Senior SRE, Data Platform & Cloud Reliability

Datavant; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 168,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant is a data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. We seek a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate a resilient, observable, and scalable platform for data and ML workloads.

You will collaborate with Data & ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts, and App Engineering teams to deliver secure, self-service, production-grade systems. This role emphasizes cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, and modern CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps roles supporting data-intensive or ML-powered applications.
• Hands-on Databricks experience including workspace setup, cluster/job management, and integration with CI/CD and data orchestration tools. Experience with Snowflake as well.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, including VPCs, IAM, event-driven patterns, and serverless compute.
• Proven expertise with observability tools (Datadog) and architecting platform-wide logging and monitoring solutions.
• Strong command of CI/CD tooling, especially GitHub Actions, Terraform, and deployment automation for data systems.
• Working knowledge in shell scripting and Python.
• Experience building and supporting highly available, fault-tolerant systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to work effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Operate and Improve Databricks and Snowflake platforms lifecycle, including automation, workspace governance, job orchestration, and cost optimization.
• Design for Reliability: architect resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure across cloud environments.
• Advance Observability: build platform-wide monitoring, alerting, and logging infrastructure using Datadog and other tools; define 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: build patterns to support inter- and intra-cloud data movement across Snowflake, S3, Delta Lake, and Kafka.
• Champion Event-Driven Architectures: leverage EventBridge, SNS/SQS, and Lambda for scalable data systems.
• Collaborate Across Teams: serve 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

Python

CI/CD

Automation

IaC

AWS

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

Datavant is a data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. We seek a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate a resilient, observable, and scalable platform for data and ML workloads.

You will collaborate with Data & ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts, and App Engineering teams to deliver secure, self-service, production-grade systems. This role emphasizes cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, and modern CI/CD practices.