Senior Looker Platform Engineer - Cloud & Data Ops

GCS Recruitment; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Senior Looker Platform Engineer in Annapolis, MD to lead Looker administration and platform modernization within a large-scale analytics environment. You will own Looker administration, LookML development, and oversee CI/CD workflows, API integrations, and governance practices.

The role emphasizes L3/L4 production support, platform upgrades, cloud migration initiatives, and performance optimization across Looker environments, data models, and security controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience administering BI or analytics platforms.
• Hands-on Looker administration and LookML development.
• Strong GitHub version control and CI/CD deployment experience.
• Experience with Azure AD integration and identity management.
• Proficiency with REST APIs and platform automation.
• Experience supporting cloud-based analytics environments.
• Strong SQL skills and troubleshooting complex query performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide L3/L4 production support for Looker environments.
• Lead platform upgrades, releases, patch management, and validation activities.
• Support GitHub and LookML development workflows, including Dev/Prod deployments and coordination.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance, scalability, and data modeling issues.
• Monitor platform health, reliability, and operational performance.
• Implement automated user provisioning and entitlement management processes.
• Investigate Azure AD synchronization and entitlement discrepancies.
• Establish governance standards, security controls, and platform usage guidelines.
• Create and maintain governance documentation and operational procedures.
• Support Looker APIs and analytics initiatives; assist with AI-powered reporting.
• Assist migration from customer-hosted to Google-hosted Looker Core; validate testing strategies.
• Collaborate to standardize semantic models and optimize query behavior.

Skills

Looker Administration

LookML Development

GitHub & Version Control

SQL Performance Tuning

REST APIs

Azure AD

Identity & Access Management

Cloud Analytics Platforms

Data Governance

Snowflake

Teradata

Documentation & Knowledge Transfer

Production Support (L3/L4)

Platform Upgrades & Release Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

GitHub

Azure Active Directory

Looker API

Snowflake

Teradata

CI/CD

Job description

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Senior Looker Platform Engineer in Annapolis, MD to lead Looker administration and platform modernization within a large-scale analytics environment. You will own Looker administration, LookML development, and oversee CI/CD workflows, API integrations, and governance practices.

The role emphasizes L3/L4 production support, platform upgrades, cloud migration initiatives, and performance optimization across Looker environments, data models, and security controls.