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#138807 - Senior Data Platform Engineer

Lifted (an Upwork Company)

DevOpsRemoteSouth AfricaPosted 06 Nov 2026
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Remote, South Africa

Key Responsibilities

Migrate data-platform infrastructure and workloads from legacy environments to modern AWS-based infrastructure.

Support connectivity, deployment, and operational prerequisites for workloads moving to AWS us-east-2.

Enable secure and governed access to data for platform consumers and downstream systems.

Modernize data-platform architecture, tooling, orchestration, storage, and operational practices.

Operate and migrate Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, AWS, and related data-platform infrastructure across development, stage, and production environments.

Troubleshoot production issues and participate in incident response, testing, documentation, and runbook creation.

Deliver repeatable and auditable infrastructure changes using Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code practices, GitLab, monitoring, and documented change processes.

Coordinate migration work and technical dependencies across platform, data, and consuming teams.

Must-Have Skills

3+ years of senior-level, hands-on production data-platform engineering experience with a platform or DevOps orientation and strong data experience.

Strong Python, Bash, and SQL skills.

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