Senior Data Engineer - DevOps

First Citizens Bank; Arizona; Remoto; USD 110.000 - 150.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation for a data engineering platform. The role emphasizes IaC, cloud operations across AWS and Azure, and enabling data engineers to deploy rapidly.

You will develop reusable infrastructure frameworks, implement monitoring and observability solutions, and contribute to deployment automation for data processing workflows.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field and 4+ years in DevOps engineering, data tech, or cloud platforms.
• Strong experience building automated CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible/Puppet, and cloud service providers (AWS/Azure).

Mansioni

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Azure DevOps across multiple environments.
• Develop IaC frameworks for Snowflake, AWS, DBT, and Qlik infrastructure with Terraform.
• Create Python scripts for automation of deployment workflows and cloud operations.
• Implement monitoring and observability with Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch for proactive alerts.
• Automate deployment frameworks for Airflow DAGs and dbt Cloud transformations.
• Plan and test backup and disaster recovery strategies for data infrastructure.
• Maintain up-to-date runbooks and documentation; mentor teammates.

Conoscenze

CI/CD frameworks

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Python scripting

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

GitHub

Linux administration

Formazione

Bachelor's Degree

GED/High School + 8 years experience

Strumenti

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

GitLab

Jenkins

AWS

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Snowflake

dbt Cloud

Descrizione del lavoro

Overview

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): North Carolina, Arizona, Texas and Florida.

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment workflows supporting our data engineering platform. This role focuses on infrastructure as code, configuration management, cloud operations, and enabling data engineers to deploy reliably and rapidly across AWS and Azure environments.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, test, deploy enterprise CI/CD deployment pipelines using GitLab, Azure DevOps frameworks across multiple environments ensuring secure, auditable, rollback capabilities.


• Design, provision, and manage reusable and standardized Infrastructure as Code frameworks for Snowflake, AWS, DBT, Qlik infrastructure using Terraform.


• Develop Python scripts and tools for infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and deployment workflows. Build custom integrations between CI/CD systems, cloud platforms, DBT, and Snowflake.


• Implement enterprise monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch to enable proactive alerting, centralized log management, audit compliance, and real-time visibility into infrastructure health, system utilization, and operational reliability.


• Design and automate deployment frameworks for Airflow DAGs, dbt Cloud transformations, data processing jobs, and application components, leveraging artifact management, container registries, and blue-green/canary deployment strategies.


• Design backup and disaster recovery strategies for data infrastructure; automate backup provisioning and testing.


• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services; promote knowledge sharing through mentoring, training sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in DevOps engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in DevOps engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience developing automated CI/CD frameworks using GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, AWS


• Hands-on with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code


• Configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, or similar)


• Python programming, scripting, automation development


• Integrating on-premise and cloud applications/tools with AWS services, Snowflake, DBT


• Configuration Management: Ansible and/or Puppet — ability to write playbooks/manifests and manage infrastructure state


• Cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Lakeformation) and Azure (VMs, App Services, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, networking)


• Snowflake: operational knowledge of warehouse management, cost optimization, and cloud integration


• Git/GitLab/GitHub: version control, branching strategies, and repository management


• Linux/Unix system administration and command-line proficiency


• Networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, security groups, DNS, load balancing


• Relevant cloud and devops certifications


• Financial banking experience is a plus.

Additional Information

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.