Performance & Data Optimization Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Louisiana.

📋 Description

• Enhance database and platform performance across cloud data warehouses and lakes.

• Oversee system health and manage incidents, events, and operational reporting.

• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in queries, pipelines, and resource utilization.

• Analyze and optimize SQL, ETL/ELT, data models, ingestion patterns, and workloads for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

• Establish and uphold SLAs, baselines, dashboards, and automated monitoring with alerting systems.

• Plan for capacity, analyze workloads, and assist in scaling and cost-optimization decisions.

• Collaborate with platform engineers, DBAs, architects, application teams, data governance teams, and data quality teams.

• Maintain access controls, user roles, and identity integrations, including SSO, MFA, and JENIE-based least-privilege enforcement.

• Provide disaster recovery, high availability, fault tolerance, automated failover, and business continuity capabilities.

• Integrate DevSecOps tools and processes with enterprise systems.

• Manage centralized secrets with automated rotation, access logging, and policy enforcement.

• Embed SAST, DAST, SCA, and CSPM tools into CI/CD pipelines.

• Implement continuous 24/7 monitoring for security, performance, and compliance with real-time dashboards.

• Ensure automated SBOM generation and management for deployed artifacts.

• Offer diagnostics, metrics gathering, performance tuning, and canary-release support.

• Conduct automated full-stack health checks.

• Deliver monthly reports on incidents, stability, performance, configurations, ticket volume, and resolution times.

• Contribute to platform performance standards, engineering guidelines, and optimization best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Over 5 years of experience in IT system engineering, development, and programming, with a focus on diagnosing, optimizing, and enhancing system and data-pipeline performance.

• Profound expertise in AWS services covering compute, storage, networking, monitoring, and logging.

• Proficient in Terraform, CloudFormation, and Azure Bicep.

• Familiarity with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic.

• Strong background in incident response and change management.

• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, and ArgoCD.

• Strong scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, and Bash.

• Advanced knowledge of DevSecOps and GitOps practices.

• Hands-on experience in building, testing, and maintaining containerized applications.

• Expertise in version control and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with FinOps, cost modeling, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization.

• Understanding of FedRAMP, NIST, and JISF Rev 5 standards.

• Skilled in log/metric analysis and cloud performance tuning.

• Strong SQL and database performance-tuning capabilities, including ELT/ETL pipeline optimization, SQL refactoring, join tuning, concurrency improvement, and execution-plan tuning.

• Experience with query optimization, indexing, partitioning, clustering, and execution-plan analysis.

• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and distributed data-processing environments.

• Exceptional performance-monitoring and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Must be able to pass a background check to qualify for a position of Public Trust.

• Must be a US Person: Green Card Holder, US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, or US Citizen.

• Preferred experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle.

• Preferred experience in optimizing large-scale analytical workloads.

• Preferred certifications include CDMP, Snowflake SnowPro Advanced, Databricks Certified Data Professional, AWS certifications, Docker Certified Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, DevSecOps, ITIL, AWS SysOps, or Google Cloud DevOps Engineer.

🏝️ Benefits

• AI-driven career tool identifying career progression and learning opportunities.

• Internal mobility team aiding in achieving career objectives.

• Comprehensive medical plan options, including some with Health Savings Accounts.

• Dental and vision plan options available.

• 401(k) plan with company matching contributions.

• Flexible work weeks when possible.

• Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.

• Typically, 15 days of paid leave per calendar year.

• 10 paid holidays annually.

• Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• Short- and long-term disability benefits provided.

• Life insurance coverage.

• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

• Personal accident insurance.

• Critical illness insurance options.

• Business travel and accident insurance coverage.

• Wellness packages available.

• Competitive compensation package.