L2/L3 Data Platform Support Engineer - Arlington, VA Hybrid
Core
Senior Associate Full Stack Data Platform Support Engineer responsible for supporting and maintaining business-critical data platforms and cloud-native applications on AWS, ensuring availability, stability, and performance of batch and real-time data processing systems.
Role type
Senior Associate Full Stack Data Platform Support Engineer
Builds
Batch and real-time data processing systems, cloud-native applications, and data pipelines on AWS.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, Big Data, Data Engineering
Required skills
AWS (EMR, Spark, Kafka, EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, Couchbase, S3), Kubernetes/EKS, Apache NiFi, CI/CD (Jenkins, Harness), Root Cause Analysis, Capacity Planning, Performance Optimization, Distributed Systems, Hadoop ecosystem, Relational and NoSQL databases, Scala/Python
Preferred skills
Microservices architecture, REST APIs, Terraform/CloudFormation, AWS Certification, Machine learning frameworks, Docker, Financial services/e-commerce/supply chain industry experience
Technologies
AWS, EMR, Spark, Kafka, EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, Couchbase, S3, Oozie, Jenkins, Harness, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation
Responsibilities
Monitor and troubleshoot Big Data applications (EMR, Kafka, NiFi, EKS, Aurora, DocumentDB, Couchbase, S3); Investigate and resolve production incidents and performance bottlenecks; Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes; Monitor batch and streaming data pipelines; Support workflow orchestration using Oozie; Monitor and troubleshoot Kafka producers, consumers, and message processing; Support Kubernetes (EKS) workloads and EMR cluster health; Support database administration for Aurora, DocumentDB, and Couchbase; Execute production deployments via CI/CD pipelines; Develop operational dashboards and monitoring alerts; Perform capacity planning and infrastructure optimization; Participate in on-call support, disaster recovery, and major incident management.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
