Role Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join our core platform team. In this role, you will be responsible for building, securing, and automating our enterprise Cloud Platforms on AWS. You will go beyond basic pipeline creation by designing and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and CI/CD frameworks that enable our data teams to operate and scale efficiently.

• Job Responsibilities
• Cloud & Platform Infrastructure (IaC): Deploy and maintain scalable and secure Cloud workspaces for AI enablement on AWS infrastructure (VPC, Private Link, IAM, S3, Lambda, EKS, and Fargate) using Terraform
• Architecture guidance: Provide architectural oversight and technical guidance to engineering teams
• Unity Catalog Implementation: Automate the governance layer, including metastore configuration, external locations, and access controls within Unity Catalog.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure the platform adheres to enterprise security standards by managing implementing cloud infrastructure and data protection automated security controls.
• Workspace Lifecycle Management: Use Terraform for end-to-end workspace provisioning, ensuring consistent setup across Dev, Acc, and Prod environments.
• Governance & Cost Control (Policies): Design and implement policies and guardrails to enforce standards
• Identity & Access Automation: Automate assignment of permissions using Terraform. Manage Service Principals for pipelines and map groups to specific Workspace roles and Unity Catalog grants.
• DevOps & Automation (CI/CD)
• Pipeline Architecture: Oversee GitLab CI/CD pipelines for data and GenAI projects with automated workflows.
• Release Management: Implement branching strategies, code review policies, and environment promotion rules (Dev → Acc → Prod).
• Service Organization & Operations
• Observability: Configure monitoring, alerting, and logging (using system tables or integration with tools like CloudWatch) to ensure platform stability.
• Support & Incident Management: Serve as an escalation point for platform-related incidents.
• Knowledge Sharing: Document best practices and conduct workshops to upskill data engineers on effective platform usage.
• Fin Ops: Optimize resource allocation, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in computer science, software engineering, mathematics, or related field.
• Core cloud competencies, cross-platform technical skills, and ability to think strategically.
• Ability to convert business needs into technical solutions using the AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices.
• Expertise in Cloud networking; Security and Compliance; Automation and DevOps (CI/CD, Jenkins, Gitlab etc.); Containerization (Docker) and Orchestration (Amazon EKS); Monitoring and Logging; and Cloud infrastructure Optimization for optimal Fin Ops.
• 5+ years industry experience in Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or DevOps; 3+ years with AWS in enterprise settings.
• Advanced Terraform skills for managing Cloud infrastructure and AWS resources
• Extensive AWS portfolio knowledge.
• Excellent communication, documentation, mentoring, and collaboration skills.
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