AWS Data Platform Engineer

Desired Competencies

• Overall 5+ years experience in IT industry including 3+ years experience with AWS platform components.
• Good understanding on the AWS cloud platform capabilities is mandatory.
• Experience rolling out infrastructure as a code, using Terraform/Ansible stacks.
• Very good understanding of Cloud databases and technologies including AWS RDS & Redshift.
• Good knowledge of relational database concepts and SQL skills are needed.
• AWS IAM services experience.
• Operating Systems: 2+ years of experience in Linux/Unix environment.
• Experience with scripting languages: Python/Shell.
• Experience with AWS data migration services.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and scripted pipelines with focus on Jenkins.
• Experience integrating applications with third party encryption tools like voltage.
• Interpersonal skills to include effective verbal and written communication within team, key leaders, and other departments.

Good-to-Have

• AWS associate level certification or professional certifications.
• Experience with GCP/OCI is preferred.
• Experience with Confluent Kafka cluster administration.
• Distributed system architecture awareness.
• Experience with Tableau and Apache Airflow.
• Experience setting up monitoring and alerting tools like Dynatrace and cloud
• native logging and monitoring frameworks.

Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role

• Carry out POCs and Roll out new multi cloud solutions with minimal guidance.
• Review Platform Infrastructure components, data warehousing environments and identify opportunities for
• improvement in terms of operational excellence, security, and cost optimization.
• Administration of critical data platform components and provide L3 support as needed.
• Quick assimilation of knowledge about new systems being rolled out, documenting, and sharing the same with
• team members, assist them as required. Should be an excellent team player.