Senior Cloud/ Data Infrastructure EngineerClient: FinanceLocation: San Antonio, TX (Onsite 4 days)Duration: 6+ Month Contract to Hire (must be on w2 without sponsorship now or in the future)This is a data engineer with cloud/pipeline automation experience.Need: Fivetran/Informatica IDMC/Azure Data Factory/AWS Glue (or similar automation experience)ETL/ELTRequirements:Extensive experience with cloud and data platform infrastructure engineering.Extensive experience with event platforms on-prem or cloud (Kafka, Redpanda, AWS Kinesis, Azure Event Hubs, GCP Pub/Sub), stream processing frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Google Cloud Dataflow).Experience with ETL/ELT tools like Fivetran, and/or Informatica's cloud product, IDMC; demonstrated ability to design, implement, and optimize data pipelines. This includes experience with and automating connector configuration, data transformation, and schema management.Understanding of event-driven architectures, CQRS, and event sourcing.Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).Proven ability to automate tasks and implement CI/CD pipelines.Strong problem-solving and communication skills.Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.Experience with various database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).Experience in supporting real-time analytical needs.