Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer Location: 100% Remote Duration: 2 Months (Possible Extension) Job Responsibilities: Be a technical expert on all aspects of Snowflake, Python and AWS services Deploy Snowflake objects following best practices for configuration, optimization, documentation and support Maintain deep understanding of complementary technologies and help organizations leverage Snowflake as part of their larger technology stack Foster collaboration with software product development, architecture, and IT teams to ensure releases are delivered with repeatable and audit-able processes. Monitoring health, tuning, and growth of cloud databases Provides release management support for Warehouse, databases and related applications Interface with engineers, product managers & architecture to understand data needs and help build & migrate data projects onto Snowflake data warehouse Support the set-up of roles, schemas, & data pipelines while adhering to security policies and overcoming security restrictions. Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup and restores of different environments. Ideal candidates will have a deep understanding of technical and functional designs for Databases, Data Warehousing, Reporting, and Data Mining areas Familiar with SDLC and Release Management Create documentation reflecting current platforms architecture Qualifications: A minimum of bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent. Experience with Informatica IICS, Airflow, and Snowflake in an admin/ developer role Experience with SQL/Python & relational data including exposure to complex data models 5-7 Years of Experience with scripting languages use (Python, R, Java, Scala). 3-5 Years of Experience AWS services (VPC, EC2, SQS, SNS, Lambda, IAM, RDS). Demonstrated knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS alerting/monitoring tools Experience in managing a GIT based Source control Git/GitHub/Bitbucket Experience with CI/CD technologies and tools like Jenkins, Ant or Gradle Ability to work well both independently and with other team members Ability to multi-task required and provide rapid support in production