Senior Data Platform Engineer - Infra & Governance

Zoolatech; Central (LA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pandora is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and harden the data storage and governance infrastructure that powers our data platforms. You will enable ingestion and domain teams with reliable, scalable foundations, built as code across environments.

You will own Unity Catalog administration, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC practices, partner with data engineers, and mentor peers while upholding engineering standards. Fluency in English and cloud tooling are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineer supporting cloud data platforms.
• Deep hands-on knowledge and experience administering Unity Catalog.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tooling, applied at platform scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and evolve the data storage and governance infrastructure that D&A’s Ingestion Layer and Domain Layer are built on, as code, across environments.
• Own operational administration of Unity Catalog for both layers: metastore configuration, workspace binding, and access policies that let source data flow into ingestion and domain layer teams reliably.
• Build platform-wide monitoring, observability, and alerting for both layers — job health, freshness, access anomalies, capacity — so issues are caught before they reach the Accelerator layer teams downstream.
• Automate environment provisioning and configuration so new source connections and domain workspaces can be stood up predictably and safely, without manual setup each time.
• Troubleshoot data infrastructure-level incidents
• Partner with the engineers building ingestion pipelines and domain models to understand what they need from the platform, and make sure the infrastructure keeps up with it.
• Act as a technical reference point on infrastructure architecture for both layers: contribute to design discussions, raise engineering standards, and mentor engineers building on the platform.
• Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, and DevOps practices.

Skills

Unity Catalog

Terraform

Azure

Python

Shell scripting

CI/CD

Observability

DevOps practices

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

OpenMetadata

Job description

Pandora is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and harden the data storage and governance infrastructure that powers our data platforms. You will enable ingestion and domain teams with reliable, scalable foundations, built as code across environments.

You will own Unity Catalog administration, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC practices, partner with data engineers, and mentor peers while upholding engineering standards. Fluency in English and cloud tooling are essential.