Principal Devops Platform Engineer
At a glance
Senior DevOps & Release role at Vst (Txu Careers). Irving · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $144,315–$189,750 across the United States.
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What you'll do
- Build and support cloud-based machine learning analytics platforms, including Kubernetes services for data pipelines and model deployment
- Set rules and procedures for analytics data so it remains available, responsive, and useful for business goals
- Improve data architecture by delivering analytics solutions, researching new data practices, and recommending changes
- Turn user analytics needs into functional requirements and documentation while coordinating with vendors and internal teams
- Join Agile projects, assess platform risks, and make changes that improve analytics performance
What you bring
- At least ten years of professional experience in technology or a business field
- At least three years working directly with AWS, plus two years in a team-based DevOps, operations, or SRE role
- Deep Kubernetes expertise, with experience maintaining Helm charts and machine-learning workloads such as Airflow and data pipelines
- At least two years using Python and hands-on experience with Prometheus or another Kubernetes monitoring solution
- A relevant bachelor's degree or equivalent, plus experience delivering platform initiatives and reviewing code for security and quality issues
Who this fits
This senior individual-contributor role suits someone who can work across platform engineering, data analytics, and reliability practices, and communicate with leaders. The position is based in Irving, Texas.
From the employer
If you have what it takes to become part of the Vistra family and would like to start a promising career with a global leader, take a look at the exciting employment opportunities that are currently available and apply online.
Job Summary
The Principal Devops Platform Engineer will be responsible for driving development and strategy for multiple data and analytics platforms with emphasis on designing highly available and self healing platforms. The role is expected to leverage relationships with business and technology users to learn the business processes the applications support. They play a pivotal role in delivering data needs, identifying and driving documentation and process improvements, performing support activities for Technology Services, and engaging technology and business users for ideas to improve the user experience.Job Description
Key Accountabilities
•Implement and maintain cloud native machine learning analytics platforms; Build services to deploy data ingestion pipelines, machine learning models on Kubernetes based platform.
•Create data policies, standards, guidelines and procedures in order to ensure data to support analytics is available, responsive, and achieving business outcomes and objectives
•Create and implement data and analytics solutions or enhancements to improve overall Vistra data architecture; conduct research and make recommendations on new data management processes and innovations.
•Partner closely with vendors, service providers, the business and internal team to define and understand analytics needs in order to achieve key performance indicators and Service Level Agreements for the benefit of Vistra and its business objectives.
•Determine analytics business needs and translate them into functional requirements, update/create documentation
•Participate in analytics projects and Agile teams; make recommendations and implement changes to mitigate risks and optimize analytics performance.
Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements
10+ years professional experience in a technology or business field
Associate Level AWS Certification is preferred
Well versed in Devops or Site reliability engineering (SRE) tenets
2+ years in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team
3+ years hands on AWS experience
Kubernetes subject matter expert (EKS Preferred)
Experience in writing and maintaining helm charts
Experience in maintaining ML Stack workloads running on Kubernetes including Airflow, Data pipelines, Rest API’s
Hands on experience with Prometheus or other K8s monitoring solutions
2+ years of hands on experience with Python
Deliver cloud native devsecops on AWS solutions
Proven experience analyzing code for non-standard practices, errors, and security vulnerabilities and presenting detailed remediation plans
Experience managing and delivering enterprise-wide initiatives related to the platforms supported by the team.
Ability to learn quickly, be self motivated to improve knowledge and tackle new challenges
Superior organizational skills, communication skills, and attention to detail required
Skilled at creating executive-level communications and presenting to and interacting with leaders
Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field from an accredited college/university (or equivalent)
Key Metrics
•System availability •Data Availability•Data Quality
Job Family
Information TechnologyCompany
Vistra Corporate Services CompanyLocations
Irving, TexasTexasWe are a company of people committed to: Exceeding Customer Expectations, Great People, Teamwork, Competitive Spirit and Effective Communication. If this describes you, then apply today!
If you currently work for Vistra or its subsidiaries, please apply via the internal career site.
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