Lead IT Operations Developer
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Position Summary
The Lead IT Operations Developer provides advanced technical support, maintenance, and platform engineering for GCP-based data infrastructure and business applications. This role combines deep expertisein data security architecture, cloud platform operations, and application support to ensure the reliability, security, and performance of critical data systems. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in GCP data platform engineering, enterprise data security implementation, and cross-functional technical leadership - serving as a go-to subject matter expert for production support, security remediation, knowledge transfer, and continuous platform improvement.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Advanced Application & Platform Support: Provide high-level operational support for GCP data platform services - including Big Query, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, Firestore, and Dataflow - addressing complex platform queries, service disruptions, and technical issues promptly and effectively.
Data Security Engineering & Operations: Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing operations of enterprise data security controls - including column-level and row-level access restrictions, event-driven security workflows, metadata management, and data classification policy enforcement - ensuring consistent, auditable data protection across all critical datasets.
Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution: Diagnose and resolve complex platform and application issues involving row-level and column-level security, service account access failures, and interactions between data security, transformation, and query execution layers. Coordinate across functional teams to identifyroot causes and implement effective, lasting solutions.
GCP Security Hardening & Compliance: Drive GCP platform security posture by responding to critical and high-severity vulnerability findings, remediating secret exposure incidents, addressing Prisma Cloud alerts, and executing dependency and container image scanning for data workloads. Ensure all platform components comply withsecurity policies and regulatory requirements.
Performance Monitoring & Big QueryOptimization: Monitor application and platform performance, ensuring systems run efficiently. Architect and govern Big Queryworkload management strategies including slot usage monitoring and cost optimization reporting to reduce platform spendand maintainoperational health.
IAM Governance & Access Management: Provide IAM role justification and least-privilege remediation for GCP service. Conduct access governance reviews and support overprovisioned access removal to maintainsecurity standards.
Incident and Problem Management: Manage and prioritize platform incidents and service requests, ensuring timelyresolution and clear stakeholder communication. Serve as the senior escalation point for production incidents involving data security, cloud infrastructure, and platform stability.
Development and Enhancement: Develop and implement platform enhancements, security configuration changes, and operational improvements based on business requirements.
Change Management: Lead and participatein change management processes including ServiceNow RITM approvals, access provisioning governance, and platform maintenance activities. Ensure platform changes are thoroughly tested and deployed with minimal disruption.
Documentation and Knowledge Management: Maintaincomprehensive documentation of platform configurations, data security architecture, support procedures, and troubleshooting guides. Create process artifacts such as security flow diagrams, workflow examples, and runbooks to enable team capability and operational continuity.
Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers in GCP data platform operations, security frameworks, and Big Queryoptimization techniques. Lead knowledge transfer sessions to build team capability and ensure operational handoff.
Continuous Improvement: Identifyprocess improvements and automation opportunities to enhance platform support and efficiency. Lead initiatives to implement improvements across data security workflows, Big Queryoperations, and cloud platform governance.
Perform other assigned job-related duties that align with our organization's vision, mission, and values and fall within your scope of practice.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience. Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related fieldpreferred.
Preferred Certification(s): Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or any relevant IT Certification.
Experience: 5+ years of relevant and practical experience in GCP data platform engineering, cloud security, and application/platform operations support.
Special Skills:
Advanced Technical Skills: Expert knowledge of GCP data platform services - Big Query, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, Firestore, Dataflow, and Cloud Run - with the ability to escalate and resolve complex platform issues.
Data Security Expertise: Deepwithcolumn-level and row-level securityand enterprise data security architecture and operations.
Security & Compliance: Strong background in vulnerability management, Prisma Cloud, container/image scanning, IAM governance, and least-privilegeaccess remediation.
Programming Knowledge: Proficiencyin SQL, Python,GoLang,or relevant scripting languages to support platform troubleshooting, automation, and operational workflows.
Project Management: Ability to lead platform projects and coordinate across data engineering, security, and application teams.
Effective Communication: Ability to communicate complex platformand security concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Mentoring: Demonstratedability to train and mentor team members, sharing GCP platform knowledge, security best practices, and operational procedures.
Leadership: Strong leadership skills to guide platform operations, drive security remediation, and develop strategic solutions aligned with organizational goals.
Soft Skills:
Influential Team Leader: Presents ideas and leads technical discussions with clarity and confidence.Demonstrates empathy and self-awareness in managing team dynamics.
Problem-Solving: Resolves complex, cross-system production incidents involving data security, cloud infrastructure, and platform operations.
Customer Service: Maintainsa customer-oriented approach to platform support, ensuring high satisfaction levels across internal stakeholders and business users.
Adaptability: Demonstrateshigh adaptability in responding to evolving platform requirements, security findings, and organizational priorities.
Change Management: Guides the organization through platform migrations, deprecations, and technology transitions with minimal disruption.
Stakeholder Management: Builds and maintainseffective relationships with data engineering, security, analytics, and business teams.
Relocation Assistance Eligible:
NoWork Shift:
The successful candidate(s) must be willing and able to perform the physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Tyson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.