102728 – SSR Data Platform Admin
Summary
We are seeking a semi-senior Data Platform Admin focused on Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This hands-on role blends platform administration and engineering to stabilize and scale a data platform through automation and reliable operational practices.
You will work primarily with Terraform and contribute using SQL and Python to improve deployment frameworks, CI/CD components, and user identity/persona configurations. This is an opportunity to influence how infrastructure and deployment processes are automated while providing timely platform support.
Responsibilities
- Manage and resolve platform tickets related to data infrastructure and user access.
- Design and maintain IaC modules and templates using Terraform.
- Develop and enhance CI/CD framework components to support data platform deployments.
- Write and maintain SQL queries and scripts to support troubleshooting and automation.
- Build Python utilities and scripts to integrate with deployment frameworks and tooling.
- Configure and manage user ID personas, permissions, and role mappings for platform access.
- Collaborate with data engineers and stakeholders to prioritize platform fixes and enhancements.
- Document operational procedures, runbooks, and deployment patterns for the team.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in platform or infrastructure engineering or administration.
- Strong practical experience with Terraform for IaC development and maintenance, including the creation or modification of reusable infrastructure modules.
- Proficient in SQL with experience writing queries for platform support and analysis.
- Solid Python experience for scripting, automation, and framework support.
- Experience handling ticket queues and providing timely operational support.
- Experience working with Databricks environments or integrations.
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and experience contributing to CI/CD frameworks.
- Comfortable performing both engineering work and administrative platform tasks.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to work with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to prioritize operational requests and engineering improvements in a changing platform environment.
- Experience configuring or supporting identities, permissions, roles, or access-control mappings in a platform environment.