Job Role: Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Location: Orlando, FL (Onsite)
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 12+ years of experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer, Data Platform Administrator, or DevOps Engineer, with a strong emphasis on data ecosystem support.
- Hands-on administration experience with modern cloud platforms in particularly AWS.
- Familiarity with modern data stack tools such as Snowflake, Cloudera, DataIKU etc.
- Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Containerization stack such as Docker, and preferably experienced in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins).
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities, strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration, and a proven track record of creating developer-friendly platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, provision, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure cloud environments on AWS, optimized for data-intensive workloads.
- Establish and maintain "guardrails" including IAM, security policies, naming conventions, and resource tagging.
- Enforce operational practices by monitoring, auditing, and optimizing cloud compute (e.g., EC2, EMR, Snowflake) and storage (e.g., S3) to manage costs.
- Build reusable deployment patterns and CI/CD automation to facilitate environment provisioning for the Data Engineering team.
- Manage infrastructure lifecycle using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Monitor platform health, manage alerts, and troubleshoot system-level bottlenecks to ensure high availability for batch and streaming data pipelines.
Data Platform Maintenance
- Administer, patch, and upgrade distributed data processing frameworks and engines (e.g., Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Hadoop).
- Own the database administration lifecycle for cloud-native data stores, including backup/recovery, query optimization, and HA/DR (High Availability/Disaster Recovery).
- Serve as the subject matter expert on cloud operations, mentoring junior engineers and assisting Data engineers with environment access and permissions.
- Partner with Data Admin team, Data Strategy, and Compliance teams to ensure data platforms comply with regulatory and compliance standards.
