Cloud Data Platform Engineer | Automation & Security

Colgate-Palmolive; Piscataway Township (NJ); On-site; USD 86,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) retirement plan with company-mfi

Vacation and holidays

Job summary

Colgate-Palmolive is seeking a Platform Engineer to join the Global Information Technology team. You will own the enterprise cloud data platform ecosystem and design, automate, and maintain a secure, high-performance platform enabling data engineers and scientists to build pipelines quickly and reliably.

Reporting to the Director of Global Data Platforms, you will implement IaC, CI/CD, and governance, optimize costs, and provide Tier 2/3 support while collaborating with IT security and vendor

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience managing, configuring, and supporting enterprise cloud data platforms and services (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS/GCP data services).

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture & Core Ownership: Design, implement, configure, and maintain enterprise cloud data engineering platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow) to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability.
• Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code: Develop and maintain automation scripts, IaC, and CI/CD workflows using Python to streamline environment provisioning, platform deployments, and proactive system monitoring.
• Governance, Security & Cost Control: Manage user access (RBAC), enforce data security policies, and monitor platform utilization and cloud costs to maintain platform efficiency and compliance.
• Stakeholder Technical Liaison: Serve as a technical bridge between core IT/security teams and data engineering end-users, gathering platform requirements, conducting technical workshops, and establishing standardized operating procedures.
• Platform Reliability & Support: Provide Tier 2/3 technical support for complex platform-related outages, performance bottlenecks, and configuration issues, collaborating directly with vendors to ensure strict SLA compliance.

Skills

Python scripting

SQL queries

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IT/CE

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Airflow

dbt

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Cloud Composer

Job description

Colgate-Palmolive is seeking a Platform Engineer to join the Global Information Technology team. You will own the enterprise cloud data platform ecosystem and design, automate, and maintain a secure, high-performance platform enabling data engineers and scientists to build pipelines quickly and reliably.

Reporting to the Director of Global Data Platforms, you will implement IaC, CI/CD, and governance, optimize costs, and provide Tier 2/3 support while collaborating with IT security and vendor