Senior Data Engineer – DevOps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, automate, test, and implement enterprise CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitLab and Azure DevOps across various environments.

• Ensure deployment pipelines are secure, auditable, and capable of rollback.

• Create, provision, and manage reusable Infrastructure as Code frameworks for Snowflake, AWS, DBT, and Qlik using Terraform.

• Develop Python scripts and tools for automating infrastructure, managing cloud operations, and deployment workflows.

• Establish integrations between CI/CD systems, cloud platforms, DBT, and Snowflake.

• Implement solutions for monitoring, logging, and observability with tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, and CloudWatch.

• Facilitate proactive alerting, centralized log management, audit compliance, and visibility into the health and reliability of infrastructure.

• Design and automate deployment frameworks for Airflow DAGs, dbt Cloud transformations, data processing jobs, and application components.

• Utilize artifact management, container registries, and blue-green/canary deployment strategies.

• Design and automate strategies for data infrastructure backup and disaster recovery.

• Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.

• Encourage knowledge sharing through mentoring, training sessions, and initiatives for continuous improvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 4 years of experience in DevOps engineering, data technologies, and cloud platforms, OR a High School Diploma or GED with 8 years of relevant experience.

• Extensive experience in developing automated CI/CD frameworks using GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and AWS.

• Practical experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.

• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet.

• Proficient in Python programming, scripting, and automation development.

• Experience in integrating on-premise and cloud applications/tools with AWS services, Snowflake, and DBT.

• Ability to write Ansible playbooks/manifests and manage infrastructure states effectively.

• Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, Glue, and Lake Formation.

• Knowledge of Azure services including VMs, App Services, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, and networking.

• Operational understanding of Snowflake warehouse management, cost optimization, and cloud integration.

• Proficient in Git/GitLab/GitHub version control, branching strategies, and repository management.

• Experience with Linux/Unix system administration and command-line operations.

• Understanding of networking fundamentals including VPCs, subnets, security groups, DNS, and load balancing.

• Relevant cloud and DevOps certifications are desirable.

• Experience in the financial banking sector is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive, carefully crafted, and high-quality benefits program.

• Additional benefits information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.