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Role: Cloud Engineer or DevOps Engineer With Trino
Location: New York, USA - Hybrid: 3 Days
Type: Full Time Role (NO C2C/W2/C2H/1099)
Work Authorization: This role is not eligible for company sponsorship now or in future
Experience: 8+ Years
Primary Skillset: TRINO production experience; Python; AWS
  Position Summary
 We are seeking a Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of progressive experience to build and operate enterprise-grade data platforms that power business-critical analytics workloads. This role requires deep technical expertise across distributed query engines (Trino), cloud infrastructure (AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes), deployment automation (CI/CD), and business continuity (disaster recovery). You will be responsible for designing resilient, performant, and cost-effective systems while driving operational excellence through automation, observability, and reliability engineering practices.
Experience Requirements
- 8+ years in Cloud Engineering and 3+ years Trino production experience
- 5+ years CI/CD and 3+ years in Disaster Recovery
- Expertise in Trino query execution, optimization, and troubleshooting
- Expertise in Trino cluster configuration, tuning, scaling, and connector integrations
- Advanced SQL skill such as Query optimization, performance debugging, execution plan analysis.
- Strong Python programming for automation, tooling, and scripts
- Expertise in deployments using Terraform/CloudFormation
- Expertise in monitoring systems using Datadog.
- Experience with concepts such as Data Lakehouse, Iceberg, Data lake.
- AWS Core: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Glue, Athena, RDS
- Production EKS experience with pods, deployments, services and StatefulSets.
- Prior experience with Helm charts, operators, Docker, backup/recovery strategies
- Experienced in GitHub (repositories, PRs, Actions, workflows)
- End-to-end pipeline design with automated testing
- Blue-green/canary deployments, GitOps, automated rollbacks
- Familiarity with Disaster Recovery, backup/restore for distributed systems
- Familiarity with AWS Backup, S3 replication, multi-region architectures
Key Responsibilities
- Optimize Trino query performance and troubleshoot complex issues
- Design, deploy, and maintain Trino clusters on AWS EKS
- Implement automated testing, deployment, and rollback strategies
- Develop Python automation tools and scripts
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
- Design and maintain Disaster Recovery plans and runbooks
- Participate in multi-region failover and automated backup verification
- Monitor systems and document processes