Cloud Data Infrastructure Engineer - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Cloud Data Infrastructure Engineer

Exciting Opportunity at MSK

Seeking experienced data infrastructure engineer to help drive MSK’s data modernization journey. You will design, implement, and maintain data infrastructure solutions for a new hybrid and multi-cloud data ecosystem that will be used for multiple purposes including data science and analytics.

Position Overview:

• Collaborate with technical product management and operations, to deliver the engineering roadmap following the agile model.
• Develop templates, playbooks, and automation to make infrastructure support and operations scalable.
• Build the cloud data platform using infrastructure as code (IAC).
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for both Terraform and data ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Analyze and optimize data processes for efficiency, reliability, cost effectiveness, redundancy, and security.
• Help assess capabilities and integration feasibility of new technologies that are candidates for the ecosystem.
• Mentor team members on best practices for implementation, deployment, and operations for cloud data pipelines.
• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure data services on cloud platforms.
• Partner with enterprise cloud platform teams to engineer service implementations that comply with cloud governance standards.

Key Qualifications:

• Minimum 4+ years of Cloud Data Engineer working experience.
• Proficiency in translating designs into fully developed and well-structured Terraform code for managing Databricks and AWS resources.
• Proficiency with large scale data processing using PySpark including development and troubleshooting of PySpark pipelines.
• Proficiency with SQL and database design.
• Experience with GitOps and DataOps (preferably on GitHub)
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security.
• Implementation expertise on AWS technologies including Cloud Formation, IAM, S3, EC2, Glue, MWAA.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments, building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions.
• Experience in shell scripting i.e., Bash
• Experience in Cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Datadog

Core Skills:

• An in-depth understanding of both business and technical discussions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.

Additional Information:

• Location: 633 Third Avenue, NY
• Reporting to Director, Data Management
• Schedule: Hybrid, 4 days a month onsite

Pay Range: $118,800 - $196,200

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