US_East | Data Analyst_L3

Position Title:

Data Analyst_L3

Location:

US East

Duration:

Possible 3 Month Contract-to-Hire

Rate range:

$ /hr

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or related field, or relevant experience
• 8 years of platform/infrastructure engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree, including 2 years in a lead or senior role
• 6 years of platform/infrastructure engineering experience with a Master's degree, including 2 years in a lead or senior role

Required Skills:

• Expert-level experience with AWS services: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Glue, Athena, EMR, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred, CloudFormation acceptable)
• Experience with production monitoring, alerting, and incident response at scale
• Proficiency in Python (or a comparable general-purpose language) for building automation, tooling, and applications
• Strong communication skills with ability to lead across time zones and coordinate with onshore teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Apache Spark (Scala preferred) for distributed data processing
• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming platforms
• Experience with Airflow or similar workflow orchestration platforms
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar)
• Experience developing and operating small services or APIs (e.g., FastAPI/Flask) in a production environment

Role and responsibilities:

• Own production support during offshore hours and serve as the first responder for infrastructure incidents, pipeline failures, and agent downtime
• Monitor data pipelines feeding agents and anomaly detection models
• Build and maintain cost dashboards covering AWS infrastructure spend, AI compute/token costs, and third-party service costs
• Develop and maintain utilitarian application code: scripts, CLIs, small services, and automation utilities (primarily Python)
• Lead and grow the offshore platform engineering team, mentoring junior engineers and establishing operational standards

Job description:

The Infrastructure Intelligence and Analytics (IIA) team builds and operates the data platform and AI agent infrastructure that powers proactive network monitoring and autonomous investigation for network operations. The Platform Engineer VI serves as the offshore lead for IIA platform engineering, responsible for production support during offshore hours, data pipeline health, cost optimization, building/leading the offshore platform engineering team, and developing the utilitarian application code, automation, and internal tooling that support these systems. This role requires the seniority to make independent architectural and operational decisions without escalating to onshore leadership during their shift.