Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer - AWS & Snowflake

Lyric; Salt Lake City (UT); A distancia; USD 125.000 - 188.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Lyric, the trusted leader in healthcare decision intelligence, seeks a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to design and scale cloud-native data platforms powering real-time analytics and BI. You will work with AWS services like Aurora, RDS, S3, and Snowflake, focusing on reliability, cost efficiency, and security.

Join a cloud data team within engineering operations, collaborating with data, engineering, and product teams while mentoring junior engineers and supporting on-call incident response

Formación

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in Cloud based Data Infrastructure, Database Engineering, or related roles.
• Minimum of five (5) years of hands‑on experience with AWS Data Services (Aurora, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Athena etc.).
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora and Snowflake or similar modern data platforms.
• Proficiency in SQL and scripting or programming languages (Python, Shell, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience using Terraform and GitLab to build and operate CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure automation.
• Demonstrated experience optimizing database performance and operating high‑throughput data systems.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure on AWS using technologies such as Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, S3, and Snowflake.
• Implement and operate core data systems across ingestion, transformation, storage, and orchestration layers.
• Ensure high levels of reliability, performance, availability, and cost efficiency of data platforms and environments.
• Apply and promote best practices in data modeling, observability, infrastructure as code (IaC), and CI/CD automation.
• Support and scale distributed data systems (e.g., PostgreSQL/Aurora, Snowflake, Kafka, caching) across environments.
• Partner with application, analytics, and AI teams to enable efficient and self-service data access and usage.
• Participate in design reviews, contribute to technical standards, and mentor junior engineers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvements in data platform operations.
• Support operational excellence by participating in on-call rotations and off-hours incident response when required.

Conocimientos

Cloud data infrastructure

SQL

Python

Shell scripting

Terraform

CI/CD

PostgreSQL/Aurora

Snowflake

Kafka

GitLab

Herramientas

Aurora PostgreSQL

RDS

S3

IAM

Lambda

Glue

Athena

Snowflake

Kafka

Airflow

dbt

OpenSearch

Descripción del empleo

Lyric, the trusted leader in healthcare decision intelligence, seeks a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to design and scale cloud-native data platforms powering real-time analytics and BI. You will work with AWS services like Aurora, RDS, S3, and Snowflake, focusing on reliability, cost efficiency, and security.

Join a cloud data team within engineering operations, collaborating with data, engineering, and product teams while mentoring junior engineers and supporting on-call incident response