Senior Data Platform Engineer - IaC Specialist (Snowflake/Databricks)

Insight Global; Greenwood Village (CO); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking two Senior Data Platform Engineers to design, build, and maintain cloud-native data infrastructure using IaC. You will manage Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS environments entirely through Terraform, with automated CI/CD pipelines and a software-like approach to versioning, testing, and peer review.

Position is 2 days/wk onsite in Greenwood Village, CO, starting Oct 1st. The role emphasizes platform reliability, security, monitoring, and cost governance, with strong

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on data platform / data infrastructure engineering experience
• Snowflake — production experience with warehouse sizing, RBAC, resource monitors, database/schema design, and cost governance
• Databricks — production experience with workspace administration, cluster/compute policies, Unity Catalog, and job orchestration
• AWS — production experience across core services (IAM, S3, VPC/networking, KMS, and compute)
• Terraform — proven ability to author, modularize, and maintain production IaC across multiple providers
• CI/CD — experience building and operating automated pipelines that plan, validate, and apply infrastructure changes
• Proficiency with Git-based version control and branch-based workflows

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reusable, versioned Terraform modules that provision Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS resources
• Manage remote state (locking, encryption, workspace isolation per environment)
• Keep environment configuration (dev/stage/prod) DRY and parameterized
• Integrate the Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS Terraform providers into a cohesive, dependency-aware workflow
• Design pipelines that run format, validate, plan, policy checks, and gated apply on every change
• Implement automated testing and drift detection for infrastructure
• Enforce peer review, plan-output review, and approval gates before production applies
• Integrate secrets management and least-privilege service credentials into the delivery pipeline
• Provision and govern Snowflake (RBAC, warehouses, resource monitors) via code
• Provision and govern Databricks (workspaces, Unity Catalog, cluster policies, jobs) via code
• Build the AWS foundation (networking, IAM, encryption, storage) supporting both platforms
• Implement monitoring, cost visibility, and alerting across all three platforms
• Own reliability, security posture, and incident response for platform infrastructure

Skills

IaC as Software Product

CI/CD

Git workflows

Python/Go (automation)

Data platform

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Job description

Insight Global is seeking two Senior Data Platform Engineers to design, build, and maintain cloud-native data infrastructure using IaC. You will manage Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS environments entirely through Terraform, with automated CI/CD pipelines and a software-like approach to versioning, testing, and peer review.

Position is 2 days/wk onsite in Greenwood Village, CO, starting Oct 1st. The role emphasizes platform reliability, security, monitoring, and cost governance, with strong