Patterson-UTI ยท 4 hours ago
Data Ops Lead
10713 West Sam Houston Parkway North, Houston, TX, 77064, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expPatterson-UTI is a leading provider in the energy sector, and they are seeking a DataOps Lead to enhance the operational reliability and scalability of their cloud-based data platforms. This role involves ensuring data accuracy and availability while leading best practices across data ingestion, processing, and delivery systems.
Oil & Energy
Responsibilities
Own the day-to-day operational health of cloud-based data pipelines and platforms
Ensure high data availability, freshness, accuracy, and completeness
Lead operational support for batch and streaming data workloads
Define and manage data SLAs, SLOs, and reliability metrics
Implement and maintain data quality checks, validations, and monitoring
Design processes for backfills, reprocessing, and failure recovery
Operate and optimize GCP-based data services, including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and GKE
Partner with platform and SRE teams on scalability, performance, and cost optimization
Manage data infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Build and maintain Python-based automation for data operations and monitoring
Improve reliability and repeatability through standardized tooling and workflows
Support and enhance data orchestration platforms (e.g., Airflow / Cloud Composer)
Lead response to data incidents, including triage, mitigation, and root cause analysis
Drive post-incident reviews and track corrective actions
Create and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and playbooks
Implement CI/CD best practices for data pipelines
Promote testing, version control, and deployment standards across data workflows
Ensure data platforms align with security, governance, and access control requirements
Act as a technical leader within the DataOps function
Partner closely with data engineering teams, SRE / platform engineering, and analytics and business stakeholders
Mentor engineers and help raise the operational maturity of the data organization
Qualification
Required
7+ years experience in Data Engineering, DataOps, or Data Platform Operations
3+ years experience operating cloud-based data platforms in production
Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub (or equivalents), Cloud Monitoring & Logging, BigQuery, Dataflow, Datastream, IAM and networking, Composer/Airflow, Kubernetes: deployment, scaling, reliability patterns
Strong proficiency in Python for data pipelines, automation, and operational tooling
Experience with data orchestration frameworks (Airflow preferred)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Experience with Azure Devops
Proven experience leading data incident response and operational improvements
Strong SQL skills for data analysis and troubleshooting
Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
7+ years experience in Data Engineering, DataOps, or Data Platform Operations
3+ years leading or owning production data platforms in a cloud environment
Demonstrated technical leadership of data operations initiatives or teams
Ability to understand and speak English at a level of proficiency allowing employee to issue, receive and respond to both safety and operations-related directions in English
Preferred
Oil and Gas Industry knowledge
Technology/Digital Industry knowledge
Company
Patterson-UTI
Patterson-UTI is a leading provider of drilling and completion services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States and other select countries, including contract drilling services, integrated well completion services and directional drilling services in the United States, and specialized bit solutions in the United States, Middle East and many other regions around the world.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Andy Hendricks
President & Chief Executive Officer | Board Director
Mike Holcomb
Chief Operating Officer
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