AWS Data Platform Engineer
Apex Systems is a global IT services provider, and our staffing practice has an opening for an Data Platform Engineer with a strong understanding of CDK, exceptional understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure, and solid DevOps Engineering expertise to place at our client, a Big Five Bank.
- Client : Big Five Bank
- Terms : 6-month contract to hire.
- Location : Currently 100% Remote, Post COVID, Downtown Toronto
Project :
- The Bank is seeking a Data Platform Engineer. The Bank’s cloud strategy is focused on innovation, leveraging rapidly emerging cloud native services to meet the rapidly evolving needs of our customers.
- The Bank Cloud Engineering team is leading the way at a Bank where our Purpose is Growing the Good and Being Bold. We demonstrate those values every day.
Be part of the action where we have challenging discussions about how to align those customer requirements to the right cloud architectures and services.
The Bank Platform Engineer will help evolve the core cloud platform, by leveraging emerging best practices and tools, securely connecting to our strategic cloud suppliers, providing a platform for innovation for the entire Bank.
Job Description :
- Design, implement and integrate the bank’s Cloud Platform, core, and shared services.
- Design, implement and manage hybrid cloud connectivity and intra-cloud networking.
- Develop patterns for automated provisioning, management, scalability, and security.
- Ensure that all cloud solutions follow internally defined security and compliance standards and controls.
- Be the major contributor to IaC modules : develop new modules, maintain existing modules.
- Design and plan enterprise-scale cloud environments including application dependencies, data storage and flow, network connectivity and overall cloud hosting.
- Design, implement and secure cloud IaaS, PaaS, and other services in AWS.
- Develop and maintain up-to-date architectural templates, build an operational documentation of the technical environment.
- Continuously enhance the capability, security, and experience of the enterprise Hybrid cloud.
Key Qualifications :
- Foundational knowledge of Cloud data platform, ML / AI, ML Ops, and data visualization
- Experience working with AWS EMR, Sagemaker, Glue, data caching and data warehouse
- Proven ability to secure data sources, data platforms and data analytics and visualization layers
- Solid understanding of Enterprise cloud data platform architecture including Ingestion, storage, processing, streaming, metadata and servicing layers.
- Experience designing and implementing Cloud data security, data governance using IAM, Ranger, AWS Datalake
- Hands on programming experience using Python
- Experience preparing automated implementation of EMR Clusters, ML Ops Pipeline, and system integration
- Experience with data visualization tools (PowerBI, Quicksight) and data gateways
- A critical thinker with a Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and advanced multi-tasking and prioritization skills
- Hands on experience with CI / CD technologies -AWS Code Commit, Code Pipeline, Code Deploy, Bit bucket
- Certification : Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Data Analytics, Certified Machine Learning
Technologies :
- Infrastructure As Code experience : Terraform, CDK, or Cloud formation.
- Glue
- Lake formation / Ranger
- Redshift
- Managed Airflow
- Athena
- IAM, Secrets Manager, System Manager, Cloudwatch
- Sagemaker Studio
- Data Flow or Data pipeline lifecycle
- Candidate should understand ETL and or ELT CICD
- CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
Interview Process : Interviews will occur within two weeks and consist of a technical panel discussion.