The Data Platform Engineer partners with infrastructure, product, and engineering teams to build, operate, and scale reliable data and analytics foundations. This role focuses on operational excellence, reliability, automation, and production stability across batch and real-time systems.
Core Responsibilities
Operations & Reliability
* Lead day-to-day operational management of analytics infrastructure.
* Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of batch and real-time systems.
* Drive zero-downtime deployments through CI/CD and release best practices.
* Own incident management, production debugging, and post-incident reviews.
Infrastructure & Platform Enablement
* Provision, enable, scale, and maintain data, analytics, and ML infrastructure in hybrid cloud.
* Build tools for observability, monitoring, alerting, and self-healing.
* Implement infrastructure-as-code and orchestration frameworks.
* Ensure governance, compliance, and security best practices.
Automation & Efficiency
* Develop self-service tooling to improve engineering productivity.
* Drive cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency initiatives.
Required Qualifications
* Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, Java, or Scala for automation and APIs.
* Strong experience with CI/CD (e.g., GitLab, Spinnaker).
* Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
* Experience with observability tooling (Splunk, Grafana, Datadog).
* Solid knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent).
* Strong understanding of distributed systems and debugging production systems.
* Excellent communication skills and ability to operate independently.
* Experience with analytics and ML stack (Spark, Trino/Pinot, Iceberg, Flink, Airflow, Snowflake, Databricks, MLFlow).
* Knowledge of data governance and compliance controls.
* Experience working in agile, fast-moving environments.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Austin, TX.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $70.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Austin,TX.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Mar 25, 2026.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services
We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
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