Lead Data Platform Engineer — Observability & Security

Aumni; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Aumni is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to architect and deliver secure, scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms. You will lead observability, data architecture, and platform engineering to ensure reliable backup, recovery, and data protection across relational and NoSQL estates.

Responsibilities include designing role-based dashboards with Grafana/Dynatrace/Tableau, defining SLIs/SLOs, and driving automation, CI/CD, and IaC practices on AWS.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of applied engineering experience, leading production-critical systems.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases; strong observability and security governance.
• Proficiency in system design, scalability, latency, reliability, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain role-based observability dashboards for data platforms.
• Define dashboard standards, ownership, tagging conventions, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure instrumentation and telemetry quality for actionable platform signals and KPIs.
• Establish and publish SLIs/SLOs and operational health KPIs with Grafana/Dynatrace/Tableau.

Skills

Observability

Distributed systems

Automation frameworks

AWS experience

Python

CI/CD

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Grafana

Dynatrace

Tableau

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Job description

Aumni is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to architect and deliver secure, scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms. You will lead observability, data architecture, and platform engineering to ensure reliable backup, recovery, and data protection across relational and NoSQL estates.

Responsibilities include designing role-based dashboards with Grafana/Dynatrace/Tableau, defining SLIs/SLOs, and driving automation, CI/CD, and IaC practices on AWS.