Cloud System Engineer ( data focus)
Summary
A cloud system engineer with a data focus: assists developers with database setup and performance troubleshooting, builds and maintains a new Databricks data platform, and automates containerized deployments in a public cloud using Terraform and pipelines, while applying security standards (NIST, OWASP) and doing incident root-cause analysis.
What your job looks like
- Assist developers with database setups and structure to maintain the integrity, performance, and efficiency of the systems;
- Troubleshoot database performance issues, and define both short and long term actions to fix structural issues
- Setup and maintain a new data platform based on databricks
- Automating deployment, scaling, and management of the containerized applications in a public cloud environment (e.g., setting up new infrastructure components with terraform and automated pipelines)
- Implementation/configuration of security standards (e.g., NIST, OWASP);
- Manage problems and (security) incidents (e.g. increased error rates in the itsme components, etc):
- Identifying the root causes of problems (i.e. root cause analysis at every level of the solution (application, network, infrastructure, storage)
- Increase database/datalake knowledge in the team in general to make sure everybody in the team has the basic skills needed to troubleshoot database related incidents
- Automate repetitive tasks that are performed manually.