[Remote] Senior Data Engineer - DevOps
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support its data engineering platform. The role designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, cloud operations, deployment workflows, monitoring solutions, and disaster recovery across AWS and Azure environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, automate, test, deploy enterprise CI/CD deployment pipelines using GitLab, Azure DevOps frameworks across multiple environments ensuring secure, auditable, rollback capabilities
- Design, provision, and manage reusable and standardized Infrastructure as Code frameworks for Snowflake, AWS, DBT, Qlik infrastructure using Terraform
- Develop Python scripts and tools for infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and deployment workflows. Build custom integrations between CI/CD systems, cloud platforms, DBT, and Snowflake
- Implement enterprise monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch to enable proactive alerting, centralized log management, audit compliance, and real-time visibility into infrastructure health, system utilization, and operational reliability
- Design and automate deployment frameworks for Airflow DAGs, dbt Cloud transformations, data processing jobs, and application components, leveraging artifact management, container registries, and blue-green/canary deployment strategies
- Design backup and disaster recovery strategies for data infrastructure; automate backup provisioning and testing
- Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services; promote knowledge sharing through mentoring, training sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives
Skills
- This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): North Carolina, Arizona, Texas and Florida
- Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in DevOps engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in DevOps engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms
- Strong experience developing automated CI/CD frameworks using GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, AWS
- Hands-on with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
- Python programming, scripting, automation development
- Integrating on-premise and cloud applications/tools with AWS services, Snowflake, DBT
- Configuration Management: Ansible and/or Puppet — ability to write playbooks/manifests and manage infrastructure state
- Cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Lakeformation) and Azure (VMs, App Services, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, networking)
- Snowflake: operational knowledge of warehouse management, cost optimization, and cloud integration
- Git/GitLab/GitHub: version control, branching strategies, and repository management
- Linux/Unix system administration and command-line proficiency
- Networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, security groups, DNS, load balancing
- Relevant cloud and devops certifications
- Financial banking experience is a plus
Benefits
- Remote role, which may only be hired in North Carolina, Arizona, Texas, and Florida
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