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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer - **Company:** Rocket Companies - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $149,000.0 - $318,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Relational Databases, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Data Store, Identity and Access Management, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle (Applications), Migration Manager, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Enterprise Data Management, Data Logging, Snowflake, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Hardware Infrastructure, Cloud Migration, Cloud Optimization, Cloudwatch, Amazon Redshift - **Published:** May 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4722500992dc26ee ## About the Role Do you have experience in Systems engineering?, * 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, cloud engineering, data infrastructure, database engineering, platform engineering, or related infrastructure roles. * Expert-level experience with AWS and enterprise cloud infrastructure patterns. * Expert-level understanding of database and data platform technologies, including relational databases, data warehouses, distributed data systems, storage, backup/recovery, replication, performance, and operational support. * Experience with on-premise to cloud migration programs, including technical discovery, dependency mapping, migration planning, validation, cutover support, and operational readiness. * Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, logging, incident response, change management, resiliency, disaster recovery, and production operations. * Experience working with security, compliance, risk, audit, and infrastructure standards in enterprise environments. * Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical findings, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to both technical and executive audiences., * Experience in financial services, mortgage, banking, lending, insurance, or other regulated enterprise environments. * Experience with data platform technologies such as Snowflake, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, Aurora, Cassandra, Kafka, or similar technologies. * Deep experience with AWS services and patterns including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC networking, FSx, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, backup/recovery, security logging, and enterprise account governance. * Experience leading or supporting multiple cloud migrations, data platform transformations, or large-scale infrastructure modernization efforts. * Experience with technical integration work related to mergers, acquisitions, or affiliated business environments. * Experience defining infrastructure standards, operational maturity models, platform governance mechanisms, or engineering best practices. * Experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, platform consolidation, or infrastructure efficiency programs. * Experience improving data access controls, data flow visibility, lineage, auditability, and operational controls across enterprise data platforms. ## Description * Partner with technical program leadership to assess, modernize, and improve enterprise data infrastructure environments. * Lead technical discovery, dependency mapping, architecture reviews, migration readiness assessments, and operational readiness planning to identify technical gaps, operational risks, reliability concerns, compliance gaps, and modernization opportunities. * Define clear technical recommendations and practical roadmaps that improve reliability, security, scalability, observability, and operational maturity. * Partner with engineering teams to support migration and modernization efforts (involving on-premise infrastructure, AWS, Snowflake, and related enterprise data platforms) to move infrastructure and data platforms into a more predictable, measurable, and supportable state. * Establish standards and best practices for monitoring, alerting, logging, backup/recovery, patching, access controls, data movement, service ownership, and production support. * Provide senior technical judgment, mentorship, and hands-on leadership to help teams make durable improvements across complex infrastructure and data environments., This role may include participation in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure service reliability. On-call responsibilities may include coverage during nights and weekends. 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