Data Ops Lead NEX
On-siteHouston, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Own the day-to-day operational health of cloud-based data pipelines and platforms, ensuring high data availability, freshness, accuracy, and completeness. Lead operational support for batch and streaming workloads on Google Cloud Platform, defining SLAs, SLOs, and reliability metrics while implementing data quality checks and monitoring. Build and maintain Python-based automation for operations and monitoring, improve repeatability through standardized tooling, and manage infrastructure using Terraform. Lead response to data incidents, including triage, mitigation, and root cause analysis, while driving post-incident reviews and maintaining runbooks. Partner with data engineering, SRE, and analytics teams to optimize scalability, performance, and cost, ensuring platforms align with security and governance requirements.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years experience in Data Engineering, DataOps, or Data Platform Operations
- 3+ years experience operating cloud-based data platforms in production
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub (or equivalents)
- Cloud Monitoring & Logging
- BigQuery
- Dataflow
- Datastream
- IAM and networking
- Composer/AIrflow
- Kubernetes: deployment, scaling, reliability patterns
- Observability: GCP Cloud Monitoring, Logging
- Strong proficiency in Python for data pipelines, automation, and operational tooling
- Experience with data orchestration frameworks (Airflow preferred)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience with Azure Devops
- Proven experience leading data incident response and operational improvements
- Strong SQL skills for data analysis and troubleshooting
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
- 3+ years leading or owning production data platforms in a cloud environment
- Demonstrated technical leadership of data operations initiatives or teams
- Ability to understand and speak English at a level of proficiency allowing employee to issue, receive and respond to both safety and operations-related directions in English
Desired Qualifications
- Oil and Gas Industry knowledge
- Technology/Digital Industry knowledge
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