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Provide L2 production support for enterprise Lakehouse data platforms, resolving incidents, performing diagnostics, and coordinating with engineering teams. Requires strong DataOps experience and hands-on Lakehouse platform skills.
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Overview
Toptal is an elite network of the world's top talent, connecting the best and brightest in business, design, and technology with leading organizations worldwide.
We deliver freelance opportunities on an independent contractor basis.
For a globally diversified investment organization that prudently invests funds on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi, we are currently seeking three highly skilled
L2 Dataops Engineers
to join an on-site team in Abu Dhabi.
This role focuses on ensuring the stability, reliability, and operational health of enterprise data platforms, with a strong emphasis on Lakehouse environments and production data pipelines within the financial domain.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and resolve L2 incidents across enterprise Lakehouse data platforms
- Perform deep-dive operational diagnostics across batch and streaming data pipelines
- Coordinate across Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, and business/data domain teams
- Manage incident lifecycle using ITSM tools (e.g., ServiceNow), ensuring proper tracking and escalation
- Leverage metadata, lineage, and documentation to support root cause analysis
- Drive incident reduction through structured problem and recurring issue management
Skills And Experience
- Strong experience in DataOps or L2 production support roles
- Hands-on experience with Lakehouse platforms (e.g., Databricks, Delta Lake, or equivalent)
- Strong background in incident management, ITSM practices, and RCA (root cause analysis)
- Experience troubleshooting complex data pipelines (batch and streaming)
- Solid understanding of data observability, lineage, and metadata-driven environments
- Proven ability to own production incidents end-to-end
- Nice to Have:
- Exposure to financial data domains (portfolio, trading, market, or risk data)
- Experience in investment management or financial services environments
- This is a contract-based opportunity that may turn into a full-time role with the Client.
- It requires on-site presence in Abu Dhabi with a commitment of 40 hours per week.
- Please note that the hiring process includes a background check.
- If this role piques your interest, please apply to learn more about the opportunity and Toptal in general.
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