Sr DataOps Engineer (R14334)

Headquarters: Remote - MX

Who We Are Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a mission-driven financial services company that puts its members' financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing, savings, and budgeting capabilities, Oportun empowers members with the confidence to build a better financial future. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $22.7 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2.5 billion in interest and fees, and helped its members set aside an average of more than $1,800 annually.

The Opportunity We’re looking for a Senior DataOps Engineer to help operate, scale, and improve the data platforms that support Oportun’s analytics, engineering, and business teams. This role will focus on Databricks, AWS, data pipelines, databases, observability, automation, and production support.

You’ll be responsible for keeping critical data-platform services reliable, secure, performant, and cost-effective while partnering closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Database, and application teams. Success in this role means improving platform reliability, reducing operational friction, strengthening automation, and helping teams resolve issues quickly and sustainably.

At Oportun, we move fast and we hold each other to a high bar. If you care about doing your best work while actually moving the needle for real people, you'll fit right in.

What You'll Do Your day-to-day

• You’ll administer and support Databricks workspaces, cluster policies, compute configurations, jobs, workflows, libraries, service principals, permissions, and platform integrations.

• You’ll support Unity Catalog, including access governance, catalog and schema permissions, and secure data sharing.

• You’ll monitor and troubleshoot Delta Live Tables, Spark jobs, Delta Lake workloads, and data pipelines, including failures, performance issues, recovery, and data-quality concerns.

• You’ll maintain secure and reliable integrations between Databricks and AWS services, including S3, IAM, networking, VPC connectivity, and external data sources.

• You’ll support AWS infrastructure used by the data platform, including EC2, VPC, IAM, security groups, networking, patching, and operational access.

• You’ll support MariaDB/MySQL and MongoDB environments, including availability, monitoring, connectivity, backup coordination, performance troubleshooting, and recovery.

• You’ll build and maintain monitoring, dashboards, logs, metrics, and alerts across Databricks, pipelines, databases, infrastructure, and integrations.

• You’ll participate in on-call support and lead investigation, mitigation, recovery, communication, and root-cause analysis for production incidents.

• You’ll build and maintain infrastructure and automation using Terraform, Terraform Enterprise, Git, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting.

• You’ll automate repeatable operational activities such as provisioning, access configuration, monitoring deployment, recovery, and platform changes.

• You’ll manage secure access controls, secrets, certificates, TLS configuration, service accounts, and IAM roles across platform services.

• You’ll improve operational readiness through runbooks, recovery procedures, architecture diagrams, standards, escalation paths, and technical documentation.

• You’ll partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to improve capacity planning, platform performance, cost visibility, and resource optimization.

• You’ll look for practical ways to use AI and automation to improve troubleshooting, documentation, incident response, and operational efficiency.

Who You Are The right fit looks like this

You’re a hands-on platform engineer who enjoys solving complex production problems and improving the systems behind critical data workloads. You think beyond the immediate issue, look for root causes, and build solutions that make the platform more reliable and easier to operate....