Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Network Designs, Inc. is a federal contractor specializing in information technology and network solutions for government customers. The company is seeking a Cloud Data Platform Engineer to design, operate, and improve compute, storage, distributed-processing, automation, monitoring, and recovery services supporting enterprise data and analytics platforms across cloud and hybrid environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and continuously improve core platform services supporting enterprise data, analytics, application, and AI/ML workloads
- Manage compute, storage, distributed-processing frameworks, platform configuration, automation, upgrades, and production stability across cloud and hybrid environments
- Engineer and sustain AWS-based platform capabilities, including EMR, Glue, Linux services, monitoring frameworks, and related platform dependencies
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation with Terraform, Ansible, and approved CI/CD and configuration-management tooling
- Monitor availability, capacity, performance, logs, vulnerabilities, backup, recovery, and operational health and establish actionable metrics and alerts
- Support platform modernization, migration pilots, release cycles, scaling, resiliency improvements, and operational transition
- Troubleshoot complex platform and infrastructure incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and implement durable corrective actions
- Create and maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, SOPs, environment documentation, operational procedures, and security evidence
- Coordinate with enterprise, solution, integration, cloud, data, database, DevOps, application, and security teams to resolve dependencies and implementation risks
Skills
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- This position is remote, candidate must reside in one of the following states: AL, AZ, DC, FL, GA, ID, MD, MS, NJ, NC, OK, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV
- Occasional travel may be required. Candidates should be able to attend meetings at FAA facilities and other locations throughout the Continental United States (CONUS) as required
- Must be available during Eastern Time (ET) business hours to support program needs and FAA coordination
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or a relevant field
- Minimum 6 years of systems engineering or similar professional experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Linux, infrastructure automation, Terraform, Ansible, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and monitoring frameworks
- Experience researching, designing, architecting, and implementing complex IT solutions across heterogeneous enterprise environments
- Experience with multiple hardware and software environments and leading projects through the software development lifecycle
- Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Contractor Personnel Suitability
- Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- FAA or other federal experience and experience supporting regulated enterprise platforms
- Experience with cloud modernization, distributed data processing, platform migrations, production operations, and high-availability environments
- Experience spanning servers, networks, distributed platforms, databases, data pipelines, and enterprise monitoring
- Relevant AWS, infrastructure, Linux, or platform-engineering certifications
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement, with candidates residing in one of the listed states
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Pet insurance
- Legal insurance
- 401(k) retirement matching
- Paid leave
- Paid holidays
- Health and wellness programs
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Employer-paid disability insurance
- Professional development
- Education benefits
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