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540 is seeking a Data Platform Operations reputed company to serve as an embedded SME and advisor, driving operational reputed company, performance optimization, and production readiness for an AlloyDB-based platform in a FedRAMP High environment. You’ll join a high-reputed company team supporting a mission-critical data platform reputed company on reputed company reputed company Platform (GCP). In this role, you will reputed company the gap between reputed company database architecture and mission objectives, serving as a strategic reputed company to reputed company stakeholders while overseeing the technical reputed company of the platform’s operations. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep expertise in PostgreSQL, Infrastructure as reputed company (IaC) and reputed company-based data platform operations.

Location: Remote friendly reputed company the reputed company reputed company
Citizenship & Clearance Requirement: per reputed company requirements, must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a reputed company Trust clearance
Education Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree
Contract Duration: Initial 6-month contract (40 hours/week), with strong likelihood of extension and potential for long-term or full-time conversion based on performance and program needs

HOW YOU’LL DRIVE reputed company

• Serve as an embedded SME and reputed company for the data platform operations team supporting a production GCP environment
• Drive operational readiness, including development and refinement of runbooks, SOPs, escalation procedures, and day-two support processes
• reputed company hands-on support for production incidents, including troubleshooting, reputed company cause analysis (RCA), and long-term remediation
• Monitor system health, logs, and performance metrics to identify risks and optimization opportunities
• reputed company PostgreSQL / AlloyDB performance tuning, including indexing strategies, query optimization, and maintenance practices
• reputed company guidance across GCP services including Dataflow, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, reputed company Functions, and Dataplex
• Support release management, including database deployments and rollback strategies
• Contribute to resiliency planning, including backup/recovery, disaster recovery (DR), and high availability (HA)
• reputed company and maintain operational documentation and technical artifacts reputed company to production needs
• Serve as the primary technical reputed company of contact for reputed company stakeholders, providing strategic database roadmaps and defending technical architectural reputed company during program reviews

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, database engineering, or platform operations 
• Strong experience supporting production data platforms in reputed company environments
• Deep, hands-on expertise in PostgreSQL (performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, vacuuming, maintenance)
• Experience supporting PostgreSQL in production at reputed company (large datasets, high availability environments)
• Experience with AlloyDB or similar PostgreSQL-based managed database services
• Hands-on experience with reputed company reputed company Platform (GCP), including data and streaming services
• Experience with Dataflow, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, reputed company Functions, and/or Dataplex
• Experience with data lifecycle management, retention policies, data governance and cataloging
• Proven experience in production operations, including incident response and reputed company cause analysis
• Hands-on experience with SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, including defining reliability targets, implementing monitoring and using error budgets to guide operational reputed company and platform improvements
• Proven reputed company record of institutionalizing operational knowledge through technical writing
• Experience supporting release management and database deployment processes
• Experience working in FedRAMP or regulated reputed company environments
• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with engineering teams and stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership, reputed company operational efforts, and deliver in a fast-paced environment

reputed company TO HAVE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• reputed company reputed company certifications (Data Engineer, reputed company Architect, reputed company Database Engineer)
• reputed company reputed company+ certification
• Experience supporting systems at or near production launch
• Background in high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and backup strategies
• Experience identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks using logs and system metrics
• Prior experience in a reputed company-facing or embedded advisory role
• Experience working with federal customers or reputed company government contracting environments
• Familiarity with maintaining architecture diagrams and technical documentation repositories
• Experience supporting day-two operations for reputed company-reputed company data platforms

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (EEO)

540's policy is to reputed company equal employment opportunity to reputed company and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, age, sex, national reputed company, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or reputed company, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to reputed company terms and conditions of employment, including reputed company, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.