2 hours ago
Remote, EMEASenior
Responsibilities
- Migrate data-platform infrastructure and workloads from legacy environments to AWS, including production systems across development, stage, and production.
- Operate and modernize Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, orchestration, storage, and related data-platform infrastructure.
- Enable secure, governed, least-privilege access to data for platform consumers and downstream systems.
- Deliver repeatable and auditable infrastructure changes using Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling, GitLab, monitoring, and documented change processes.
- Troubleshoot production issues and participate in incident response, testing, documentation, and runbook creation.
- Coordinate migration work and technical dependencies across platform, data, and consuming teams.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of senior-level, hands-on production data-platform engineering experience with a platform or DevOps orientation and strong data experience.
- Strong Python, Bash, and SQL skills.
- Production experience with Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, and AWS, with deep expertise in either Snowflake and AWS or Kafka/Confluent and AWS plus working knowledge of the other data platform.
- Experience operating or migrating production systems across development, stage, and production environments.
- Experience with production troubleshooting, incident response, testing, documentation, least-privilege access, change control, secrets handling, and secure operational practices.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform or infrastructure as code, GitLab, and monitoring.
- Preferred experience includes Apache Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HQL, Snowpark, dbt alternatives, AWS Glue, Monte Carlo, Airflow, data-quality and catalog tools, legacy workload migrations, company migrations or acquisitions, and Snowflake-to-Iceberg or Snowflake-to-data-lake migration patterns.
- Enterprise experience is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Remote contract engagement for 45 hours per week.
- Candidates must be based in an eligible EMEA country approved for sourcing and provide full U.S. Central Standard Time coverage (UTC-6).
- This is not currently a contract-to-hire opportunity.
- The successful candidate will use a client-provisioned AWS WorkSpace.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Lifted
Lifted builds a global platform for enterprises to source, contract, manage, and pay contingent workers with embedded compliance. The software integrates into existing contingent workforce ecosystems and supports multiple worker types across countries. Lifted operates as an Upwork company, serving organizations that need to centralize contingent programs and streamline cross‑border payments and documentation.