Principal Devops Platform Engineer
Vistra Corp4 months ago
Irving, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Implement and maintain cloud-native machine learning analytics platforms on AWS and Kubernetes.
- Build services for deploying data ingestion pipelines and machine learning models.
- Create data policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures supporting analytics availability and business outcomes.
- Develop data and analytics solutions and enhancements to improve Vistra’s data architecture.
- Research and recommend data management processes and innovations.
- Partner with vendors, service providers, business stakeholders, and internal teams to define analytics needs and meet KPIs and SLAs.
- Translate analytics business needs into functional requirements and create or update documentation.
- Participate in analytics projects and Agile teams, implementing changes to mitigate risks and optimize analytics performance.
- Support Technology Services and improve the user experience of supported platforms.
- Analyze code for non-standard practices, errors, and security vulnerabilities and present remediation plans.
- Manage and deliver enterprise-wide initiatives related to supported platforms.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience in a technology or business field.
- 2+ years of experience in an SRE, operations, or DevOps role as part of a team.
- 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
- Kubernetes subject matter expertise, preferably with EKS.
- Experience writing and maintaining Helm charts.
- Experience maintaining ML stack workloads on Kubernetes, including Airflow, data pipelines, and REST APIs.
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus or other Kubernetes monitoring solutions.
- 2+ years of hands-on Python experience.
- Experience delivering cloud-native DevSecOps solutions on AWS.
- Experience analyzing code for errors, non-standard practices, and security vulnerabilities and creating remediation plans.
- Experience managing enterprise-wide platform initiatives.
- Associate-level AWS certification is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent.
- Strong organizational, communication, and attention-to-detail skills, including executive-level communications and presentations.
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About Vistra Corp
Vistra Corp is a U.S. integrated retail electricity and power generation company, selling power and related services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. It operates a diversified fleet—including the Comanche Peak nuclear plant, natural gas units, renewables, and large-scale battery storage—and is headquartered in Irving, Texas, trading on the NYSE as VST. Retail brands such as TXU Energy and Ambit serve deregulated markets, backed by wholesale generation across multiple regional power markets.