DataOps Lead - Cloud Data Reliability & Platform Ops

NexTier Completion Solutions Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NexTier Completion Solutions Inc. is seeking a DataOps Lead to own and advance the operational reliability, quality, and scalability of our cloud-based data platforms.

The role sits at the intersection of data engineering, platform operations, and reliability, supporting critical data pipelines across oilfield and energy operations. The DataOps Lead will ensure data is available, accurate, timely, and trustworthy, while leading practices across ingestion, processing, and delivery systems on GCP.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in Data Engineering, DataOps, or Data Platform Operations.
• 3+ years experience operating cloud-based data platforms in production.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with data orchestration frameworks (Airflow preferred).
• Proven experience leading data incident response and operational improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day operational health of cloud-based data pipelines and platforms.
• Ensure high data availability, freshness, accuracy, and completeness.
• Lead operational support for batch and streaming data workloads.
• Define and manage data SLAs, SLOs, and reliability metrics.
• Implement and maintain data quality checks, validations, and monitoring.
• Design processes for backfills, reprocessing, and failure recovery.
• Operate and optimize GCP-based data services (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, GKE).
• Partner with platform and SRE teams on scalability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Manage data infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Build and maintain Python-based automation for data operations and monitoring.
• Support and enhance data orchestration platforms (Airflow / Cloud Composer).
• Lead response to data incidents, including triage, mitigation, and root cause analysis.
• Drive post-incident reviews and track corrective actions.

Skills

Data Engineering

DataOps

Cloud platforms

Google Cloud Platform

GKE

BigQuery

Airflow

Terraform

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field

Tools

Terraform

Cloud Composer

Azure DevOps

Job description

NexTier Completion Solutions Inc. is seeking a DataOps Lead to own and advance the operational reliability, quality, and scalability of our cloud-based data platforms.

The role sits at the intersection of data engineering, platform operations, and reliability, supporting critical data pipelines across oilfield and energy operations. The DataOps Lead will ensure data is available, accurate, timely, and trustworthy, while leading practices across ingestion, processing, and delivery systems on GCP.