Description
About the Role
At Mastery Logistics, we are building a comprehensive cloud-based transportation management service (TMS) to help large shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers manage complex transportation needs. As we continue enrolling customers, we face several complex problems requiring creative, data-intensive solutions to automate operations at scale.
We are seeking a Senior Data Ops Engineer to join our growing Data Infrastructure Operations team. In this role, you'll play a critical part in supporting and optimizing the data platform that powers our data warehouse and reporting products. You'll be responsible for building, maintaining, and enhancing systems that ensure our data pipelines run reliably and efficiently - with a focus on automation, monitoring, and scalability.
You'll work hands-on with our tech stack of modern tooling like Kubernetes (AKS), Airflow, Kafka Connect, Terraform, dbt, Snowflake, and various Azure cloud services.
Responsibilities
Requirements:
Estimated Compensation:
$120,000 - $140,000 base salary per annum (commensurate with experience and ability)
About Mastery
Mastery Logistics Systems is building the world's first lovable Transportation Management System, or TMS.
Our customers - large transportation companies and shippers who need those companies - have struggled with systems that are outdated or inadequate. As shippers or transportation service providers, our customers have in the past been forced to use multiple systems to manage dedicated fleet operations, outsourced or insourced trans management, one way trucking, truckload brokerage, LTL, and Intermodal, or to sub-optimize one or more of those functions by attempting to fit it into a TMS that is adequate at another function.
Mastermind TMS allows our customers to bring all of these functions into a single platform, providing flexibility, visibility, control, and efficiency. Today's unprecedented global supply chain upheavals underscore how important the transportation industry is. We are building a system to allow this industry to work faster, smarter and more efficiently.
The challenges in this industry are big and exciting! We are tackling everything from fast and efficient data input to ingesting large amounts of data and applying AI to looking at blockchain to securely digitize paperwork. If you are passionate about humanizing an industry, automating in innovative ways, building for quality and scale, helping make people's lives easier and touching every part of our economy then this is the place for you.
Mastery Logistics Systems is committed to continuing to build an incredible company. We are a masterful mosaic of incredible people. We are specialists and experienced in our respective fields. We are dedicated to continuous improvement both professionally and personally. We are a collective group of really good people. We have different interests, backgrounds & talents and we work together to create really cool stuff! We believe in diversity of thought and are mindful and inclusive. We have deep respect for each other and work diligently at adding the right people to our teams.
We have flexible schedules but share in the mission that we are building and need to get it done. We offer an excellent suite of benefits.
Our team has the domain knowledge and connections to make an impact, and we're looking for experienced and thoughtful people to who thrive on creating and building great products. We want people who have a true passion for servicing and taking care of our customers. We need people who are flexible problem solvers, thrive on collaboration and consistently know how to communicate their solutions well. We are small and nimble - which is evident in how quickly we could pivot to our new reality. Each member of the team can make a tremendous impact both technically and culturally. While a start-up, we are well-funded, have an initial paying customer with which to test and launch, and are founded by top experts and veterans in the logistics industry.
Join us - you'll love it - let's build a masterpiece!
Benefits
Mastery takes great pride in providing our employees a robust and highly competitive benefit package. Our benefits include Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, company paid Life insurance for 1x salary, Legal, AD&D, Additional Life and other employee assistance benefits. We have a 401k savings plan with a 4% match. We provide opportunities for professional growth and development. We have a manage your life and schedule Paid Time Off program. We are fully devoted to finding creative perks and benefits since we cannot currently enjoy our cool office culture. Our philanthropic partner is St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
We are an equal opportunity employer and actively seek a diverse community of professionals.
About the Role
At Mastery Logistics, we are building a comprehensive cloud-based transportation management service (TMS) to help large shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers manage complex transportation needs. As we continue enrolling customers, we face several complex problems requiring creative, data-intensive solutions to automate operations at scale.
We are seeking a Senior Data Ops Engineer to join our growing Data Infrastructure Operations team. In this role, you'll play a critical part in supporting and optimizing the data platform that powers our data warehouse and reporting products. You'll be responsible for building, maintaining, and enhancing systems that ensure our data pipelines run reliably and efficiently - with a focus on automation, monitoring, and scalability.
