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Sr. Data Platform Engineer - Seattle Washington
Company: Disability Solutions Location: Seattle, Washington
Posted On: 04/20/2024
The FoundationWe are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.The TeamAs part of the IT Enterprise Data Solutions (EDS) department, the Data Infrastructure team's mission is to lead on data technology and utilization, enabling informed decision-making, knowledge management, and strategic insights across the Foundation. We are committed to providing a robust, secure, and scalable data platform that enables data-driven initiatives and cultivates collaboration. Working with our business operations and Foundation strategy program partners, the team supports the management of on-premises and cloud data infrastructure, data security and access controls, and the EDS technology stack and roadmaps.Note: We are looking for a data platform engineer who specializes in data security.Your RoleYou will help build a Zero-Trust Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) with a focus on building multi-layered security at the platform and data level (in transit and storage level). The role will integrate EDP with existing or new metadata management and data governance platforms, develop automation for exchange of metadata in our data ecosystem and create standard governance processes. You will define and develop data sharing capabilities with internal and external users. You will grow and optimize our data security practices working with InfoSec, data privacy and legal teams. As an authority on cloud data infrastructure and data security, you enjoy innovating and building core capabilities from the ground up. You will work with a team consisting of business partners, business and data analysts, solution architects, data architects, data and infrastructure engineers, quality engineers and other technical roles in an Agile delivery environment.What You'll Do - Lead the setup and configuration of cloud-based infrastructure, primarily focusing on Azure. Design and implement scalable, efficient solutions that align with the foundation's governed cloud strategy.
- Develop data security controls for the data lifecycle including data lakes, data warehouse, data marts and databases. Ensure data is stored securely, efficiently, and is easily accessible for analytics, data sharing and reporting.
- Build data classification solution to classify sensitive data during the ingestion process, automate export/import metadata to and from the Data Governance platform.
- Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of data infrastructure components. Identify bottlenecks and implement improvements to improve system efficiency.
- Implement data security standard processes to safeguard sensitive data. Ensure compliance with foundation information security policies, data privacy regulations and policies, such as GDPR or HIPAA.
- Collaborate with data architects, business systems analysts, and customers to understand their infrastructure and data security requirements and provide vital support
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, enabling reproducibility and scalability.
- Data platform architecture, system design, and platform engineering of Azure cloud infrastructure, ADLS Gen2, ADF, Event Hub, Kafka, Databricks, SQL Server and Snowflake.
- Develop and build solutions at the platform and data level for protecting sensitive data using techniques such as network security, access control, RBAC, policies, anonymization, data minimization, data masking and/or encryption.
- Build and maintain comprehensive documentation for data security and data governance process.
- Implement robust monitoring and alerting to proactively audit sensitive data usage.
- Participate in problem and Incident triage, investigate, and resolve infrastructure-related issues promptly.
- Work on planning and forecasting to ensure that infrastructure resources are appropriately allocated to meet current and future data processing needs.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging cloud technologies, standard processes, and industry trends to ensure the data infrastructure remains innovative and driven.
- Participate in agile development practices, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and design reviews.
- Evaluate new tools, technologies and platforms through rapid POC's.Your Experience
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