Senior Analytics Platform Engineer

Job Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer you will design deploy and maintain data platforms predominantly concentrating on Databricks. This role involves both creative and analytical skills to solve complex problems and create efficient reliable solutions. You will use your expertise in requirements analysis programming languages development methodologies and tools to build and deliver platforms that meet the needs of businesses organizations or end-users. You will work with other engineers product managers and technical leadsyou will helpto design systems determine functional and non-functionalneedsrequirementsand implement them accordingly. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.

What will you do in this role

• Participate in definingthe platformstandards and architecture patterns primarily for the enterprise-wide implementation of Databricks platform.

• Author review and maintain Terraform modules and state management for multiaccount/multienvironment deployments.

• Implement reusable and repeatable environment provisioning and configuration

• Createand maintain clear documentation: platform Design Infrastructure as Code patterns operational runbooks best practicesregarding coding security and compliance.

• Develop verify test document amend and refactor CI/CD pipelines and the platform configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams.

• Integrate platform with data governance tooling (catalogs lineage access controls).

• Utilize system life cycle working practices for platform components delivery. Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcome.

• Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business infrastructure or functional areas. Participate in evaluation of alternative solutions and approaches to the current architecture and the trade-offs in cost performance and scalability.

• Work within a matrix organizational structure reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.

• Participate in planning execution and delivery of the platform ensuring alignment with both functional product and company goals.

What should you have

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science or any Technology stream.

• 7 years of hands-on experience working with IaC Terraform SQL and databases Analytics platforms DevOps tools and REST API.

• Expertise in Databricks (Architect level).

• Excellent knowledge of Databricks as a user and architect incl. network patters of how it is deployed as SaaS solution.

• Excellent Cloud knowledge ideally AWS certified with good understanding ofAWS core service like EC2 EKS S3 RDS VPC networking Security Groups subnets IAM roles/policiesRoute 53 Transit Gateways Load Balancing Lambda KMS.

• Deep knowledge of DevOps tools and practices (like GitHub GitHub Actions) for code versioning and deployment.

• Understanding modern product development principles Agile test driven development UX design thinking.

• Knowledge of development practices such as infrastructure observability continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD containerization.

• Proficiency with other programming languages (Scala R Java) is a nice to have.

• Some experience with networking principles is necessary.

• Experience with Trino Redshift Grafana is a huge benefit.

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