GCP Data Platform Engineer maintaining and optimizing production data platforms for Innodata, a global data engineering and AI services company. Supporting Airflow pipelines, GCP infrastructure, reliability, and troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
Support and maintain production GCP data platforms, pipelines, and workflows across batch and streaming workloads
Troubleshoot and optimize Cloud Composer / Apache Airflow workflows, including DAG failures, dependencies, scheduling, retries, latency, and SLA issues
Troubleshoot pipeline failures, data latency, performance degradation, configuration problems, and infrastructure issues
Monitor platform health and improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency
Optimize existing pipelines and workloads to improve refresh times, throughput, query performance, and platform stability
Support platform, infrastructure, configuration, and dependency upgrades while maintaining production stability and compliance
Perform root-cause analysis and implement sustainable fixes for recurring production issues
Support IAM, access controls, monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational governance
Collaborate with client and cross-functional Data Engineering, BI/Analytics, Application Engineering, Infrastructure, and Platform teams
Review existing architectures and recommend incremental improvements
Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and platform support procedures
Requirements
3–7 years of experience in Data Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related role
Strong hands-on experience building, supporting, or maintaining production workloads on Google Cloud Platform
Strong experience with BigQuery and Cloud Spanner
Hands-on experience with Dataflow, Pub/Sub, batch/streaming data pipelines, and Cloud Composer / Apache Airflow
Strong Python and SQL skills
Understanding of GCP IAM, service accounts, permissions, monitoring, logging, alerting, and production operations
Experience troubleshooting complex production environments and performing root-cause analysis
Understanding of data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, data quality, performance optimization, and reliability
Ability to understand existing systems, codebases, pipelines, configurations, and client-specific tools and workflows
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Preferred: App Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, CI/CD and DevOps on GCP, Terraform, data observability, automated data-quality monitoring, Vertex AI, and enterprise analytics tooling
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