Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

The Senior DevOps Engineer, Data & AI Platform is a technical expert dedicated to the infrastructure behind Assent's Data & AI Platform. You bring strong senior-level DevOps expertise and apply it consistently to how our data pipelines, warehousing, and AI/ML systems are built and run. Your day to day is spent designing and building the infrastructure and tooling that our data pipelines, orchestration, and warehousing systems run on, working closely with Data Engineering to understand their requirements and remove operational friction. Your strong DevOps expertise ensures this work is delivered with the rigor, automation, security, reliability, and repeatability expected of a modern DevOps practice, applied to the specific context of data and AI/ML systems. You'll need strong data platform fundamentals, a solid grounding in DevOps methodology, and the judgment to know when and how to apply one to the other. As the platform matures, you will also contribute your experience to Assent's broader DevOps practices and initiatives.

Key Requirements & Responsibilities

• Own the technical quality of the infrastructure, tooling, and automation underpinning Assent's Data & AI Platform from design through delivery through sustainment

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure as code and platform automation supporting data pipelines, warehousing, orchestration, and AI/ML workloads (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow), primarily on AWS

• Partner directly with Data Engineering to understand pipeline, workflow, and system requirements, translating them into infrastructure and automation that removes operational friction

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment tooling for the data platform, applying the same rigor and repeatability expected of any modern DevOps practice

• Design observability, alerting, and incident-response practices specific to data platform workloads, so pipeline and system health is visible and actionable

• Design governance, access, and security policies for data platform infrastructure in collaboration with security and data engineering stakeholders

• Guide the Data Engineering team on infrastructure and deployment best practices, helping them build in a way that fits Assent's broader DevOps practices

• Stay current with emerging DevOps and data infrastructure technologies, and drive adoption where they meaningfully accelerate the team's objectives

• As the Data & AI Platform matures, contribute to Assent’s broader DevOps initiatives, shared infrastructure, platform standards, automation, security, reliability, and operational practices

Qualifications

Your Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

We strongly value your talent, energy and passion. It will also be valuable to Assent if you have the following qualifications:

• Deep expertise in modern data platform technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow, with a track record of building and operating them at scale

• Solid working knowledge of DevOps methodology and tooling (AWS, terraform, containerization, infrastructure as code, CI/CD) and the judgment to apply those practices to data platform systems

• Experience designing and running observability, alerting, and incident response practices for data or data adjacent systems

• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a focus on fostering collaboration and technical excellence

• A learning mindset, constantly exploring new technologies and best practices

• Experience in security, compliance, and governance related to data systems is a plus

Additional Information

Life at Assent

Wellness: We believe that you and your family’s well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits: It’s not all about the money – well, it’s a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included, treated with dignity and respect, promoted on their merits, and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process, please contact talent@assent.com and we will be happy to help.

We use AI to support parts of our recruitment process, such as note-taking and initial shortlisting based on job-related qualifications. AI does not make hiring decisions. All candidates will speak with a real person, and final decisions are always made by our recruitment team.