Data Platform Operations Engineer

Bloomington, IN - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Managers Note-
Location: 2-3 days/week in the office for the first few weeks during the onboarding. After that come into the office once a week or so for planning sessions.
On call: 4 person rotation but they might not be on call for at least a year as this is a new role. Very little weekend work.

Primary responsibility is to deploy resources in an Azure subscription Azure data lake. Will coach and assist other teams to do infra as code with Terraform github actions and Azure devops.

This is the deployment not the support. There is a different team that does the data pipelines and support.

Wants someone with a strong analytics background experience with github actions experience creating repositories and versioning. This is an information structures DBA.

Must have understanding of Azure and its resources.

Github actions is more important than Azure. Open to any cloud experience.

Certifications in Azure are a big plus.

Title: Contract-to-Hire: Data Platform Operations Engineer

This pivotal role is responsible for deploying maintaining and monitoring Azure Data Landing Zone resources ensuring optimal performance and reliability across the organization. The Data Platform Operations Engineer updates and maintains documentation and processes to meet regulatory addition this position mentors other team members and provides expert consultation to business partners technical teams and development staff.

in data infrastructure this role safeguards the stability of the Azure Data Landing Zone and the enterprise analytics platform which are essential for secure environments responsive operations and strategic initiatives. The Data Platform Operations Engineer enables seamless analytics workflows accurate reporting and data-driven decision-making by ensuring stable infrastructure for the Data Lake and other cloud related resources. This position ensures compliance minimizes operational risk and supports the delivery of reliable enterprise insights that drive organizational success.

Required Qualifications:

Four (4) year college degree in Computer Science Math Engineering or related field OR three plus (3) years of IT related experience
2 years hands on experience with DevOps
2 years hands on experience deploying services and Infrastructure in Azure public cloud.
2 years hands on experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
2 years experience with Ansible
Strong knowledge of data platforms
Experience performing and documenting in-depth analysis.
Expertise in technical documentation writing and interpreting business documentation
Strong understanding of the LAN and WAN network
Experience with disaster recovery planning
Strong Microsoft tools skills including Outlook Word Excel Visio and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

Hands on experience with Databases (Relational and No-Sql)
Hands on experience with Databricks
Hands on experience with Synapse
Hands on experience with Liquibase
Hands on experience with Azure CLI (az cli)
Hands on experience configuring Azure Monitoring
Experience working in an agile/scrum team.
Administration of Oracle or Microsoft SQL Databases.
Azure cloud certifications
Hands on experience provisioning a HIPAA compliant cloud services.
Hands on experience setting up Azure DevOps Build Release Pipelines in YAML

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.

Managers Note- Location: 2-3 days/week in the office for the first few weeks during the onboarding. After that come into the office once a week or so for planning sessions. On call: 4 person rotation but they might not be on call for at least a year as this is a new role. Very little weekend work. ...

Four (4) year college degree in Computer Science Math Engineering or related field OR three plus (3) years of IT related experience
2 years hands on experience with DevOps
2 years hands on experience deploying services and Infrastructure in Azure public cloud.
2 years hands on experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
2 years experience with Ansible
Strong knowledge of data platforms
Experience performing and documenting in-depth analysis.
Expertise in technical documentation writing and interpreting business documentation
Strong understanding of the LAN and WAN network
Experience with disaster recovery planning
Strong Microsoft tools skills including Outlook Word Excel Visio and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

Hands on experience with Databases (Relational and No-Sql)
Hands on experience with Databricks
Hands on experience with Synapse
Hands on experience with Liquibase
Hands on experience with Azure CLI (az cli)
Hands on experience configuring Azure Monitoring
Experience working in an agile/scrum team.
Administration of Oracle or Microsoft SQL Databases.
Azure cloud certifications
Hands on experience provisioning a HIPAA compliant cloud services.
Hands on experience setting up Azure DevOps Build Release Pipelines in YAML

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.