Senior Denodo Platform Administrator

Role Overview

Join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a Senior Denodo Platform Administrator to lead reliability, performance, security, and lifecycle management of the Laboratory's Denodo data virtualization platform. This role is part of the Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Division within the Computing Directorate, supporting the Strategic Deterrence Applications Program and the Nuclear Security Enterprise-wide (NSE) PRIDE Program.

What You Will Do

Administer and engineer the Denodo platform across development, test, and production environments, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, lifecycle planning, and establishing operational standards, architecture patterns, and reliability targets for mission-critical data virtualization services.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This position requires an on-site presence multiple days a week, and the ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience
• Significant hands-on experience administering Denodo in production, including upgrades, patching, configuration management, security hardening, and troubleshooting
• Demonstrated experience leading platform reliability outcomes, such as defining service health metrics, building monitoring/alerting, and driving incident reduction through automation and engineering improvements
• Advanced experience tuning and optimizing Denodo performance, including query profiling, view design, caching strategies, connection pooling, and minimizing impact on source systems
• Advanced experience integrating Denodo with enterprise authentication and authorization systems, and implementing audit and compliance controls
• Strong understanding of data integration patterns across relational databases and analytics ecosystems, and the ability to diagnose end-to-end latency across networks, middleware, and data sources
• Experience building automation for platform operations using scripting and orchestration, such as Python, Ansible, and Shell, and using version control and CI/CD workflows

Benefits

• Flexible Benefits Package
• 401(k)
• Relocation Assistance
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Flexible schedules
• Wireless and Medical Devices