Data Platform Engineer: Azure, Snowflake & PostgreSQL Expert

Private Advertiser; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Private Advertiser is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to improve the performance, scalability, reliability and cost efficiency of Azure, Snowflake and PostgreSQL workloads. You will enhance data processing, infrastructure, automation, observability and controlled changes, collaborating with data, streaming, platform operations, monitoring and security teams.

The role emphasizes optimisation, cost management, reusable IaC, and robust CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Engineering or a related field.
• 3+ years hands-on experience in Data Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering or DevOps with platform responsibilities.
• Strong Python and SQL skills for automation and data processing.
• Practical Microsoft Azure experience across compute, storage, networking, identity, and environment configuration.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake or PostgreSQL, including query troubleshooting and resource optimization.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, automated testing and controlled releases using Azure DevOps or comparable tooling.
• Practical Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code experience.

Responsibilities

• Optimise performance and scalability of Azure, Snowflake, and PostgreSQL workloads.
• Analyse cloud consumption and cost drivers, recommend sizing and tuning.
• Develop reusable IaC modules with Terraform and enforce configuration drift detection.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Git.
• Improve SQL transformations and processing frameworks for maintainability and performance.
• Develop automation in Python, SQL and REST APIs for repeatable tasks.
• Implement monitoring-as-code and instrument systems for reliability and cost insight.
• Maintain engineering standards, templates, and runbooks; support knowledge transfer.
• Collaborate with European teams during CET business hours.

Skills

Python

SQL

DevOps

Data modeling

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

dbt

Airflow

NiFi

Git

Job description

Private Advertiser is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to improve the performance, scalability, reliability and cost efficiency of Azure, Snowflake and PostgreSQL workloads. You will enhance data processing, infrastructure, automation, observability and controlled changes, collaborating with data, streaming, platform operations, monitoring and security teams.

The role emphasizes optimisation, cost management, reusable IaC, and robust CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.