AWS Cloud Data Engineer – Onsite DoD/Zero-Trust Data & AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision/Dental premiums covered

Matching 401K

Disability insurance

Pet Insurance

Professional development reimbursement

Parking and transit benefits

Job summary

Delaware Nation Industries (DNI) seeks a Data Engineer to design, implement, secure, monitor, and optimize cloud-native data solutions supporting data science, AI/ML, agentic services, hosted models, and LLM optimization for JWAC. This onsite role at JWAC in Dahlgren, VA requires TS/SCI/SAP access and hands-on experience with AWS data services, data pipelines, and secure architectures.

You will collaborate with government stakeholders, data scientists, and cloud engineers to deliver scalable

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, computer engineering, data engineering, data science, or a related technical discipline.
• At least three years of full-time experience in computer science, data engineering, or data science, including hands-on software development lifecycle experience.
• Recent experience designing or implementing data engineering solutions or cloud-native systems on AWS.
• At least one year of experience with cloud-native data warehouse or analytics platforms, such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue Data Catalog, or AWS Lake Formation.
• At least one year of experience supporting data science applications and analytical tools such as Python, Jupyter, Amazon SageMaker Studio, AWS Glue DataBrew, or Amazon QuickSight.
• Experience preparing data for data scientists, including data preparation, feature engineering, and model-ready dataset construction.
• At least one year of experience implementing cloud-native data security controls, including IAM, encryption, and network segmentation.
• Ability to meet DoD 8140.03 requirements for the applicable work roles, including Primary Work Role 422 – Data Architect (Intermediate).
• Ability to obtain and maintain the required TS/SCI/SAP access.
• Ability to work onsite in Dahlgren, Virginia, during established core hours and support scheduled maintenance activities as required.

Responsibilities

• Design and tune end-to-end cloud-native data engineering solutions on the AWS platform.
• Develop and administer data ingestion, ETL, integration, transformation, validation, publication, and lifecycle-management workflows.
• Integrate structured and unstructured data from databases, web services, message traffic, data dumps, documents, and other sources.
• Design data architectures and managed data stores that support analytics, feature engineering, model training, and real-time inference.
• Develop solutions using AWS services such as AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue Data Catalog, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon DynamoDB.
• Create REST APIs and web services to expose data to JWAC-developed applications and analytical systems.
• Support AI/ML infrastructure, including model hosting, model-ready datasets, agentic workflow orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LLM integration and optimization.
• