Senior Infrastructure Operations Data Engineer

Grainger; Lake Forest (IL); Remote; USD 93,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an Infrastructure Operations Data Engineer to oversee its data platforms and analytics processes. This role involves optimizing performance, improving data quality, and ensuring seamless operations. Candidates should have extensive experience with CI/CD processes, data observability, and AWS services, and will also mentor junior staff.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance

18 paid time off days annually

6% company contribution to 401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement and student loan refinancing

Paid leave for birth and non-birth parents

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing data platforms and ensuring performance.
• Expertise in CI/CD and data pipeline orchestration.
• Strong familiarity with AWS services and data lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and optimize data platforms and analytics processes.
• Manage large-scale data operational workflows and define SLA agreements.
• Mentor junior team members in data engineering practices.

Skills

CI/CD

Database optimization

Data quality management

Cost effective pipelines

Data observability

Monitoring tools

Data engineering

Tools

Databricks

Apache Airflow

Power BI

Spark

Python

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Work Location Type:Remote

About Grainger:

W.W. Grainger, Inc., is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. At Grainger, We Keep the World Working by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products and solutions delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. Known for its commitment to service and award-winning culture, the Company had 2024 revenue of $17.2 billion across its two business models. In the High-Touch Solutions segment, Grainger offers approximately 2 million maintenances, repair and operating (MRO) products and services, including technical support and inventory management. In the Endless Assortment segment, Zoro.com offers customers access to more than 14 million products, and MonotaRO.com offers more than 24 million products. For more information, visit www.grainger.com.

Compensation

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is$93,800.00 to$156,400.00.

Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.

For additional information and details regarding Grainger’s benefits, please click on the link below:

https://experience100.ehr.com/grainger/Home/Tools-Resources/Key-Resources/New-Hire

The pay range provided above is not a guarantee of compensation. The range reflects the potential base pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual base pay compensation will depend, in part, on factors such as geographic work location and relevant experience and skills.

The anticipated compensation range described above is subject to change and the compensation ultimately paid may be higher or lower than the range described above.

Grainger reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion at any time, consistent with applicable law.

Position Details:

As a Infrastructure Operations Data Engineer in the Grainger Data and Analytics domain, you will oversee and optimize the operations of data platforms and analytics processes. You will build data observability and monitoring tools, managing end-to-end operational workflows, and ensuring seamless platform performance to align with business goals. You will be responsible for defining SLA agreements, driving process efficiency, and integrating best practices to enable scalable and robust data systems.

With expertise in managing large-scale data operations, you will focus on optimizing platform performance, improving data quality, and fostering collaboration between data engineering, analytics, and business teams. You have an opportunity to shape operational strategies and contribute significantly to the success of our data-driven initiatives.

You Will:

• As Infrastructure Operations Data Engineer, you will be managing large-scale data platforms, ensuring their performance, scalability, and alignment with business goals.
• You will serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in this area while optimizing data procedures, managing cost effective pipelines and implementing standardizing data performance and quality metrics
• Stay informed about trends and emerging technologies, evaluating the performance and applicability of potential tools to meet organizational requirements.
• Define and enforce SLA agreements for data platform operations, ensuring timely and reliable service delivery.
• Optimize end-to-end operational workflows by integrating best practices to enhance process efficiency.
• Mentor junior team members

You Have:

• Implemented robust and resilient CI/CD with automated testing in Jenkins, Github Actions, or Gitlab CI/CD (3+ years of experience)
• Managed the optimization and necessary actions to monitor and observe databases, data lakes, and pipelines
• 3+ years orchestrating and implementing pipelines with workflow tools like Databricks Workflows or Apache Airflow,
• Created tooling and processes to automate cost and utilization reporting
• Experience in batch and streaming ETL using Spark, Python, Terraform, Snowflake or Databricks. (3+ years experience)
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and experience with shell scripting in Bash, Unix or windows shell is preferable.
• Familiarity with AWS Services not limited to Glue, Athena, Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB
• Demonstrated experience implementing and optimizing data management life cycle, using data quality functions like standardization, transformation, rationalization, linking and matching.
• Proficiency in Power BI report development and administration is highly desirable

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