Senior Data Engineer - DevOps

Overview

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s):
North Carolina, Arizona, Texas and Florida.

We are seeking an experienced Dev Ops Engineer to design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment workflows supporting our data engineering platform. This role focuses on infrastructure as code, configuration management, cloud operations, and enabling data engineers to deploy reliably and rapidly across AWS and Azure environments.

• Design, build, automate, test, deploy enterprise CI/CD deployment pipelines using Git Lab, Azure Dev Ops frameworks across multiple environments ensuring secure, auditable, rollback capabilities.
• Design, provision, and manage reusable and standardized Infrastructure as Code frameworks for Snowflake, AWS, DBT, Qlik infrastructure using Terraform.
• Develop Python scripts and tools for infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and deployment workflows. Build custom integrations between CI/CD systems, cloud platforms, DBT, and Snowflake.
• Implement enterprise monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using Splunk, Dynatrace, Cloud Watch to enable proactive alerting, centralized log management, audit compliance, and real‑time visibility into infrastructure health, system utilization, and operational reliability.
• Design and automate deployment frameworks for Airflow DAGs, dbt Cloud transformations, data processing jobs, and application components, leveraging artifact management, container registries, and blue‑green/canary deployment strategies.
• Design backup and disaster recovery strategies for data infrastructure; automate backup provisioning and testing.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services; promote knowledge sharing through mentoring, training sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Dev Ops engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Dev Ops engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms

• Strong experience developing automated CI/CD frameworks using Git Lab, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, AWS
• Hands‑on with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
• Python programming, scripting, automation development
• Integrating on‑premise and cloud applications/tools with AWS services, Snowflake, DBT
• Configuration Management:
  Ansible and/or Puppet - ability to write playbooks/manifests and manage infrastructure state
• Cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Lake formation) and Azure (VMs, App Services, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, networking)
• Snowflake: operational knowledge of warehouse management, cost optimization, and cloud integration
• Git/Git Lab/Git Hub: version control, branching strategies, and repository management
• Linux/Unix system administration and command‑line proficiency
• Networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, security groups, DNS, load balancing
• Relevant cloud and devops certifications
• Financial banking experience is a plus.

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