Sr. Data Operations Engineer - Production Support (Face to Face Interview - Locals Preferred)

Sr. Data Operations Engineer

Auburn Hills, MI

Long Term Contract

Job Description:

Senior Data Operations Engineer responsible for production support, operational stability, batch pipelines, incident management, troubleshooting, and performance optimization across enterprise data platforms.

Experience: 8+ Years

Core Skills:

• Programming / Data: Python, Java, Batch Pipelines, ETL/ELT, Apache Spark
• AWS: AWS Glue (Jobs, Crawlers, Catalog), S3, RDS
• Big Data: Cloudera Hadoop, HDFS, Impala
• Databases: Oracle, OLTP, SQL/Query Performance Tuning
• Cloud: AWS, GCP
• BI / Application: Tableau, Power BI, Tomcat
• DevOps / Operations: Git, Pull Requests, Code Reviews, CI/CD, ITIL, Incident/Change/Problem Management, Security Vulnerability Management

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor, support, troubleshoot, and optimize batch jobs and data engineering pipelines.
• Develop and troubleshoot Python and Java code supporting batch/pipeline operations.
• Support ETL/ELT pipelines and AWS Glue jobs, crawlers, catalogs, and workflows.
• Support S3 data lakes, RDS, Oracle/OLTP systems, and query performance.
• Troubleshoot Cloudera/Hadoop, HDFS, Impala, and Spark workloads.
• Support Tableau and Power BI reporting and Tomcat application infrastructure.
• Participate in production on-call rotation, incident/change/problem management, and senior-level escalations.
• Perform code reviews, pull-request reviews, production readiness/gate reviews, and release validations.
• Manage Git workflows, dependencies, security vulnerabilities, upgrades, and application/pipeline lifecycle.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to resolve production issues.

Preferred / Good-to-Have:

• AWS, GCP, or Cloudera certifications.
• Automotive/manufacturing experience.
• Docker, OpenShift, Terraform, DevSecOps.
• CI/CD security, vulnerability scanning, secrets management.
• Microsoft Entra ID / IBM ISAM.