You'll work hands-on with our tech stack of modern tooling like Kubernetes (AKS), Airflow, Kafka Connect, Terraform, dbt, Snowflake, and various Azure cloud services.
Responsibilities
- Support and enhance data pipeline infrastructure
- Lead small to medium size projects
- Review and provide feedback on pull requests
- Effectively communicate issues and current status
- Understand and enforce application and data security
- Follow established controls to ensure the accuracy and quality of data through all upstream and downstream data channels
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, DevOps, or a similar infrastructure or platform focused role.
- 2+ years of experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
- Kubernetes experience, especially deploying and managing distributed applications in production environments.
- Experience with change data capture (CDC) pipelines using Kafka and Kafka Connect.
- Experience with columnar data stores and data warehousing with Snowflake.
- Experience with orchestration tools like Airflow.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions, version control, and infrastructure-as-code best practices.
- Proficiency in setting up and managing reliable observability tools - especially New Relic for monitoring and alerting.
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.) and a bias toward automation.
Estimated Compensation:
$120,000 - $140,000 base salary per annum (commensurate with experience and ability)
About Mastery
Mastery Logistics Systems is building the world's first lovable Transportation Management System, or TMS.
Our customers - large transportation companies and shippers who need those companies - have struggled with systems that are outdated or inadequate. As shippers or transportation service providers, our customers have in the past been forced to use multiple systems to manage dedicated fleet operations, outsourced or insourced trans management, one way trucking, truckload brokerage, LTL, and Intermodal, or to sub-optimize one or more of those functions by attempting to fit it into a TMS that is adequate at another function.
Mastermind TMS allows our customers to bring all of these functions into a single platform, providing flexibility, visibility, control, and efficiency. Today's unprecedented global supply chain upheavals underscore how important the transportation industry is. We are building a system to allow this industry to work faster, smarter and more efficiently.
The challenges in this industry are big and exciting! We are tackling everything from fast and efficient data input to ingesting large amounts of data and applying AI to looking at blockchain to securely digitize paperwork. If you are passionate about humanizing an industry, automating in innovative ways, building for quality and scale, helping make people's lives easier and touching every part of our economy then this is the place for you.
Mastery Logistics Systems is committed to continuing to build an incredible company. We are a masterful mosaic of incredible people. We are specialists and experienced in our respective fields. We are dedicated to continuous improvement both professionally and personally. We are a collective group of really good people. We have different interests, backgrounds & talents and we work together to create really cool stuff! We believe in diversity of thought and are mindful and inclusive. We have deep respect for each other and work diligently at adding the right people to our teams.
We have flexible schedules but share in the mission that we are building and need to get it done. We offer an excellent suite of benefits.
Our team has the domain knowledge and connections to make an impact, and we're looking for experienced and thoughtful people to who thrive on creating and building great products. We want people who have a true passion for servicing and taking care of our customers. We need people who are flexible problem solvers, thrive on collaboration and consistently know how to communicate their solutions well. We are small and nimble - which is evident in how quickly we could pivot to our new reality. Each member of the team can make a tremendous impact both technically and culturally. While a start-up, we are well-funded, have an initial paying customer with which to test and launch, and are founded by top experts and veterans in the logistics industry.
Join us - you'll love it - let's build a masterpiece!
Benefits
Mastery takes great pride in providing our employees a robust and highly competitive benefit package. Our benefits include Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, company paid Life insurance for 1x salary, Legal, AD&D, Additional Life and other employee assistance benefits. We have a 401k savings plan with a 4% match. We provide opportunities for professional growth and development. We have a manage your life and schedule Paid Time Off program. We are fully devoted to finding creative perks and benefits since we cannot currently enjoy our cool office culture. Our philanthropic partner is St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
We are an equal opportunity employer and actively seek a diverse community of professionals.
Mastery Logistics Systems Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Our Chicago area offices are located in great areas, West Side & Lake Forest, both accessible to transit with dining, shopping & coffee shops nearby. We also have several offices around the country, all with a mix of remote, hybrid or onsite options available.
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