Principal DataOps Engineer

Job Description:
Working at Pluralsight
Founded in 2004 and trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Pluralsight is the technology skills platform organizations and individuals in 150+ countries count on to create progress for the world.
Our platform helps technologists master their craft and take control of their careers. We empower businesses everywhere to build adaptable teams, speed up release cycles and become scalable, reliable and secure. We come to work every day knowing we're helping our customers build the skills that power innovation.
And we don't let fear, egos or drama distract us from our mission. Our mission to democratize technology skills is what drives us and our values are at the helm of how we work together. It's our commitment to practicing them day in, day out that enables our performance. We're adults, and we treat each other that way. We have the autonomy to do our jobs, transparency to eliminate office politics and trust each other to do the right thing. We thrive in an environment with creativity around every corner, challenges that keep us on our toes, and peers who inspire us to be the best we can be. We bring different viewpoints, backgrounds and experiences, and united by our mission, we are one.
Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.
Our Offline Data Platform team is a force multiplier for data practitioners at Pluralsight. We provide platform, tooling and datasets to empower Pluralsight.
Our work includes: building a data platform to support our product data scientists, data engineers and data analysts; replicating product data from our streaming platform and 3rd-party APIs to our data lake and warehouse; deploying data science models; and maintaining existing data infrastructure.
You'll have the opportunity to work with data tools, like SQL, Python, Snowflake and Kafka, as well as platform tools like Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and Terraform.
Who you're committed to being:

• A problem solver who wields the data technology hammer
• Eager to teach / mentor team members and share your knowledge with others
• A phenomenal teammate who recognizes that we succeed or fail as team, not as individuals
• A collaborator with data scientists, engineers and analysts to understand their needs
• Eager to dive in to data sources to understand availability, utility, and integrity of our data
• Passionate about cloud computing; tailing new technologies for data processing and machine learning at scale in the cloud What you'll own:
• Deploying and supporting data intensive systems
• Building and maintaining production data pipelines for data science and analytics
• Improving observability in our data environment, including uptime, usage, data quality, and data freshness
• Building production applications from data science research and exploratory analytical work

Experience you'll need:

• Requires a minimum of 8+ years of related or equivalent experience
• Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, ASG, ELB, Route53, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM)
• Strong experience with Terraform.
• Experience with Linux administration and python programming.
• Experience with Docker and Docker compose.
• Strong experience with Event Streaming Platforms like AWS MSK (Kafka)
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Teamcity or Github Actions.
• Given the nature of high incident response, Excellent organization and communication skills is required for this role. Good to Have:
• Knowledge of container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure management tools like Salt Stack or Ansible
• Knowledge of Monitoring tools like Cloudwatch, Grafana or New Relic.

Our Perks & Benefits Include

• Competitive salary and meaningful benefits
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, for you and your family
• Open vacation policy
• Stay active with our wellness program that allows you to expense your gym membership and other sports activities
• Tuition reimbursement

Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.
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