Principal AWS Data Engineer Full time
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Job Summary
Principal AWS Data Engineer - Full time
About the Role
We are seeking a Principal AWS Data Engineer to join our Managed Services Team and take ownership of supporting diverse client environments. This role focuses on maintaining triaging and improving a variety of customer systems from custom-built applications to modern cloud solutions across multiple industries and technology stacks.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineer who thrives in dynamic multi-technology environments and has a proven track record of troubleshooting performance tuning and driving operational excellence. This is a hands-on and client-facing position ideal for someone who can rapidly assess unfamiliar systems deliver fixes and provide technical leadership in a consulting setting.
Key Responsibilities
Required Skills & Experience
Preferred Qualifications
Why Join Us
About the Role
We are seeking a Principal AWS Data Engineer to join our Managed Services Team and take ownership of supporting diverse client environments. This role focuses on maintaining triaging and improving a variety of customer systems from custom-built applications to modern cloud solutions across multiple industries and technology stacks.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineer who thrives in dynamic multi-technology environments and has a proven track record of troubleshooting performance tuning and driving operational excellence. This is a hands-on and client-facing position ideal for someone who can rapidly assess unfamiliar systems deliver fixes and provide technical leadership in a consulting setting.
Key Responsibilities
- Client Environment Support Serve as a primary point of contact for production support triage and incident resolution across diverse client systems.
- Bugfixing & Maintenance Perform root cause analysis implement bug fixes and ensure long-term stability of customer applications.
- Cross-Technology Expertise Work across a wide range of technologies such Ruby on Rails cloud-native applications and automation tools.
- Operational Leadership Establish and refine monitoring alerting and incident response practices.
- Collaboration Partner with customer teams and internal engineers to identify improvements and streamline operations.
- Maintenance Windows Participate in planned weekend maintenance activities as part of a rotating schedule.
- Knowledge Transfer & Documentation Ensure systems are well-documented and that knowledge is shared within the team.
- Adaptability Continuously learn and integrate new tools platforms and technologies used across client environments.
Required Skills & Experience
- Required to provide support during S2 shift (12.30pm IST - 9.30pmIST)
- 5 years of experience in Data Science Database Administration Machine Learning or Data Engineering roles with at least 2 years supporting production environments
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across application infrastructure and networking layers.
- Experience with Data Engineer tools on AWS: Extract-Transform-Load Machine Learning AWS Lambda
- Strong scripting or automation experience (e.g. Python Bash PowerShell).
- Excellent communication and client-facing skills for working in a consulting environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in managed services or consulting environments with multiple concurrent clients.
- Familiarity with a broad range of database technologies (Oracle DB SQL Server Postgres MongoDB etc.).
- Experience improving legacy systems for better reliability cost optimization or scalability.
Why Join Us
- Diverse Technology Exposure Support a wide range of tools frameworks and cloud platforms.
- Impactful Role Keep mission-critical client systems operational and evolving.
- Global Team Culture Work with experts across multiple time zones and technology domains.
- Professional Growth Gain experience across industries tools and modern automation practices.
- Competitive Compensation Principal-level rates based on skills and experience with shift differential for overnight work.
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About Company
For over 25 years, Centroid has migrated and managed complex workloads in the Cloud to enable our customers’ successful transformation journey.
