Senior DevOps Engineer
About The Position
The Senior DevOps Engineer, Data & AI Platform is a technical expert dedicated to the infrastructure behind Assent's Data & AI Platform. You bring strong senior-level DevOps expertise and apply it consistently to how our data pipelines, warehousing, and AI/ML systems are built and run. Your day to day is spent designing and building the infrastructure and tooling that our data pipelines, orchestration, and warehousing systems run on, working closely with Data Engineering to understand their requirements and remove operational friction. Your strong DevOps expertise ensures this work is delivered with the rigor, automation, security, reliability, and repeatability expected of a modern DevOps practice, applied to the specific context of data and AI/ML systems. You'll need strong data platform fundamentals, a solid grounding in DevOps methodology, and the judgment to know when and how to apply one to the other. As the platform matures, you will also contribute your experience to Assent's broader DevOps practices and initiatives.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in modern data platform technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow, with a track record of building and operating them at scale
- Solid working knowledge of DevOps methodology and tooling (AWS, terraform, containerization, infrastructure as code, CI/CD) and the judgment to apply those practices to data platform systems
- Experience designing and running observability, alerting, and incident response practices for data or data adjacent systems
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with a focus on fostering collaboration and technical excellence
- A learning mindset, constantly exploring new technologies and best practices
Nice To Haves
- Experience in security, compliance, and governance related to data systems is a plus
Responsibilities
- Own the technical quality of the infrastructure, tooling, and automation underpinning Assent's Data & AI Platform from design through delivery through sustainment
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure as code and platform automation supporting data pipelines, warehousing, orchestration, and AI/ML workloads (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow), primarily on AWS
- Partner directly with Data Engineering to understand pipeline, workflow, and system requirements, translating them into infrastructure and automation that removes operational friction
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment tooling for the data platform, applying the same rigor and repeatability expected of any modern DevOps practice
- Design observability, alerting, and incident-response practices specific to data platform workloads, so pipeline and system health is visible and actionable
- Design governance, access, and security policies for data platform infrastructure in collaboration with security and data engineering stakeholders
- Guide the Data Engineering team on infrastructure and deployment best practices, helping them build in a way that fits Assent's broader DevOps practices
- Stay current with emerging DevOps and data infrastructure technologies, and drive adoption where they meaningfully accelerate the team's objectives
- As the Data & AI Platform matures, contribute to Assent’s broader DevOps initiatives, shared infrastructure, platform standards, automation, security, reliability, and operational practices
Benefits
- vacation time that increases with tenure
- comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country)
- life leave days
- competitive base salary
- corporate bonus program
- retirement savings options
- flexible work options
- volunteer days
- opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives
- professional development days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
