Lead Data Engineer for a Software Company

Currently, we're looking for a remote Lead Data Engineer with 5+ years of Data Engineering experience, and Google Cloud Platform expertise to join our team.

The customer is a German multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.

The main pool of tasks is associated with the migration of on-premises data services into the Google Cloud Platform.

Please note that even though you are applying for this position, you may be offered other projects to join within EPAM Anywhere.

We accept CVs only in English.

Responsibilities

• Designing the architecture for data services technologies in GCP and providing subject matter expertise input into the overall migration plan
• Configuring data replication for the technologies in scope to move the data to Google Cloud Platform
• Building Terraform and Ansible scripts to build and deploy database infrastructure and instances
• Analyzing automation, monitoring, and tooling gaps in the Data Services infrastructure and designing and building processes and solutions to address
• Driving innovation and the adoption of new technologies in the organization to increase operational efficiency, scalability, agility, and continuous improvement feedback loops
• Building relationships with engineering colleagues and collaborating on application design

Requirements

• 5+ years of Data Engineering experience
• Experience with building infrastructure and services in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and migration experience from on-premises data centers to GCP
• Experience with automating infrastructure deployments using Terraform, Ansible, Salt, Jenkins, and Rundeck
• Demonstrated programming skills in one or more of: Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, C, specifically for infrastructure automation
• Obsessively detail oriented
• Willingness to take the initiative to contribute beyond your own responsibilities
• Ability and interest to learn and deploy new technology quickly

Technologies

• Hana, Hadoop, Redis, Kafka, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra

We offer

• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
• Work on enterprise-level projects on a long-term basis
• Full-time remote work
• Unlimited access to learning resources (EPAM training courses, English classes, Internal Library)
• Community of 38,000+ industry's top professionals