
Senior DataOps Engineer
Smile Digital Health
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $130,000 - $160,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build, maintain, and run CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for the Smile Digital Health platform and associated services.
- Provision, configure, and operate cloud-based Spark clusters and distributed data processing environments, including hands-on work with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Databricks, or EMR.
- Write, test, and maintain data pipelines on the same infrastructure you manage, from environment setup through to production monitoring.
- Design and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure templates and deployment automation across AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI environments.
- Investigate and resolve data pipeline and integration issues, providing root-cause analysis and durable fixes.
- Monitor running systems and pipelines, respond to incidents, tune performance, and manage cloud infrastructure costs.
- Foster an Everything-as-Code culture and promote DataOps best practices across the team.
- Assist developers and engineers with deployments and builds as needed.
Requirements
- 6+ years in a DevOps, DataOps, or data platform engineering role.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Spark and at least one managed Spark platform (Databricks, AWS EMR, GCP Dataproc, or equivalent).
- Proficiency in Python; solid working knowledge of Java or Scala applications.
- Experience with pipeline orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Prefect, or similar.
- Strong CI/CD experience with GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
- Infrastructure-as-code proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent (AWS CloudFormation and Azure ARM Templates are a plus).
- Solid experience operating Linux systems and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms for data workloads.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams in parallel with strong attention to delivery timelines.
- Customer-first mindset with strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Remote Work Environment
- Flexible Time Away From Work Policy including PTO, Personal and Sick Days
- Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits
- RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution
- Life and Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning
- Super HAPI Fun Club
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Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CDApache SparkPythonJavaScalaApache AirflowGitLab CIJenkinsTerraformLinux
Soft Skills
attention to delivery timelinescustomer-first mindsetwritten communicationverbal communication