Sr. Data Platform Engineer

Description

Job Summary:

The Data Platform team in Avis is a level 3 technology specialist team to roll out new capabilities in to cloud to support data engineers, analysts, and business teams. We help to unlock the full value of data available with in enterprise systems to our partners and internal teams to achieve our business goals. Team is geographically dispersed team and responsible for administration of critical production systems across multi cloud environment. This role does NOT require night shifts but need to have overlapping hours between IST and US east morning hours for proper handholding with stake holders.

We are looking for a talented and passionate senior Cloud engineer with experience in data platform components to join this team. They are expected to provide technical leadership to a group of cloud engineers in the team, evaluate and roll out new solutions quickly with minimal guidance in accordance with recommended best practices and security policies. They play a key role in identifying opportunities for improvement in the current system practices, automate deployments practices and venture into new technical stacks with ease.

This role requires a resourceful individual, a persistent problem solver, and a strong hands-on engineer who can move around various technology stacks with ease. This is a great opportunity to have a big impact as part of a growing team during the ongoing technology and product transformation.

Responsibilities

• Carry out POCs and Roll out new multi cloud solutions with minimal guidance.
• Review Platform Infrastructure components, data warehousing environments and identify opportunities for improvement in terms of operational excellence, security, and cost optimization.
• Provide technical leadership and responsible for team building by quick assimilation of knowledge about new systems being rolled out, documenting, and sharing the same with team members, assist them as required. You need to be an excellent team player.
• Administration of critical data platform components and provide L3 support as needed. Job Requirements
• Overall 8+ years’ experience in IT industry including 4+ years’ experience with AWS platform components.
• Good understanding on the AWS cloud platform capabilities is mandatory.
• Experience rolling out infrastructure as a code, using Terraform/Ansible stacks.
• Very good understanding of Cloud databases and technologies including AWS RDS & Redshift.
• Good knowledge of relational database concepts and SQL skills are needed. • Minimum 2 years of Team lead experience.
• AWS Network & IAM services experience. • Understand network topologies and common network protocols and services with knowledge on trouble shooting.
• Operating Systems: 3+ years of experience in Linux/Unix environment.
• Experience with scripting languages: Python/Shell.
• Experience with AWS data migration services.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and scripted pipelines with focus on Jenkins.
• Experience integrating applications with third party encryption tools like voltage.
• Interpersonal skills to include effective verbal and written communication within team, key leaders, and other departments.
• Ability to understand the big picture and clarity of thoughts to actively contribute to solutioning calls involving multiple teams.

Good to have skills:

• AWS associate level certification or professional certifications.
• Experience with GCP/OCI is preferred.
• Experience with Confluent Kafka cluster administration.
• Distributed system architecture awareness.
• Experience with Tableau and Apache Airflow.
• Experience setting up monitoring and alerting tools like Dynatrace and cloud native logging and monitoring frameworks

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