Sr DataOps Engineer (R14334)
Oportun, a mission-driven financial services company, is seeking a Senior DataOps Engineer to enhance and maintain the data platforms supporting its analytics, engineering, and business teams. This remote role focuses on Databricks, AWS, data pipelines, databases, observability, automation, and production support. The ideal candidate will ensure the reliability, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness of critical data-platform services while collaborating with various teams.
Key responsibilities include administering and supporting Databricks workspaces, cluster policies, compute configurations, jobs, workflows, libraries, service principals, permissions, and platform integrations. The role also involves supporting Unity Catalog, monitoring and troubleshooting Delta Live Tables, Spark jobs, Delta Lake workloads, and data pipelines, and maintaining secure integrations between Databricks and AWS services. Additional duties encompass supporting AWS infrastructure, MariaDB/MySQL and MongoDB environments, building and maintaining monitoring systems, participating in on-call support, and developing infrastructure and automation using tools like Terraform and Git.
Candidates should have strong experience supporting production data platforms, cloud infrastructure, or DataOps environments. Hands-on experience with Databricks, including workspaces, jobs, workflows, compute, cluster policies, and access controls, is essential. Proficiency with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, security groups, CloudWatch, and networking is required. Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terraform Enterprise, as well as supporting MariaDB/MySQL and MongoDB in production environments, is also necessary. A solid understanding of monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident-management practices is crucial.
While specific compensation details are not provided, Oportun offers comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible spending accounts, paid time off, paid holidays, and dedicated volunteer time off. Additional perks may include remote work options, commuter benefits, legal assistance, employee discounts, and job training.
Oportun fosters a fast-paced environment with a high standard of excellence. The company values individuals who are committed to delivering impactful work that benefits real people. This role offers opportunities for professional growth and the chance to contribute meaningfully to Oportun's mission.