Senior Data Engineer - DevOps (Remote - NC, AZ, TX, FL)

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer - DevOps to support its data engineering platform. The role designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and deployment workflows across AWS and Azure.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, automate, test, deploy enterprise CI/CD deployment pipelines using GitLab, Azure DevOps frameworks across multiple environments ensuring secure, auditable, rollback capabilities
• Design, provision, and manage reusable and standardized Infrastructure as Code frameworks for Snowflake, AWS, DBT, Qlik infrastructure using Terraform
• Develop Python scripts and tools for infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and deployment workflows. Build custom integrations between CI/CD systems, cloud platforms, DBT, and Snowflake
• Implement enterprise monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch to enable proactive alerting, centralized log management, audit compliance, and real-time visibility into infrastructure health, system utilization, and operational reliability
• Design and automate deployment frameworks for Airflow DAGs, dbt Cloud transformations, data processing jobs, and application components, leveraging artifact management, container registries, and blue-green/canary deployment strategies
• Design backup and disaster recovery strategies for data infrastructure; automate backup provisioning and testing
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services; promote knowledge sharing through mentoring, training sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in DevOps engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in DevOps engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms
• Strong experience developing automated CI/CD frameworks using GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, AWS
• Hands-on with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
• Python programming, scripting, automation development
• Integrating on-premise and cloud applications/tools with AWS services, Snowflake, DBT
• Configuration Management: Ansible and/or Puppet — ability to write playbooks/manifests and manage infrastructure state
• Cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Lakeformation) and Azure (VMs, App Services, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, networking)
• Snowflake: operational knowledge of warehouse management, cost optimization, and cloud integration
• Git/GitLab/GitHub: version control, branching strategies, and repository management
• Linux/Unix system administration and command-line proficiency
• Networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, security groups, DNS, load balancing
• Relevant cloud and devops certifications
• Financial banking experience is a plus