Cloud Data Platform Administrator

Title: Cloud Data Platform Administrator.
Location:  Washington, DC - 100% Remote.
Duration: 10+ Months Contract (possible to extend).

Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional.

 Job description:

Cloud Data Platform Administrator is the hands-on technical resource responsible for implementing, securing, and operating EDP. This role is accountable for platform operations, security, and governance configuration end-to-end—ensuring the environment is compliant, reliable, cost-controlled, and enables secure analytics and AI/ML workloads at scale.

Required Experience:

• Identity & Access Management proficiency: SSO concepts, SCIM provisioning, group based RBAC, service principals, least-privilege patterns.
• Security fundamentals: secrets management, secure connectivity, audit logging, access monitoring, and evidence-ready operations.
• Automation skills: IaC using Terraform, CLI, and REST APIs for repeatable configuration and environment promotion.
• 3 years'' experience building AWS Infrastructure using Terraform. 
• 3 years'' experience building CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps or Gitlab. 
• CI/CD practices for promotion across SDLC environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving; communicate clearly during incidents and changes.
• Cloud platform expertise (AWS ): IAM roles/policies, object storage security patterns, networking basics (VPC concepts), logging/monitoring integration.
• Hands-on experience with AWS security and networking services including Private Link, Secrets Manager/Systems Manager integration, CloudWatch/CloudTrail integration, S3 bucket policies, cross-account access patterns, and KMS encryption key management.

Education / Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Highly valued(Desirable, but not required) knowledge, skills, and experience

• SQL proficiency and data engineering fundamentals for troubleshooting query performance issues, understanding ETL/ELT workflow patterns, and debugging data pipeline failures; basic Python/Scala familiarity for notebook/code issue diagnosis.
• Experience with compliance and regulatory frameworks (FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC2, or similar) including implementation of data residency requirements, retention policies, and audit-ready evidence collection.
• SLA/SLO management, incident management, and stakeholder communication skills; ability to define platform service levels, produce operational reports, translate technical issues to business stakeholders, and manage vendor relationships (Databricks account teams).

The Contractor shall deliver, but not limited to, the following:

• Implement platform monitoring/alerting, operational dashboards, and health checks; maintain runbooks and operational procedures.
• Provision and administer AWS GovCloud infrastructure components supporting EDP environments (networking, compute, storage, IAM, logging/monitoring).
• Implement and maintain standardized “secure-by-default” configurations aligned to agency security requirements (baseline hardening, patching coordination, configuration management).
• Operate cloud services supporting data and analytics platforms (e.g., storage integrations, encryption/KMS patterns, secure service endpoints, VPC constructs).
• Establish and maintain operational monitoring/alerting, health checks, runbooks, and incident support in coordination with platform and security teams.
• Manage change control for upgrades, feature rollouts, configuration changes, and integration changes, document impacts and rollback plans.
• Enable and maintain audit logging and access/event visibility, support security reviews and evidence requests.
• Configure logging and auditability (e.g., CloudTrail/CloudWatch patterns) and support evidence collection for security/compliance activities.
• Coordinate secure networking patterns (private connectivity, egress controls, firewall/proxy constraints) with network and security stakeholders.
• Build and manage POC environments (isolated accounts/VPCs where applicable), ensuring repeatability, cost controls, and safe teardown.
• Coordinate secure connectivity and guardrails with cloud/network teams: private connectivity patterns, egress controls, firewall/proxy needs.
• Implement cost guardrails: cluster policies, auto-termination, scheduling, workload sizing standards, and capacity planning.
• Produce usage/cost insights and optimization recommendations; address waste drivers (idle compute, oversized clusters, inefficient jobs).
• Automate administration and configuration using APIs/CLI/IaC (e.g., Terraform) to reduce manual drift and improve repeatability.
• Maintain platform documentation: configuration baselines, security/governance standards, onboarding guides, and troubleshooting references.
• Manage third-party integrations and ecosystem connectivity, including BI tool integrations (e.g., Power BI), and external metadata catalog integrations.
• Conduct capacity planning and scalability analysis, including forecasting concurrent user/workload growth, platform scaling strategies, and proactive resource allocation during peak usage periods.
• Facilitate user onboarding and enablement, including new user/team onboarding procedures, training coordination, workspace access provisioning, and creation of self service documentation/guides.

 Thank you for your time and I look forward to receiving your reply today.