cARMY Cloud Data Engineer

Description

About Our Team

Our core values of People Matter, Building a Legacy, being Catalysts for Transformation, and a Commitment to Excellence. drive all that we do. By joining us, you’ll become a part of a fun and diverse team of talented and creative consultants who share the goal of using the latest technology to solve business challenges. We provide our clients with a dynamic mix of services and deliver focused solutions like no one else.

We're seeking talented and bright team players who are passionate about technology and want to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and ego-free culture while applying a creative approach to problem-solving. Team members who like to grow their skill sets while solving challenging, real world business problems thrive on our team.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior cARMY/AWS Cloud Engineer to join our fast-growing IT-project based consulting business. We're looking for a well-rounded team member to design and configure cloud native data platforms and services. Our engineer will contribute to Army’s digital transformation efforts by consolidating and transitioning 14 legacy systems into a single automated solution in cARMY to provide real-time holistic data for up to 160,000 users. Our engineer will recommend tools and solutions based on customer requirements and their expert knowledge of AWS GovCloud data services. A thorough knowledge and understanding of various AWS data services and tools is critical to this role.

We're seeking talented and bright consultants who are passionate about technology and want to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and ego-free culture while applying a creative approach to problem-solving. By joining our team, you’ll become a part of a fun and diverse team of talented and creative people who share the goal of using the latest technology to solve customer challenges. You’ll work with a team to help our client overcome their most difficult challenges in the cloud. Additionally, you’ll grow your skills in areas like DataOps, cloud-based security, agile at scale, and Zero Trust Architecture

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop, implement, and configure cloud system administration environments and tools.
• Have ability to understand customer requirements and make appropriate tool/service recommendations.
• Use AWS data services to build robust and compliant applications.
• Design and implement data ingestion pipelines using AWS services such as DMS, DataSync, Glue, Athena, Lambda, S3, RDS, and Step Functions
• Develop and optimize data processing and storage strategies, ensuring efficient data flow within the AWS ecosystem
• Architect and build AWS-based data lakes, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
• Support Cloud architects in designing the data architecture
• Implement security controls and security features to support and address cybersecurity challenges on PaaS and IaaS environments.
• Provide technical expertise in range of cloud technologies to include cloud development, cloud data analytics and data management, cloud architecture and Agile development methodologies.
• Complete CMAP documentation to include but not limited to system descriptions and network diagrams.
• Complete Common Access Request (CAR) documentation and validating correct configuration.
• Collaborate with development teams to design, code, evaluate, implement, and maintain an optimal cloud solution applications software that is delivered on time and within budget throughout the full system life cycle
• Apply consulting and technical expertise and full industry knowledge, on AWS GovCloud cloud solution tailoring.
• Develop or support innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Define, communicate, and implement cloud architecture and administration processes for GovCloud platforms.
• Apply technical expertise and industry knowledge to programs and projects.
• Work with minimal supervision within established procedures and practices and serve as informal lead or mentor to junior team members.
• Actively participate on an Agile-Scrum team to understand the business challenge, the definition of success, and the use cases being implemented
• Recommend AWS cloud solutions to meet the needs of the business, suggest alternatives
• Build a cloud-based technical architecture that meets the needs and takes advantage of cloud capabilities
• Implement AWS services to improve security posture
• Perform any required on-premises to cloud migration
• Provide technical support on the AWS environment
• Document aspects of the AWS environment

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum five (5) years of experience as a Cloud Data Engineer.
• Minimum one (1) year experience with AWS GovCloud
• Bachelors Degree or commensurate experience
• Experience building, operating, and maintaining compliant computing environments in AWS
• Solid understanding of various AWS Data services
• Experience and knowledge of AWS data analytics tools such as Athena, Glue, RedShift, RDS, Step Functions and other AWS native databases
• Experience and knowledge of AWS data management tools such as AWS Lake Formation ,Amazon S3, DMS, Datasync,
• Strong knowledge of database design, data modeling, and data warehousing principles
• Experience with data migrations from legacy on-premises systems to AWS cloud
• Experience with AWS cloud-native infrastructure (e.g. VPC, Security Groups, IAM Policies)
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java)
• Have an understanding of technologies like Git, Jenkins, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Python, HTML
• Have a solid understanding of several AWS native applications including WAF, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Transcribe, Simple Queue Service (SQS), QuickSight, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, or Cognito.
• Have the ability to create and convey the architectural vision for a program or project.
• Have the ability to establish and enforce standards and practices.
• Have experience working with Army or other Federal agencies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Military experienced candidates are encouraged to apply.
• Experience working in cARMY cloud environment is a plus
• Experience working with Appian's data fabric is a plus
• Experience working with Qlik is a plus
• AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty or AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty certification is a plus
• Good understanding of DISA cloud computing security requirements guide (SRG) is a plus
• Current Secret Clearance or ability to obtain one
• Current CompTIA Security+ certification or ability to obtain one