The Role

As we continue to evolve and scale our platform, we're seeking a Senior Data DevOps Engineer with a passion for Data Technologies to support and lead initiatives within our Data Teams. The ideal candidate brings deep, hands-on expertise in managing, optimizing, and automating cloud infrastructure on AWS, with a focus on ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance across our entire product ecosystem.

This role requires leadership, initiative, and autonomy. The Senior DevOps Engineer should be able to design and deliver end-to-end solutions, guide best practices, and mentor junior team members, while driving a culture of continuous improvement. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential to collaborate effectively across interdisciplinary teams.

Success in this role also demands strategic thinking, adaptability, and the ability to lead solutions involving complex component integrations. The ideal candidate should be confident managing competing priorities and applying innovative problem-solving skills in a high-impact environment.

A solid understanding of data science concepts, processes, tools, and infrastructure is essential, along with extensive hands-on experience in AWS.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership and leadership of the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring a stable and performant platform/process.
• Serve as a technical mentor for DevOps engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure, automation, and deployment strategies.
• Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks, scaling challenges, and systemic issues.
• Effective communication with Operations, Development, and Data teams.
• Maintain and improve processes and documentation.
• Provide end-to-end solutions, from design to execution.
• Champion a DevOps culture and advocate best practices across teams.
• Provide support and guidance to engineering teams on tooling and infrastructure.
• Setup and evolve tools and infrastructure for scalability.
• Automate processes wherever feasible.
• Lead incident management and root cause analysis.
• Support and act in line with company values, compliance, and GRC obligations.
• Ensure that you, and your team, adhere to the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) obligations within your direct responsibility and control.
• Ensure any non-compliance incidents within your team are raised through the appropriate channels (Compliance Incidents Process) and that your team are informed of any reporting processes relevant to them.
• Challenge processes, policies and projects that will negatively impact compliance within the Group.
• Ensure your team's completion of all mandatory compliance trainings within the set deadline.
• Reach out to the Compliance Teams if unsure of any of your compliance obligations or the requirements are unclear.

Technical Skills Required

• Extensive experience with AWS services: EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Lambda, EMR, Karpenter, Route53, IAM, etc.
• Strong experience designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• Proficient in scripting and automation using Ansible, Python, Bash.
• Deep hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm).
• Familiar with Vault, Artifactory for secrets management and artifact delivery.
• Proficient with Git and Bitbucket for source control.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, especially Terraform.
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana.
• Familiarity with tech like Couchbase, Elasticsearch, Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka.

Technical Skills Desired (Nice to Have)

• Experience with data environments: Airflow, EMR, SageMaker, Ray, TensorFlow, MLflow, Kubeflow, Dask, Flink, Flask, KServe.
• Familiarity with data lakes and warehouse solutions: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift.
• Exposure to PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect.
• Experience with OpenStack, Azure, GCP alongside AWS.
• Experience maintaining pipelines and tools like Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD, SonarQube, Artifactory, Vault.
• Knowledge of monitoring/APM tools: Kibana, CloudWatch, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Elastic.
• Experience maintaining configurations in distributed, multi-tenant environments.

Working Conditions

• Occasional out-of-hours conferencing or maintenance work.
• Supportive, inclusive workplace aligned with FDJ's United Diversity & Inclusion values.
• Learning & Development opportunities tailored to your career growth.
• Agile environment with cutting-edge technology.
• Collaborative culture with highly motivated, knowledge-sharing colleagues.

Functional Skills

• Ability to prioritize and remain focused under competing demands.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong time management and organizational abilities.
• Collaborative mindset with a people-first focus.
• Proven track record of gaining cross-team cooperation and commitment.