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This role ensures the continuous reliability, scalability, and securityof StarHub’s C360 cloud data platform built on AWS, Snowflake, SageMaker, and Datapipe. The incumbent drives operational excellence, automation, and engineering maturityacross the platform, while prototyping and rolling out new platform capabilitiesthat enable agility, innovation, and performance for data and AI workloads across the enterprise.\nAccountabilities:\nOwn end-to-end infrastructure and platform operationsof the DXP Data Platform across AWS, Snowflake, and SageMaker environments (DEV, SIT, PROD).\n\nLead the design, build, and automation of data platform engineering and DevOps practices, ensuring continuous improvement and zero-downtime operations.\n\nLead the prototyping, implementation, and rollout of new platform capabilities and servicesacross AWS, Snowflake, and SageMaker.\n\nImplement governance, security, and compliance standards & improvementsfor cloud infrastructure, data access, and network controls.\n\nDrive operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, cost optimization, and performance tuning.\n\nManage a hybrid teamof internal platform engineers and vendor-augmented resources supporting Day 2 operations and enhancements.\n\nPartnerwith Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure & Tooling teams to ensure aligned technical roadmaps, compliance readiness, and audit traceability.\n\nResponsibilities:\nPlatform Engineering & Operations:\n\nOwn AWS infrastructure for DXP Data Platform (multi-AZ, multi-VPC setup).\n\nAdminister Snowflake environments, including user roles, RBAC, performance optimization, warehouse lifecycle, and cost controls.\n\nManage SageMaker environments (Studio, Canvas, Notebooks) for enabling multi-domain ML use cases.\n\nOperate DataPipes (EKS + Airflow) for ingestion orchestration, ensuring high availability and version-controlled configurations via IaC (CloudFormation/CDK).\n\nMaintain & enhance logging, monitoring, observability & DevOps automation via modern tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, PagerDuty, Slack, ServiceNow, Snowflake observability features.\n\nPlatform Prototyping & Enhancement:\n\nDesign, prototype, and implement new platform features across AWS, Snowflake, and SageMaker to support innovation in data processing, analytics, and ML operations.\n\nLead rollout and production hardening of new platform components (e.g., new Snowflake Cortex AI features, SageMaker pipelines, AWS-native services).\n\nEvaluate and integrate new services or capabilities aligned to StarHub’s data platform roadmap.\n\nDevelop technical design standards and documentation for new features and automation processes.\n\nAutomation & Continuous Improvement:\n\nImplement Day 2 platform enhancements including auto-scaling, self-healing workflows, and CI/CD automation.\n\nEnhance EKS cluster performance, pipeline automation, and integration efficiency across cloud and on-prem data sources.\n\nDrive infrastructure-as-code (IaC) adoption for all environments and standardize rollout strategies (blue-green/canary).\n\nGovernance, Security & Compliance:\n\nEnforce enterprise security policies for IAM, VPC isolation, PrivateLink, and encryption (KMS, Secrets Manager).\n\nCoordinate vulnerability remediation (EKS upgrades, CVE patching, EC2 AMI refresh, Docker image hardening).\n\nEnsure infrastructure audit readiness in partnership with Information Security (ITSec) and Compliance teams.\n\nOperations & Cost Management:\n\nMonitor and optimize Snowflake warehouse utilization, compute spend, and S3 data lifecycle management.\n\nMaintain tagging, dashboards, and cost visibility frameworks across AWS and Snowflake.\n\nImplement cost governance guardrails and usage quotas across platform components.\n\nTeam & Vendor Leadership:\n\nLead a blended team of StarHub engineers and partner vendors responsible for platform sustainment and evolution.\n\nManage augmented vendor teams, ensuring consistent delivery quality and knowledge transfer to internal engineers.\n\nBuild in-house capability in platform engineering, IaC, and automation disciplines.\n\nAreas of Impact:\nScope: DXP Data Platform infrastructure (AWS, Snowflake, SageMaker, Datapipe) supporting C360, AI/ML, and analytics workloads enterprise-wide.\n\nDecision Rights: Platform design approval, selection of new AWS/Snowflake/SageMaker capabilities, DevOps tooling and IaC framework choices, and vendor performance oversight.\n\nStakeholders: Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, Architecture & Governance, Information Security, and Infrastructure teams.\n\nResources: Hybrid team of ~2-4 engineers (StarHub and partner resources) managing infrastructure, platform automation, enhancements, and operations.\n\nIdeal Track Record:\n6-10years of experience in cloud and platform engineering, with extensive experience on AWS-based data platforms.\n\nProven leadership of cross-functional engineering teams managing production-grade, multi-environment platforms.\n\nHands-on expertise in:\n\nAWS Services: VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, KMS, CloudFormation/CDK, Transfer Family, CloudWatch, 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