Sr. Data Ops/Data Platform Administrator

System Maintenance: Execute regular upgrades, patching, and configuration of VDP servers to ensure environment stability.

Operational Health: Monitor system uptime and manage environment-specific settings across Dev, QA, and Production.

Performance Tuning: Manage caching and resource allocation to maintain optimal query speeds for the business.

Troubleshooting: Act as the Tier 3 point of escalation for any data connectivity or performance issues.

Access Control: Day-to-day management of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), user provisioning, and security integrations.

Cost Management: Monitor Snowflake credit usage and Databricks consumption; manage resource monitors and alerting to prevent budget overages.

Service Maintenance: Oversee the operational health of cloud services.

Environment Management: Manage deployments for Astro/Airflow, ensuring environment variables and secrets are correctly configured and updated.

Job Oversight: Monitor dbt Cloud job runs, manage environment configurations, and troubleshoot integration issues between dbt and Snowflake.

CI/CD Maintenance: Maintain existing CI/CD pipelines to ensure code moves from development to production without manual intervention.

Operational Standards: Maintain the "guardrails"—security policies, naming conventions, and deployment standards—that keep the platform organized.

Documentation: Keep system documentation, environment diagrams, and administrative procedures up to date.

Support: Ensure the data engineering team has the necessary permissions and stable environments required to meet their delivery timelines.

Experience: 5+ years in a Systems Admin, Database Admin (DBA), or DataOps role.

Denodo Admin: Practical experience managing on-prem Denodo with a focus on data delivery and performance tuning.

Cloud Admin: Strong administrative background in Snowflake (managing warehouses, roles, and usage) and familiarity with Databricks.

Tooling: Proficient in dbt Cloud, Fivetran, and Airflow.

Skills: Strong understanding of SQL, Git/DevOps, and basic CI/CD pipeline maintenance.

This is a critical "Specialist" position. You will own the health of a sophisticated, high-growth data stack. If you enjoy the challenge of managing a hybrid environment and take pride in building highly available, "bulletproof" systems, this is the role for you.

SM Energy offers competitive compensation and benefits programs which include, but are not limited to, variable pay, health care coverage, retirement plan, protection coverage, time off and leave programs, training and development opportunities and a range of allowances connected to specific work situations. Details are available at Careers :: SM Energy Company (SM) (sm-energy.com) .

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.