Lumen Axis ยท 17 hours ago
Senior DataOps Engineer
United States
Contract
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expLumen Axis is seeking a highly technical, hands-on Senior DataOps Engineer responsible for the end-to-end reliability, performance, security, and cost-efficiency of their modern data ecosystem. This role involves ensuring seamless data ingestion, robust orchestration, and optimized transformations at scale, particularly within the Snowflake and BigQuery platforms.
Information Technology & Services
No H1B
Hiring Manager
Anant Kumar
Responsibilities
Snowflake & BigQuery Administration
Performance Optimization: Proactively monitor and tune query performance by identifying bottlenecks and optimizing clustering strategies, search optimization, materialized views, and warehouse configurations
Security & Governance: Design, implement, and maintain complex Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models to enforce data security, governance, and least-privilege access
Cost Management: Implement resource monitors, warehouse auto-scaling policies, and consumption tracking to optimize cloud spend and maximize ROI
Data Integration & Pipeline Operations
Data Ingestion: Provision, manage, and monitor high-volume data ingestion pipelines using Fivetran, Informatica, and Rite Sync, ensuring reliability and data freshness
Orchestration: Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot complex workflows and DAGs in Apache Airflow to ensure timely and dependable data delivery
Transformations: Support and optimize DBT models, ensuring efficient transformations, data quality checks, testing, and documentation
Operational Excellence & Reliability
Monitoring & Alerting: Implement advanced monitoring and alerting for pipeline failures, data latency, SLA breaches, and platform health
Continuous Improvement: Regularly assess and fine-tune ingestion, orchestration, and transformation layers to improve reliability, reduce latency, and enhance performance
Technical Collaboration: Act as a senior technical peer, contributing to architecture reviews, design discussions, and deep technical problem-solving with cross-functional teams
Qualification
Required
Strong hands-on experience administering Snowflake and/or BigQuery in production environments
Deep understanding of query optimization, warehouse sizing, and cost controls
Proven experience with Apache Airflow, DBT, and modern ELT/ETL tools
Experience operating and monitoring data ingestion platforms such as Fivetran and Informatica
Strong knowledge of data security, RBAC, and governance models
Ability to troubleshoot complex data pipeline and platform issues end-to-end
Preferred
Experience supporting large-scale, high-volume analytical workloads
Familiarity with cloud cost optimization strategies in AWS, GCP, or Azure
Strong SQL expertise and understanding of distributed data architectures
Experience working in highly collaborative, fast-paced data engineering teams
Company
Lumen Axis
Empowering Your Digital Future with Innovative Solutions
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase