Principal Devops Platform Engineer

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Summary The Principal Devops Platform Engineer will be responsible for driving

development and strategy for multiple data and analytics platforms with emphasis

on designing highly available and self healing platforms. The role is expected

to leverage relationships with business and technology users to learn the

business processes the applications support. They play a pivotal role in

delivering data needs, identifying and driving documentation and process

improvements, performing support activities for Technology Services, and

engaging technology and business users for ideas to improve the user experience.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities •Implement and maintain cloud native

machine learning analytics platforms; Build services to deploy data ingestion

pipelines, machine learning models on Kubernetes based platform. •Create data

policies, standards, guidelines and procedures in order to ensure data to

support analytics is available, responsive, and achieving business outcomes and

objectives •Create and implement data and analytics solutions or enhancements to

improve overall Vistra data architecture; conduct research and make

recommendations on new data management processes and innovations. •Partner

closely with vendors, service providers, the business and internal team to

define and understand analytics needs in order to achieve key performance

indicators and Service Level Agreements for the benefit of Vistra and its

business objectives. •Determine analytics business needs and translate them into

functional requirements, update/create documentation •Participate in analytics

projects and Agile teams; make recommendations and implement changes to mitigate

risks and optimize analytics performance. Education, Experience, & Skill

Requirements

• 10+ years professional experience in a technology or business field
• Associate Level AWS Certification is preferred Well versed in Devops or Site
• reliability engineering (SRE) tenets 2+ years in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role
• as part of a team 3+ years hands on AWS experience Kubernetes subject matter
• expert (EKS Preferred) Experience in writing and maintaining helm charts
• Experience in maintaining ML Stack workloads running on Kubernetes including
• Airflow, Data pipelines, Rest API’s Hands on experience with Prometheus or other
• K8s monitoring solutions 2+ years of hands on experience with Python Deliver
• cloud native devsecops on AWS solutions Proven experience analyzing code for
• non-standard practices, errors, and security vulnerabilities and presenting
• detailed remediation plans Experience managing and delivering enterprise-wide
• initiatives related to the platforms supported by the team. Ability to learn
• quickly, be self motivated to improve knowledge and tackle new challenges
• Superior organizational skills, communication skills, and attention to detail
• required Skilled at creating executive-level communications and presenting to
• and interacting with leaders Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science,
• Mathematics, Engineering or a related field from an accredited
• college/university (or equivalent) Key Metrics •System availability •Data
• Availability•Data Quality Job Family Information Technology Company Vistra
• Corporate Services Company Locations Irving, Texas Texas We are a company of
• people committed to: Exceeding Customer Expectations, Great People, Teamwork,
• Competitive Spirit and Effective Communication. If this describes you, then
• apply today! If you currently work for Vistra or its subsidiaries, please apply
• via the internal career site. It is the policy of the Company to comply with all
• employment laws and to afford equal employment opportunity to individuals in all
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• regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
• pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military
• service, protected veteran status, or any other consideration protected by
• federal, state or local laws. If you are an individual with a disability and
• need assistance submitting an application or would like to request an
• accommodation, please email us at [email protected] to make a request.
• Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and
• power generation company based in Irving, Texas, that provides essential power
• resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine.
• Vistra is the largest competitive power generator in the U.S., with a capacity
• of approximately 41,000 megawatts, or enough to power 20 million homes,
• operating in all of the major competitive wholesale markets in the country.
• Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation and expansion with an unyielding
• focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability, powered by a diverse
• portfolio that includes natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy
• storage facilities. The company continues to grow its zero-carbon resources,
• operating the second-largest fleet of competitive nuclear power plants in the
• country, substantial battery energy storage capacity, and a growing number of
• solar facilities. Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers
• in the country and takes an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail,
• offering solutions to meet customers’ needs, including more than 50 renewable
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• million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers. As a leader in
• the responsible transformation of the country’s energy supply, Vistra has made
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