AWS/Cloud Data Engineer – Remote/DC

JCDS has a need for a Cloud Data Engineer to work closely with a federal client and their data program team to develop tools and infrastructure for data processing use cases. This position offers a great opportunity to be part of a high-performing team responsible for supporting a high-velocity data-driven environment. If you are interested in a challenge and a great working environment, apply today!

Responsibilities:

The specific duties include but are not necessarily limited to the following:

• Design and implement data infrastructure, data pipelines, and data products in cloud environments with a focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Write Cloudformation code to deploy AWS resources using automated tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, and/or AWS CodePipeline.
• Provide cloud engineering knowledge to help drive technical and architectural decisions.
• Migrate existing on-premise workloads and applications to the cloud, redesigning as necessary to adapt to cloud-native technologies and an elastic and scalable architecture, taking into account meeting performance requirements and minimizing cost and operational overhead.
• Provide leadership in data and application migration methodologies and techniques.
• Implement cybersecurity controls and best practices in a cloud context and apply privacy and data integrity safeguards.
• Nurture cloud computing expertise internally to drive cloud adoption.
• Advise on mechanics of migrating 100+ TBs of data into the cloud and facilitating access to disparate sets of user applications in a diverse range of environments.
• Adapt database workloads and infrastructure to a cloud setting.
• Develop strategy for regular, automated intake and processing of data via pipelines developed using cloud technologies such as AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and/or open source tools such as Apache Airflow.
• Analyze performance of cloud implementations, develop monitoring strategies, and ensure acceptable throughput and interoperability metrics.
• Document strategies, guiding principles, and best practices to drive standardization
• Apply expertise in using a Linux environment in the cloud to run custom and third-party applications
• Use agile methodologies and DevOps best practices, and maintain code and documentation in both enterprise and public GitHub repositories.
• Advise on the architecture and setup of an Enterprise Data Lake, Data Warehouse(s), and Data Hubs.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust background check.
• BA/BS in Communications, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3+ years of specialized experience in the following areas:
• Migrating from local server environments to AWS, including movement of large amounts of data.
• Working with compliance teams such as Cybersecurity to ensure design meets security requirements.
• Monitoring and performance tuning cloud workloads.
• Designing and implementing cloud architectures including infrastructure components and shared service migration strategies.
• Advocating for the technical merits and value proposition of cloud computing.
• Data engineering work with a focus on AWS cloud services.
• Hands-on development experience with Amazon Redshift, RDS, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch or other data services technologies in the AWS space.
• Sharing knowledge and awareness of alternative cloud environments and services.
• Demonstrating excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
• Determining and prioritizing work tasks, including identifying and proposing new work.
• Meeting deadlines in an organized manner.
• Documenting and recommending best practices and articulating process improvements and required changes.
• Demonstrating excellent communication skills and ability to work with customers, and other technical teams.
• Working with Linux-based server environments.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of the data management

Location: Washington, DC (Due to COVID-19, on-site client work has been suspended until further notice)

 

Posted On: Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Compensation: ~150k