Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer

OpsWerks is a technical consulting company specializing in operational services for the high-tech industry. We help platform and infrastructure teams operate multi-cloud environments, execute complex migrations, and enable seamless app deployments.

Your Role

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for operating, maintaining, and continuously improving the company’s data platforms running on Kubernetes (On-premise and/or on AWS/GCP) - similar on the DoEKS (Data on EKS) / AIoEKS (AI on EKS) deployment frameworks

• Deploy new releases and configuration changes through GitOps/DevOps 

• Monitor platform and service health using logs, metrics, and observability tools  

• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis and 24x7 operational rotations 

• Improve platform observability, operational tooling/automations, self-service capabilities and reliability practices to reduce recurring issues  

• Investigate & troubleshoot user concerns by either correlating them to system-related issues, breaking integrations and/or user-specific errors/misconfigurations up to recommending/executing resolutions 

• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers 

• Advocate for platform standards, security best practices, and operational excellence 

Your Qualifications

• 3+ years of solid experience supporting production data workloads/platforms (Spark/Airflow/Jupyter) 

• 5+ years of hands-on experience on ETL/ELT pipeline development & data transformations (Python/Java & SQL) 

• Practical proficiency in Kubernetes environments including Cloud-provider managed Kubernetes flavors (AWS-EKS/GCP-GKE)

• Comprehensive knowledge on Linux environments, microservice architectures and service communication patterns

• Strong troubleshooting fundamentals such as application crashes, resource contentions, service latency, and scaling behavior 

• Well-rounded competency in analyzing logs, metrics, monitoring systems, and service KPIs  

Plus points if you have:

• Exposure in other Data/AI platforms such as Flink, Trino, Druid and Ray.IO 

• Hands-on experience with automation or scripting (Bash, Python) 

• Kubernetes or Data certifications (CKAD, AWS Certified Data Engineer)