Senior Looker Platform Engineer - Cloud & BI Ops

GCS Recruitment; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Senior Looker Platform Engineer to support a large-scale analytics environment. The role emphasizes Looker administration, LookML development, and platform modernization across cloud migrations and governance.

The candidate will manage L3/L4 production support, platform upgrades, and API-driven analytics initiatives, collaborating with data engineering and IT teams to ensure performance and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical field.
• 5+ years administering BI/Analytics platforms.
• Hands-on Looker admin and LookML development.
• Strong GitHub version control and CI/CD deployment practices.
• Azure AD integration and identity management experience.
• REST APIs and platform automation proficiency.
• Experience with cloud-based analytics environments.
• Strong SQL and performance troubleshooting.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide L3/L4 production support for Looker environments across development and production platforms (Looker Admin).
• Lead platform upgrades, releases, patch management and validation.
• Support GitHub and LookML development workflows, including Dev/Prod deployments.
• Troubleshoot performance, scalability and data modeling issues.
• Monitor platform health, reliability and operational performance.
• Implement automated user provisioning and entitlement management.
• Governance standards, security controls, and documentation creation.
• Support Looker APIs and enable API-driven analytics initiatives.
• Participate in cloud migration and data platform modernization projects.
• Standardize semantic models and optimize reporting performance.

Skills

Looker Administration

LookML Development

GitHub Version Control

SQL Tuning

REST APIs

Azure AD

IAM

Cloud Analytics Platforms

Data Governance

Snowflake

Teradata

Knowledge Transfer

Platform Upgrades

Release Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Engineering

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD

Azure AD

Job description

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Senior Looker Platform Engineer to support a large-scale analytics environment. The role emphasizes Looker administration, LookML development, and platform modernization across cloud migrations and governance.

The candidate will manage L3/L4 production support, platform upgrades, and API-driven analytics initiatives, collaborating with data engineering and IT teams to ensure performance and security.