Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Automate platform provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, health checks, and remediation using code and infrastructure-as-code
Define and operate SLIs, SLOs, service tiers, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement practices
Implement observability across data pipelines, platform services, workloads, APIs, and AI services.
Improve platform security, access, secrets management, resilience, disaster recovery, capacity, and performance
Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability and operability into new products before production launch
Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate
Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
Ability to travel overnight
Education and/or Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, DataOps, cloud infrastructure, database/platform administration, or related experience
Strong automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Go, or comparable languages and infrastructure-as-code tools
Experience with observability, incident management, CI/CD, cloud security, reliability engineering, and production operations
Working knowledge of modern data platforms and distributed systems.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment
Build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Snowflake, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Terraform/OpenTofu, Datadog/OpenTelemetry, Kafka or Azure Event Hubs and streaming platforms, Airflow/Dagster-class orchestration, LLM and AI workload observability, or comparable technologies is preferred
Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business is a plus
Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments is preferred
Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up is a plus
Come join a winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and are looking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including:
Medical, Dental and Vision
401(K)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Flex Spending Accounts
Life & Disability Insurance
Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits
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