DevOps Engineer - Data team

Company Description

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Job Description

As a DevOps Engineer in the Data Infra group, you’ll lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and maintain a modern big data platform while driving innovation and operational excellence.
In your day-to-day, you will: . 

• Build and maintain enterprise-grade AWS environments and Kubernetes infrastructure using IaC, optimizing data workloads with EMR, EKS, and advanced autoscaling (Karpenter/Keda).

• Monitor and optimize cloud performance and cost-efficiency while spearheading the resolution of complex infrastructure challenges.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into effective cloud solutions 

• Lead research and  implementation of innovative solutions to enhance our overall system resilience and support massive-scale data processing. 

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working in live production systems 

• 3+ years of experience administering Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS), with expert-level skills in Helm-based application orchestration.

• Knowledge of provisioning and configuration management systems (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.) 

• Proficiency in Linux and networking fundamentals 

• Familiarity with scripting languages like Python and Bash 

• Strong communication and collaboration skills 

• Experience operating large scale data infrastructure and distributed systems (e.g., Spark on EKS, Trino, Airflow, and Aerospike) at scale  – an advantage

Additional Information

We are Wix’s Data Infrastructure group, the driving force behind Wix’s big data and analytics platform.
Each day, we capture, process, analyze, and serve tens of billions of data points generated by millions of Wix users worldwide. We build the infrastructure and tools that enable the rest of Wix and its users to access, explore, and analyze this data to make data-driven decisions and build smarter AI ready data-driven products.

Our day-to-day revolves around solving some of the most complex problems in the world of big data platforms and scaling them to Wix’s needs. We empower our engineers to be responsible for the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to production.
We value engineering excellence and quality, and are constantly looking for ways to learn, improve, and stay at the cutting edge of the industry.