, and vendors to report and resolve problems.
• Ensures compliance of all security standards in collaboration with IS&T Security Management.
• Debugs problematic issues, provide analysis for future enhancements and development; proactively maintaining effective and efficient systems.
• Forecasts and analyzes future capacity needs and develops tools and utilities to mitigate future capacity issues.

Qualifications

• Four (4) year college degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, or related field OR three plus (3+) years of IT related experience
• Two (2) years' hands on experience with DevOps
• Two (2) years' hands on experience deploying services and Infrastructure in Azure public cloud.
• Two (2) years' hands on experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
• Two (2) years' experience with Ansible
• Strong knowledge of GitHub Actions
• Strong knowledge of data platforms
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience performing and documenting in-depth analysis
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
• Expertise in technical documentation writing and interpreting business documentation
• Strong understanding of the LAN and WAN network
• Experience with disaster recovery planning
• Flexible to work outside standard business hours, including weekends, with participation in an on-call rotation
• Strong Microsoft tools skills, including Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint