Senior Data Platform Engineer

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Remote from LATAM; open to talent anywhere in LATAM, US Central Time (CT) overlap (6+ hours)ContractSenior
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Languages
All interviews, technical documentation, daily team syncs, and operational communications will be conducted in English.
Experience
3+ years of hands-on, senior-level experience in production data platform engineering
Required Skills
AWSPythonSQLBashSnowflakeDevOpsTerraform

Requirements

  • Have 3+ years of hands-on, senior-level experience in production data platform engineering with a DevOps or Platform Engineering orientation.
  • Demonstrate strong programming proficiency in Python, Bash shell scripting, and advanced SQL.
  • Have production operational or DevOps experience with both Snowflake and Confluent/Kafka, with deep expertise in one and working operational knowledge of the other.
  • Have AWS experience alongside Snowflake and/or Confluent/Kafka expertise.
  • Have experience operating, deploying, and migrating production-grade data pipelines across development, staging, and production tiers.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in least-privilege security architectures, enterprise change control, secure secrets management, and audited deployment practices.
  • Have production debugging and incident-handling skills and experience authoring runbooks.
  • Be able to perform all development work within an enterprise-provisioned AWS WorkSpaces virtual desktop environment.
  • Verify reliable network latency and connectivity to an AWS WorkSpace region by completing the official health check and submitting a screenshot of passing results with the profile submission.
  • Overlap with US Central Time business hours for at least 6 hours during a standard 8-hour workday.
  • Conduct interviews, technical documentation, team syncs, and operational communications in English.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and execute migration of data platform workloads, pipelines, and storage from legacy infrastructure to enterprise cloud infrastructure.
  • Migrate workloads and infrastructure to AWS us-east-2, meeting cross-network connectivity, security, and deployment standards.
  • Modernize Hadoop, Hive, and Airflow batch ecosystems toward Snowflake, Confluent Kafka, AWS-managed services, and enterprise platform standards.
  • Implement governed, secure data access for downstream systems and business consumers, following compliance and least-privilege principles.
  • Operate, maintain, and monitor production and staging environments across Snowflake, Confluent Kafka, and AWS.
  • Use Terraform and GitLab CI/CD to codify, audit, and automate configurations, platform changes, and environment setups.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call incident response and root cause analyses, and author operational runbooks and migration documentation.
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