AWS Cloud Data Engineer - DoD-Sec AI/ML Infra

DNI (Delaware Nation Industries); Dahlgren (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium benefits coverage

401K matching

Disability insurance

Education reimbursement

Job summary

DNI is seeking a highly qualified Data Engineer to support the Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC) in Dahlgren, Virginia. This onsite role focuses on cloud-native data engineering, security controls, and AI/ML infrastructure within a TS/SCI/SAP environment.

You will design, implement, and optimize data pipelines using AWS services, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant data processing for data science and LLM optimization efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in computer science, computer engineering, data engineering, data science, or related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of full-time experience in computer science, data engineering, or data science.
• Recent experience designing or implementing data engineering solutions on AWS.
• Experience with cloud-native data warehouses/analytics on AWS (Redshift, Athena, Glue Catalog, Lake Formation).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize cloud-native data engineering solutions on AWS.
• Develop and manage data ingestion, ETL, integration, transformation, and validation workflows.
• Integrate structured and unstructured data from diverse sources.
• Architect data stores supporting analytics, model training, and real-time inference.
• Create REST APIs and web services to expose data for JWAC applications.
• Support AI/ML infrastructure including model hosting and RAG/LMM integration.
• Implement monitoring, security, and cost controls across data pipelines.
• Collaborate with Government stakeholders, data scientists, and cloud engineers.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud architecture

Security awareness

Python

Education

Bachelor of Science in CS/CE/DS

Tools

AWS Glue

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Athena

Amazon Kinesis

AWS Lake Formation

Amazon DynamoDB

REST APIs

Job description

DNI is seeking a highly qualified Data Engineer to support the Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC) in Dahlgren, Virginia. This onsite role focuses on cloud-native data engineering, security controls, and AI/ML infrastructure within a TS/SCI/SAP environment.

You will design, implement, and optimize data pipelines using AWS services, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant data processing for data science and LLM optimization efforts.