Performance & Data Optimization Engineer

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⚜️ Louisiana – Remote

⚜️ Louisiana – Remote

💵 $128k - $173.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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LouisianaNOW.Jobs

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51 - 200 employees

🎯 Recruiter

🏪 Marketplace

Recruitment • Marketplace

LouisianaNOW. Jobs is a regional jobs portal and talent attraction site focused on connecting job seekers to employers and economic opportunities across Louisiana. The site highlights regional communities, industry sectors, current employers who are hiring, career advice articles, and job listings, and appears to be operated or supported by LED FastStart (Louisiana Economic Development). It’s positioned as a marketplace that promotes Louisiana’s growing industries and helps match talent with local openings and employer investment announcements.

📋 Description

• Optimize databases and platform performance across cloud data warehouses and lakes • Monitor system health and manage incidents, events, and operational reporting • Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in queries, pipelines, and resource utilization • Analyze and tune SQL, ETL/ELT, data models, ingestion patterns, and workloads for efficiency and cost • Establish and maintain SLAs, baselines, dashboards, and automated monitoring and alerting • Plan capacity, analyze workloads, and guide scaling and cost-optimization decisions • Collaborate with platform engineers, DBAs, architects, application teams, data governance teams, and data quality teams • Maintain access controls, user roles, and identity integrations including SSO, MFA, and JENIE-based least-privilege enforcement • Provide disaster recovery, high availability, fault tolerance, automated failover, and business continuity capabilities • Integrate DevSecOps tools and processes with enterprise systems • Manage centralized secrets with automated rotation, access logging, and policy enforcement • Embed SAST, DAST, SCA, and CSPM tools into CI/CD • Implement continuous 24/7 monitoring for security, performance, and compliance with real-time dashboards • Ensure automated SBOM generation and management for deployed artifacts • Provide diagnostics, metrics gathering, performance tuning, and canary-release support • Perform automated full-stack health checks • Deliver monthly reports on incidents, stability, performance, configurations, ticket volume, and resolution times • Contribute to platform performance standards, engineering guidelines, and optimization best practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field • 5+ years’ experience in IT system engineering, development, and programming, focused on diagnosing, optimizing, and improving system and data-pipeline performance • Deep expertise in AWS services across compute, storage, networking, monitoring, and logging • Proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Azure Bicep • Experience with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic • Strong incident response and change management background • Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, and ArgoCD • Strong scripting abilities in Python, PowerShell, and Bash • Advanced DevSecOps and GitOps experience • Hands-on experience building, testing, and maintaining containerized applications • Expertise in version control and enterprise CI/CD pipelines • Experience with FinOps, cost modeling, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization • Knowledge of FedRAMP, NIST, and JISF Rev 5 • Skilled in log/metric analysis and cloud performance tuning • Strong SQL and database performance-tuning skills, including ELT/ETL pipeline optimization, SQL refactoring, join tuning, concurrency improvement, and execution-plan tuning • Experience with query optimization, indexing, partitioning, clustering, and execution-plan analysis • Familiarity with cloud data platforms and distributed data-processing environments • Strong performance-monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills • Must be able to pass a background check to obtain a position of Public Trust • Must be a US Person: Green Card Holder, US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, or US Citizen • Preferred experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle • Preferred experience optimizing large-scale analytical workloads • Preferred certifications include CDMP, Snowflake SnowPro Advanced, Databricks Certified Data Professional, AWS certifications, Docker Certified Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, DevSecOps, ITIL, AWS SysOps, or Google Cloud DevOps Engineer

🏖️ Benefits

• AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities • Internal mobility team supporting career goals • Comprehensive medical plan options, including some with Health Savings Accounts • Dental and vision plan options • 401(k) plan with company match • Full-flex work weeks where possible • Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave • Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year • 10 paid holidays per year • Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees • Short- and long-term disability benefits • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Personal accident insurance • Critical illness insurance • Business travel and accident insurance • Wellness packages • Competitive pay