Hybrid Senior Analytics Platform Engineer

at MSD

• Job title: Senior Analytics Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $117,000 - $184,200 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Amazon Redshift, AWS, Cloud, EC2, Grafana, Java, Scala, SQL, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Rahway, United States

About the role

• Platform Engineer designing and maintaining data platforms predominantly on Databricks. Collaborating with engineers and product managers to ensure business needs are met while leveraging cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Participate in defining the platform standards and architecture patterns primarily for the enterprise-wide implementation of Databricks platform
• Author, review, and maintain Terraform modules and state management for multi‑account/multi‑environment deployments
• Implement reusable and repeatable environment provisioning and configuration
• Create and maintain clear documentation: platform design, Infrastructure as Code patterns, operational runbooks, best practices regarding coding, security and compliance
• Develop, verify, test, document, amend and refactor CI/CD pipelines and the platform configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams
• Integrate platform with data governance tooling (catalogs, lineage, access controls)
• Utilize system life cycle working practices for platform components delivery
• Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcome
• Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas
• Participate in evaluation of alternative solutions and approaches to the current architecture and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager
• Participate in planning, execution, and delivery of the platform ensuring alignment with both functional, product and company goals

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream
• 5+ years of hands-on experience working with IaC Terraform, SQL and databases, Analytics platforms, DevOps tools and REST API
• Excellent knowledge of Databricks as a user and architect, incl. network patters of how it is deployed as SaaS solution
• Excellent Cloud knowledge, ideally AWS certified with good understanding of AWS core service like EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC networking, Security Groups, subnets, IAM roles/policies, Route 53, Transit Gateways, Load Balancing, Lambda, KMS
• Deep knowledge of DevOps tools and practices (like GitHub, GitHub Actions) for code versioning and deployment
• Understanding modern product development principles – Agile, test-driven development, UX, design thinking
• Knowledge of development practices such as infrastructure observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD, containerization
• Proficiency with other programming languages (Scala, R, Java) is preferred
• Some experience with networking principles is necessary
• Experience with Trino, Redshift and Grafana is preferred

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days