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# Data Platform Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** D. R. Horton
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** OpenTofu, Microsoft Access, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Information Systems, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Github, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Windows PowerShell, Reliability Engineering, DataOps, Data Streaming, Datadog, Cloud Platform System, Large Language Models, Snowflake, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Golang
- **Published:** October 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://drhorton.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=2605442

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
 * 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, DataOps, cloud infrastructure, database/platform administration, or related experience
 * Strong automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Go, or comparable languages and infrastructure-as-code tools
 * Experience with observability, incident management, CI/CD, cloud security, reliability engineering, and production operations
 * Working knowledge of modern data platforms and distributed systems.
 * Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment
 * Build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities, * Experience with Snowflake, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Terraform/OpenTofu, Datadog/OpenTelemetry, Kafka or Azure Event Hubs and streaming platforms, Airflow/Dagster-class orchestration, LLM and AI workload observability, or comparable technologies is preferred
 * Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business is a plus
 * Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments is preferred
 * Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up is a plus

## Description

* Automate platform provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, health checks, and remediation using code and infrastructure-as-code
 * Define and operate SLIs, SLOs, service tiers, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement practices
 * Implement observability across data pipelines, platform services, workloads, APIs, and AI services.
 * Improve platform security, access, secrets management, resilience, disaster recovery, capacity, and performance
 * Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability and operability into new products before production launch
 * Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate
 * Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
 * Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
 * Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
 * Ability to travel overnight