DataOps Engineer

About the Role:
We are seeking a highly technical, hands-on Senior DataOps Engineer responsible for the end-to-end reliability, performance, security, and cost-efficiency of our modern data ecosystem. This role serves as the technical guardian of our Snowflake and BigQuery platforms, ensuring seamless data ingestion, robust orchestration, and optimized transformations at scale.

The ideal candidate is not just a user of data platforms and tools, but a deep technical operator and tuner someone who understands underlying architectures and proactively optimizes for performance, scalability, and cloud cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Snowflake & BigQuery Administration

• Performance Optimization: Proactively monitor and tune query performance by identifying bottlenecks and optimizing clustering strategies, search optimization, materialized views, and warehouse configurations.
• Security & Governance: Design, implement, and maintain complex Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models to enforce data security, governance, and least-privilege access.
• Cost Management: Implement resource monitors, warehouse auto-scaling policies, and consumption tracking to optimize cloud spend and maximize ROI.

2. Data Integration & Pipeline Operations

• Data Ingestion: Provision, manage, and monitor high-volume data ingestion pipelines using Fivetran, Informatica, and Rite Sync, ensuring reliability and data freshness.
• Orchestration: Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot complex workflows and DAGs in Apache Airflow to ensure timely and dependable data delivery.
• Transformations: Support and optimize DBT models, ensuring efficient transformations, data quality checks, testing, and documentation.

3. Operational Excellence & Reliability

• Monitoring & Alerting: Implement advanced monitoring and alerting for pipeline failures, data latency, SLA breaches, and platform health.
• Continuous Improvement: Regularly assess and fine-tune ingestion, orchestration, and transformation layers to improve reliability, reduce latency, and enhance performance.
• Technical Collaboration: Act as a senior technical peer, contributing to architecture reviews, design discussions, and deep technical problem-solving with cross-functional teams.