Data Engineer - GCP - LUMI Platform Engineering

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LUMI is the company’s largest Big Data Platform, ideally suited for computationally and/or data intensive processing applications. Whether the data needs to be processed in batch, online, or streaming manner, Lumi provides robust capabilities to handle such workloads effectively, in a cost-efficient manner.
A hub of very hardworking Big Data engineers and most exciting & upcoming technologies. Cornerstone platform offers an environment where Engineers are challenged every day to build world class products.
As we embark on the journey to move to public cloud - GCP you will be part of a fast-paced Agile team, design, develop, test, troubleshoot & optimize solutions created to simplify access to the Amex’s Big Data Platform.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Lumi SRP and infrastructure teams to build reliable system
• Develop nonfunctional features ensuring reliability in system
• Implement monitoring, alerting and logging to ensure system health
• Develop tools to automate operational tasks such as deployments, rollbacks and configurations
• Perform root cause analysis and postmortems for incidents and outages
• Participate in on-call rotation and respond to incidents
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions focused on system design and support Senior Engineers with review/approval.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience designing, building, and implementing distributed cloud architecture within cloud environments. GCP preferred.

• Provisioning, Network configuration for compute resources (ie. Google Compute Engine, Dataproc), serverless networking, infrastructure orchestration, resource configuration.

• 3 + years of experience on GCP services like Cloud dataflow, Cloud Pub-Sub, Big Query, Cloud Storage, Cloud Dataflow, Google Composer etc..,

• Implement and maintain AI/GenAI services using Google Cloud AI services, e.g. Vertex AI.

• 2 + years of experience in Model Deployment: Build and deploy end-to-end ML models, leveraging metrics to support predictions, recommendations, search, and growth strategies

• 2 + years experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Automation Tools approach using machine-readable definition files (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)

• 3 + years experience with system performance - Monitoring, logging, and analyzing system performance (e.g., Prometheus, ELK stack, Icinga, Splunk, Dynatrace)

• Min 5 + years of experience with Installation and Configuration of Big Data Real Time Application tools such as Elastic Search, Kibana, Logstash, Tomcat, Solr, Apache HTTPD, JBoss etc. 

• Optimize cloud-based systems for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

• Monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and security.

• Understanding of fundamentals of Git and Git workflows.

• Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Ruby, PowerShell, bash)

• Experience of working in agile application development environment.

• Experience of supporting platform Engineering Activities, Network, firewall.

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities