Data Platform Ops Engineer

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., * 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

• Bachelor's 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