DevOps Engineer

About The Company Vaco LLC is a leading provider of talent solutions, offering innovative staffing, consulting, and managed services to organizations across various industries. With a strong commitment to excellence and a focus on delivering value, Vaco LLC partners with clients to identify and secure top-tier professionals who drive business success. The company's expertise spans technology, finance, accounting, and operations, making it a trusted partner for organizations seeking to enhance their workforce capabilities. Vaco LLC prides itself on fostering an inclusive and dynamic work environment that promotes growth, collaboration, and continuous learning. Its dedication to integrity, professionalism, and client satisfaction has established it as a reputable leader in the staffing and consulting sector. About The Role The Platform Engineer role at Vaco LLC is a critical position designed for professionals with a strong background in DevOps, cloud engineering, and platform automation. This remote, contract-based position offers an exciting opportunity to work on a large-scale enterprise cloud data platform initiative. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting and enhancing Snowflake environments within Azure, focusing on provisioning, automation, security, monitoring, and optimization. The role emphasizes operational excellence through Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, observability, and security integration, ensuring the platform remains scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient. This position requires a proactive individual capable of collaborating across teams and driving innovative solutions to complex platform challenges.

Qualifications

Candidates should possess extensive experience in Snowflake platform administration, including provisioning, configuration, and management of enterprise environments. Proficiency in Azure cloud infrastructure, networking, identity management, and cloud services is essential. Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, particularly with Terraform, is required to support automated infrastructure deployment and standardization. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in DevOps practices, including source control, automated testing, CI/CD pipeline design, and release management. Experience with observability tools for monitoring, logging, and performance metrics is crucial for ensuring platform reliability. Familiarity with security best practices, enterprise identity management, and cloud cost optimization strategies (FinOps) is also necessary. Additional skills in Kubernetes, containerization, and large-scale cloud infrastructure support are preferred but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

The Platform Engineer will be responsible for supporting and automating the provisioning, configuration, and management of Snowflake environments within Azure. This includes developing and maintaining Terraform templates to ensure consistent infrastructure deployment and platform standardization. The role involves designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines to automate build, deployment, and release processes supporting Snowflake platform updates and infrastructure changes. The engineer will support modern DevOps practices such as source control, automated testing, and continuous delivery to enhance operational efficiency. Monitoring and observability are key aspects, with responsibilities including implementing enterprise monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance dashboards to proactively identify and resolve issues. The engineer will optimize platform performance by analyzing resource utilization, query performance, and operational health metrics. Cost management is also vital, requiring monitoring of Snowflake consumption, compute utilization, and storage to identify cost-saving opportunities. Additionally, the role involves integrating security measures such as enterprise authentication, access controls, and compliance protocols. Collaboration with cross-functional teams—including data engineering, security, infrastructure, and DevOps—is essential to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable platform solutions. The engineer will also participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous platform improvements to ensure operational stability and excellence.

Benefits

Vaco LLC offers a comprehensive benefits package to support the well-being and professional growth of its contractors. This includes competitive hourly or salary compensation up to $90W2+ based on experience. The role provides opportunities for discretionary bonuses, along with access to medical, dental, and vision insurance plans. Participants in the company's 401(k) retirement plan can plan for their financial future. Additional benefits may include paid time off, professional development opportunities, and flexible remote work arrangements. Vaco LLC emphasizes a supportive work environment that values diversity, inclusion, and work-life balance, fostering a culture of continuous learning and career advancement. Equal Opportunity Vaco LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. The company does not discriminate based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristic as defined by law. Vaco LLC ensures reasonable accommodations are provided to qualified individuals with disabilities to participate fully in the application and employment process. The organization values diversity and promotes workplace equality, fostering a culture where everyone can thrive and contribute to the company's success.