Senior Data Platform Engineer

The role

You will own the day-to-day operation and monitoring of data platforms and pipelines. You will work with data engineers, analysts, and platform teams to ensure platforms are stable, observable, and cost-efficient.

What you will do

• Operate and monitor Azure and on-prem/legacy data platforms.
• Run and support data processing workflows and handle incidents.
• Implement and improve observability including monitoring, alerting, and logging.
• Simplify and automate recurring operational tasks.
• Reduce manual interventions and operational risk.
• Improve deployment, rollback, and change-management practices.
• Collaborate with data engineers and product teams to operationalize new data products.
• Contribute to operational documentation and knowledge sharing.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience in data platform operations, data engineering, or a related role.
• Strong understanding of data processing concepts.
• Practical experience with at least some Azure data services and/or traditional ETL tools.
• Comfortable working with SQL and modern version-control workflows.
• Problem-solving mindset focused on stability, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to build small tools and utilities to automate operational tasks, improve monitoring, or integrate systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS, Snowflake, dbt / SQLMesh, Git / GitHub, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes (container-based workloads and operations).
• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming platforms.
• Experience with IaaC (infrastructure-as-code) and platform automation.
• Solid scripting / programming skills in SQL / Procedural SQL, Python, or Bash.

Benefits

• Flexible working options
• Time off
• Competitive pay
• Benefits
• Well-being programs

About the company

Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, and MoneyLion. They deliver cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection, and financial wellness solutions to nearly 500 million users.