Senior Data Engineer

Data EngineerApex has an opportunity for a Data Engineer in the Houston area. This is a 12 contract, potential to extend position.Responsibilities:Part of a cross-disciplinary team, working closely with other data engineers, software engineers, data scientists, data managers and business partners.Architects, designs, implements and maintains reliable and scalable data infrastructure.Writes, deploys and maintains software to build, integrate, manage, maintain, and quality assure data.Adheres to and advocates for software engineering best practices (e.g. technical design, technical design review, unit testing, monitoring & alerting, checking in code, code review, documentation).Responsible for deploying secure and well-tested software that meets privacy and compliance requirements; develops, maintains and improves CI / CD pipeline.Responsible for service reliability and following site-reliability engineering best practices: on-call rotations for services they maintain, responsible for defining and maintaining SLAs.Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure as code. Containerizes server deployments.Actively contributes to improve developer velocity.Mentors others.Requirements:Deep and hands-on experience (typically 5+ years) designing, planning, productionizing, maintaining and documenting reliable and scalable data infrastructure and data products in complex environmentsDevelopment experience in one or more object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++)Advanced SQL knowledgeExperience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systemsDeep knowledge and hands-on experience in technologies across all data lifecycle stagesStrong stakeholder management and ability to lead large organizations through influenceContinuous learning and improvement mindsetOther:BS degree in computer scienceNo prior experience in the energy industry required