Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Enlighten is a leader in big data solution development and deployment, specializing in cloud-based services and data science. They are seeking a Senior Platform Delivery & Reliability Engineer to manage the rollout of their data lakehouse platform across multiple production Kubernetes clusters, ensuring efficient deployments and resolving critical issues.
Responsibilities
- Plan, coordinate, and execute deployments and upgrades of the data lakehouse platform across 50 production Kubernetes clusters in customer environments
- Debug and troubleshoot critical issues anywhere in the stack (infrastructure, Kubernetes, platform services, data services, and applications) and drive them to root cause
- Contribute patches, configuration changes, and automation improvements directly back to the platform
- Catalog and triage issues discovered in the field, communicate them clearly to the Infrastructure, Ingest, Query, and Application teams, and maintain a living knowledge base of failure modes, fixes, and runbooks
- Enable and improve site reliability for fielded environments: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continuous reliability improvement
- Identify friction and dysfunction in how deployments happen, such as unclear handoffs, communication gaps, and repeated manual work; then design, implement, and institutionalize the processes that eliminate them (release checklists, readiness reviews, escalation paths, cross-team communication cadences)
- Continuously improve deployment tooling and automation so rollouts become faster, safer, and more repeatable
- Coordinate with a large set of stakeholders (the engineering teams, government programs, security, and site personnel) and keep them informed
- Mentor engineers, both junior and senior, on debugging, deployment, and operational excellence
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Must obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Security Clearance, but not required on day one; U.S. Citizenship required
- 9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience
- Deep, hands-on experience deploying, operating, and debugging production Kubernetes clusters and their ecosystem (networking, storage, service meshes, observability, volume management)
- Proven record of delivering complex distributed systems into production across many environments or sites: not just building platforms, but landing them with customers
- Elite troubleshooting and analytical skills across the full stack: Linux systems, hosts, networks, security, containers, and application services
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and modern cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI) and proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g., Go, Python, Bash)
- Working knowledge of SRE practices: monitoring and alerting, incident management, blameless postmortems, and runbook development
- Demonstrated experience creating or improving engineering and delivery processes that other teams actually adopted; you can point to a workflow that exists because you built it
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to translate deep technical issues for engineers, leadership, and customers, and comfortable coordinating a large number of people across organizational boundaries
- Experience deploying or operating large-scale data platforms and lakehouse technologies (e.g., Spark, Trino/Presto, Kafka, NiFi, object storage, Iceberg/Delta/Hudi)
- Experience delivering into DoD, IC, or other federal environments, including STIG-hardened, disconnected, or air-gapped deployments and familiarity with the RMF/ATO process
- Experience with Kubernetes Operators/Controllers development
- Prior release management, delivery lead, field engineering, or deployment engineering experience on a multi-team program
- Understanding of agile software development methodologies and use of standard software development tool suites (e.g., YouTrack, GitLab, Nexus)
- DoD 8140 / 8570 compliance certifications may be required in this position as directed by the customer
Benefits
- 100% paid employee premium for healthcare, vision and dental plans.
- 10% 401k benefit.
- Generous PTO + 10 paid holidays.
- Education/training allowances.
- Our hybrid work approach ensures that you can make lasting relationships with your team and collaborate in-person to get the job done—while having the flexibility to work from home when needed to achieve focused results.
- Work Location: Remote or Hybrid. This role is fully remote unless you are located near one of our offices in Columbia, MD; San Antonio, TX; Boise, ID; Greenville, SC; or Augusta, GA, where a hybrid schedule applies.
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