Job#: 3028521 Job Description: AWS Lead Plateform Engineer
Location: Plano, Texas (Hybrid onsite 2 days a week)
Employment Type: Contract to Perm
Role Overview
We are seeking a Lead DevOps/Platform Engineer to drive the design, automation, and reliability of a modern data and analytics platform. This role will focus on building and managing scalable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure. The position involves working at the intersection of platform engineering and data operations, enabling seamless deployment, monitoring, and governance of data and analytics solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role without people management responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure and platform services across AWS, Datameer, and Tableau.
- Administer the AWS platform, supporting all services used for ETL and data pipelines.
- Finops expreince
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data and analytics applications to ensure reliable, automated deployments.
- Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Provide platform tooling support for applications including Datameer and Tableau, including license renewals and performance diagnostics.
- Ensure platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response practices.
- Optimize performance, scalability, and cost across cloud environments, including monitoring AWS spend and recommending optimizations.
- Implement security best practices, including identity management, data protection, and compliance controls.
- Automate operational processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
- Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to enable efficient data workflows and platform usage.
Required Qualifications
Education: A Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field is required.
Experience: A minimum of 5+ years of DevOps or platform engineering experience is required.
Technical Skills:- Strong experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, and VPC.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience managing and supporting analytics platforms such as Airflow, Datameer, and Tableau.
- Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with scripting languages such as PySpark, Python, or Bash.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture principles.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with data platform ecosystems and integration with data warehouses like Snowflake or Redshift.
- Familiarity with data pipeline orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
- Experience implementing DevOps practices for BI and analytics tools, especially Tableau.
- Knowledge of Datameer platform administration, optimization, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with secrets management tools (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault).
- Experience implementing security and compliance frameworks in cloud environments.
- Familiarity with cost optimization strategies for cloud infrastructure.
- Experience working in retail, e-commerce, or consumer-facing environments.
- Exposure to AI/ML platform deployment and MLOps practices.
Compensation & Benefits
$70-80hr w2
This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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