Data Platform Ops Engineer
Location - Bloomington Ave S MN 2 days a week onsite
- Level: Open to mid-level or senior (must work independently without constant supervision)
Seeking Data Platform Operations Engineer to support and maintain its Azure-based data infrastructure. This role is responsible for deploying monitoring and maintaining Azure Data Landing Zone resources to ensure high availability security and performance.
This position plays a critical role in safeguarding the enterprise analytics platform enabling reliable analytics workflows accurate reporting and data-driven decision making. The engineer will also mentor team members and provide expert consultation to technical teams and business partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Automate the creation deployment and maintenance of data platforms
- Provide primary support for implementing upgrading and maintaining data platform environments
- Optimize system stability resilience and security
- Collaborate with data engineers data product teams and vendors to resolve issues
- Ensure compliance with security standards in partnership with IS&T Security Management
- Debug complex issues and provide analysis for future enhancements
- Proactively maintain efficient and effective systems
- Forecast capacity needs and develop tools to prevent future capacity issues
Required Skills (Must Have)
- 2 years of hands on Azure infrastructure and service deployment
- 2 years using Terraform
- Strong data platform experience and problem solving skills
- Strong experience documenting deployments
- Solid understanding of Azure networking including private endpoints
- Postgres
- GitHub Actions (core future direction; strong experience required)
- Deployment experience with Azure AI Studio
Nice to Have Skills
- Ansible
- NoSQL or SQL experience
- Databricks
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Math Engineering or related field
OR 3 years of relevant IT experience - 2 years of hands-on DevOps experience
- 2 years deploying services and infrastructure in Azure public cloud
- 2 years provisioning infrastructure using Terraform
- 2 years of Ansible experience
- Strong knowledge of GitHub Actions
- Strong understanding of data platforms
- Experience performing and documenting in-depth technical analysis
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
- Expertise in technical documentation and interpreting business requirements
- Strong understanding of LAN and WAN networking
- Experience with disaster recovery planning
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and work outside standard business hours as needed
- Proficiency with Microsoft tools: Outlook Word Excel Visio PowerPoint
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Hands-on experience with Databricks
- Experience with Azure Databases for PostgreSQL
- Experience with Liquibase
- Azure CLI (az) experience
- Experience configuring Azure Monitoring
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Administration of Oracle or Microsoft SQL databases
- Azure cloud certifications
- Experience provisioning HIPAA-compliant cloud services
Data Platform Ops Engineer Location - Bloomington Ave S MN 2 days a week onsite Level: Open to mid-level or senior (must work independently without constant supervision) Seeking Data Platform Operations Engineer to support and maintain its Azure-based data infrastructure. This role is responsibl...
Data Platform Ops Engineer
Location - Bloomington Ave S MN 2 days a week onsite
- Level: Open to mid-level or senior (must work independently without constant supervision)
Seeking Data Platform Operations Engineer to support and maintain its Azure-based data infrastructure. This role is responsible for deploying monitoring and maintaining Azure Data Landing Zone resources to ensure high availability security and performance.
This position plays a critical role in safeguarding the enterprise analytics platform enabling reliable analytics workflows accurate reporting and data-driven decision making. The engineer will also mentor team members and provide expert consultation to technical teams and business partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Automate the creation deployment and maintenance of data platforms
- Provide primary support for implementing upgrading and maintaining data platform environments
- Optimize system stability resilience and security
- Collaborate with data engineers data product teams and vendors to resolve issues
- Ensure compliance with security standards in partnership with IS&T Security Management
- Debug complex issues and provide analysis for future enhancements
- Proactively maintain efficient and effective systems
- Forecast capacity needs and develop tools to prevent future capacity issues
Required Skills (Must Have)
- 2 years of hands on Azure infrastructure and service deployment
- 2 years using Terraform
- Strong data platform experience and problem solving skills
- Strong experience documenting deployments
- Solid understanding of Azure networking including private endpoints
- Postgres
- GitHub Actions (core future direction; strong experience required)
- Deployment experience with Azure AI Studio
Nice to Have Skills
- Ansible
- NoSQL or SQL experience
- Databricks
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Math Engineering or related field
OR 3 years of relevant IT experience - 2 years of hands-on DevOps experience
- 2 years deploying services and infrastructure in Azure public cloud
- 2 years provisioning infrastructure using Terraform
- 2 years of Ansible experience
- Strong knowledge of GitHub Actions
- Strong understanding of data platforms
- Experience performing and documenting in-depth technical analysis
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
- Expertise in technical documentation and interpreting business requirements
- Strong understanding of LAN and WAN networking
- Experience with disaster recovery planning
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and work outside standard business hours as needed
- Proficiency with Microsoft tools: Outlook Word Excel Visio PowerPoint
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Hands-on experience with Databricks
- Experience with Azure Databases for PostgreSQL
- Experience with Liquibase
- Azure CLI (az) experience
- Experience configuring Azure Monitoring
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Administration of Oracle or Microsoft SQL databases
- Azure cloud certifications
- Experience provisioning HIPAA-compliant cloud services
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