Remote Senior Data Platform Engineer - AWS Snowflake Kafka

Liftedanupworkcompany; Ahvenanmaan maakunta; Remote; EUR 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Liftedanupworkcompany is seeking a senior data-platform engineer to migrate and modernize data-platform infrastructure on AWS, with a focus on Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, and Terraform. This remote role requires 45 hours per week and is based in eligible EMEA locations.

You will own production migrations, enable secure data access, and collaborate across platform, data, and consuming teams to deliver auditable infrastructure changes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of senior-level, hands-on production data-platform engineering experience with a platform or DevOps orientation and strong data experience.
• Strong Python, Bash, and SQL skills.
• Production experience with Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, and AWS through one of two depth profiles: Deep Snowflake and AWS with Kafka knowledge, or Deep Kafka/Confluent and AWS with Snowflake knowledge.
• Experience operating or migrating production systems across development, stage, and production environments.
• Strong production troubleshooting, incident-response, testing, documentation, and cross-team communication skills.
• Experience with least-privilege access, change control, secrets handling, and secure operational practices.
• Hands-on experience using Terraform or infrastructure as code, GitLab, and monitoring to deliver repeatable and auditable changes.

Responsibilities

• Migrate data-platform infrastructure to modern AWS-based infrastructure.
• Support connectivity, deployment, and prerequisites for workloads moving to AWS us-east-2.
• Enable secure and governed access to data for platform consumers and downstream systems.
• Modernize data-platform architecture, tooling, orchestration, storage, and operational practices.
• Operate and migrate Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, AWS, and related data-platform infrastructure across environments.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in incident response, testing, documentation, and runbook creation.
• Deliver repeatable and auditable infrastructure changes using Terraform, GitLab, monitoring, and documented change processes.
• Coordinate migration work and technical dependencies across platform, data, and consuming teams.

Skills

Data platform engineering

Python

Bash

SQL

Snowflake

Kafka

AWS

Terraform

GitLab

Monitoring

Incident response

Change control

Tools

Snowflake

Confluent/Kafka

AWS

Terraform

GitLab

Monitoring tools

Job description

Liftedanupworkcompany is seeking a senior data-platform engineer to migrate and modernize data-platform infrastructure on AWS, with a focus on Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, and Terraform. This remote role requires 45 hours per week and is based in eligible EMEA locations.

You will own production migrations, enable secure data access, and collaborate across platform, data, and consuming teams to deliver auditable infrastructure changes.