Senior Data Engineer - DevOps

First Citizens; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Remote-friendly

Job summary

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

You will craft scalable Terraform-based frameworks, automate cloud tasks, and implement robust monitoring and disaster recovery. The position is remote and nationwide within the United States.

Qualifications

• Experience designing automated CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, test, deploy CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Design, provision, and manage IaC for Snowflake, AWS, DBT, Qlik with Terraform.
• Develop Python scripts for automation and tooling to support deployment workflows.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability with Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch.
• Automate deployment of Airflow DAGs, dbt Cloud transforms, and data jobs.
• Develop backup and disaster recovery strategies for data infrastructure.
• Create and maintain runbooks and documentation; mentor and train teams.

Skills

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Python

Snowflake

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

High School Diploma + 8 years experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub

Linux

AWS

Job description

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.

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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.