Senior Data Platform Engineer

The Senior Data Platform Engineer role is responsible for designing, building, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and maintaining business intelligence platforms within the current technology environment. The role involves analyzing complex technical problems, developing appropriate solutions to maintain the overall integrity of the platform, including operating systems, hardware and software infrastructure that are critical to the company's user populace and application environments. They collaborate with other IT professionals such as Data Analysis, Application, Architect, and Database Engineers to ensure that all components of the platform are working efficiently, securely, and resiliently. The Senior Data Platform Engineer uses their extensive knowledge of both traditional and modern platforms to ensure high performance and reliability of the company's infrastructure, including both cloud and on-premises systems, in support of DevOps efforts and general business and IT objectives.

• Maintain the platform hardware, software, and network requirements in alignment with business needs and organizational standards defined
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise to continuously improve platforms in alignment with application goals
• Manage and configure DevOps tools (such as API Gateway, Teraform) to support processes as per organizational needs
• Collaborate with DevOps engineering and production team to update, troubleshoot and maintain platforms and environments to bring new features and services into production
• Identify, prioritize, implement and maintain automated and orchestrated fulfillment mechanisms to optimize delivery of key platform services
• Coordinate the tasks of other teams that work within the target platform to ensure smooth operations
• Identify and mitigate security threats to comply with a strict security compliance
• Develop and implement security and resiliency policies, standards, and procedures to protect the infrastructure and ensure compliance with regulations
• Produce high-level design documentation where required
• Conduct technical research regarding user requests for new/modified systems or problem resolution
• Manage vendor relationships and discussions related to design docs, platform changes, and other modifications, as needed

This role is not remote/ hybrid. This role will report to our headquarters office in Cleveland, OH.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa. Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

Must be eighteen years or older

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field. In lieu of a degree, at least 7 years of experience in the role of Platform Engineer or related position

Preferred

• Azure Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer preferred

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

Required

• 4-6+ years of experience in platform engineering and infrastructure components
• Experience in automated interaction with physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure
• Experience in managing and maintaining cloud-based environments such as Azure, GCP, or AWS
• Experience with monitoring and log management tools such as SumoLogic, Graphana, and Application Insights
• Experience in developing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies
• Excellent scripting experience in languages such as Python, PowerShell, and Bash
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Ansible, and Terraform
  
  
  
  • Technical Skills
    
    
    
    • Programming Languages
    • Cloud Technologies & Platforms
    • Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
    • DevOps Methodology
    • Software Packaging and Deployment Procedures
    • Operating Systems
    • Network Operations, Configuration, & Services
    • Containerization
    • Monitoring and Logging
    • Integration Technology
    
    
  
  

Preferred

• Platform Operations & Reliability
  
  
  
  • Experience owning production platforms end-to-end, including uptime, performance, and operational stability
  • Experience implementing backup, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies
  • Experience implementing or enforcing platform security baselines
  • Vulnerability and patch management
  • Experience implementing budgets, quotas, and cost guardrails at the platform
  • Cloud platform networking concepts
  • Familiarity with GitOps, policy-as-code, or compliance-as-code patterns
  
  
• Databricks (Strong Plus)
  
  
  
  • Hands-on experience administering Databricks workspaces, clusters, and jobs
  • Experience with Databricks performance tuning and cost optimization.
  • Familiarity integrating Databricks with enterprise IAM, networking, and downstream data platforms
  
  
• Developer Enablement
  
  
  
  • Experience creating templates, starter kits, and reference architectures
  • Strong documentation and communication skills, including writing how-tos and operational guides
  • Experience running design reviews, office hours, or solution advisory sessions