Senior SRE — Data & ML Platform Leader

Datavant; Springfield (IL); On-site; USD 168,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Data & ML Platform team. You’ll be at the forefront of building and operating a resilient, observable, and scalable platform that enables mission-critical data and ML workloads across our organization.

This role is ideal for someone who combines a strong SRE mindset with deep cloud infrastructure and data platform experience. You’ll work closely with Data & ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts, and App Engineering teams to build a

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps roles supporting data-intensive or ML-powered applications.

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve Databricks and Snowflake platforms lifecycle including automation, governance, job orchestration, and cost optimization.
• Design for reliability: architect resilient, scalable infrastructure across cloud environments and drive failover, autoscaling, chaos testing, and capacity planning.
• Advance observability: build platform-wide monitoring, alerting, and logging with Datadog and other tooling; define and enforce SLOs/SLAs.
• Drive CI/CD for Data & ML: automate deployments of data pipelines, ML workflows, and infra components using GitHub Actions, Terraform, and related IaC tooling.
• Enable data flow across platforms: patterns and tooling for inter- and intra-cloud data movement across Snowflake, S3, Delta Lake, Kafka.
• Champion event-driven architectures: use EventBridge, SNS/SQS, and Lambda for loosely coupled, scalable data systems.
• Collaborate across teams: act as SRE and platform partner for analytics, data science, and product use cases.
• Contribute to strategy: influence data platform architecture, ML enablement, and data product strategy.

Skills

SRE mindset

Cloud infrastructure

Data platform experience

Databricks

Snowflake

Datadog observability

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Python

Shell scripting

High availability

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

EventBridge

SIEM/Security tooling

Job description

Datavant seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Data & ML Platform team. You’ll be at the forefront of building and operating a resilient, observable, and scalable platform that enables mission-critical data and ML workloads across our organization.

This role is ideal for someone who combines a strong SRE mindset with deep cloud infrastructure and data platform experience. You’ll work closely with Data & ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts, and App Engineering teams to build a