Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture and Engineering
Design and implement AWS-based data platform infrastructure

supporting Databricks workloads and integration with Snowflake.

Build and maintain Amazon S3-based data lake storage, Databricks

compute and workspace configurations, and platform connectivity.
Establish consistent, isolated configurations across development, test, and production environments.
Evaluate design trade-offs across scalability, security, performance, maintainability, and cost.

Cross-Platform Integration
Design and implement secure integrations between AWS services, Databricks, and Snowflake.
Implement authentication, authorization, secrets management, and network connectivity for platform integrations.

Governance, Auditing, and Observability
Configure governance and access controls using Databricks Unity Catalog, AWS IAM, and Snowflake role-based access controls.
Collaborate with security and governance teams on encryption, access reviews, audit evidence, and policy enforcement.

Reliability and Operational Readiness
Ensure platform availability, reliability, security, and performance across non-production and production environments.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration through Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
Optimize compute utilization, storage, workload performance, and platform costs.
Define monitoring dashboards, operational runbooks, support procedures, and production readiness checks.
Implement and validate backup, recovery, and disaster recovery arrangements aligned with business requirements.
Troubleshoot platform incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and deliver preventive improvements.

Preferred candidate profile

Required Skills and Experience

812 years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering, including hands-on ownership of production platforms.
Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining AWS and Databricks-based infrastructure.

Practical experience integrating AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake.
Working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, IAM, VPC, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Git-based development, and CI/CD automation.

Demonstrated ability to implement logging, and operational monitoring.
Strong troubleshooting, technical documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with private connectivity, multi-account AWS environments, and enterprise security controls.

Relevant AWS, Databricks, or Snowflake certifications.