MOREAN
Senior DevOps Engineer
MOREANArgentina11 days ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
We are seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Data and Analytics Platform team, driving the design and implementation of our next-generation cloud-based, streaming Data Mesh platform. This role is pivotal for enabling teams to create scalable, data-driven products and advancing our application modernization strategy.

Design and Implement Cloud Infrastructure: Architect and deploy scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to support our Data Mesh platform. Experience with major cloud providers (AWS/Azure) and modern IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) is essential.

Build Automation Pipelines: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data products, ensuring reliable deployment, testing, and monitoring of data infrastructure and applications. Experience with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions is required.

Implement Platform Observability: Design and deploy comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions across the data platform. Experience with tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar technologies is crucial.

Enable Self-Service Infrastructure:

  • Develop automated provisioning systems for data infrastructure
  • Create and maintain infrastructure templates and patterns
  • Implement GitOps workflows for infrastructure management
  • Build developer portals and self-service tooling

Security and Compliance Automation:

  • Implement security controls and compliance checks as code
  • Automate security scanning and vulnerability management
  • Design and implement IAM and access management solutions
  • Maintain audit trails and compliance reporting automation

Performance Optimization:

  • Monitor and optimize platform performance
  • Implement auto-scaling solutions design for high availability and disaster recovery
  • Optimize cost through infrastructure efficiency

Lead Platform Re-Architecture:

  • Transform our existing data platform architecture to align with Data Mesh principles
  • Design and implement our Apache Iceberg adoption strategy, enabling ACID transactions and time travel capabilities
  • Create standardized patterns for teams to effectively adopt and optimize Iceberg tables

Drive Release Excellence:

  • Establish automated release processes that balance agility with platform stability
  • Build deployment frameworks with comprehensive validation, monitoring, and rollback capabilities
  • Implement coordinated release strategies across distributed domains

Enable Technical Success:

  • Design reference architectures and implementation patterns for domain teams
  • Lead technical design reviews and architecture governance
  • Provide technical guidance during the transition to Data Mesh architecture

What We’re Looking For

8+ years of experience in DevOps/Platform Engineering roles within a data operations team

Cloud & Infrastructure:

  • Extensive experience with AWS, particularly EKS and EKS Anywhere
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Strong background in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt
  • Experience with GitOps practices using ArgoCD
  • Knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
  • Strong knowledge of logging, monitoring, APM tracing and alerting tools (ELK, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

Development & Engineering:

  • Proficient in Java development and JVM optimization
  • Experience with build tools (Maven/Gradle) and dependency management
  • Strong background in unit testing frameworks and testing practices
  • Expertise in Git version control and collaborative development
  • Experience with Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams
  • Background in monitoring and performance optimization for Java applications

CI/CD & Automation:

  • Experience designing and managing Jenkins/Github/Gitlab pipelines
  • Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash)
  • Understanding of DevOps practices and automation principles

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with data mesh or similar distributed data architectures
  • Relevant cloud certifications
  • Experience building developer platforms or portals
  • Background in DataOps practices

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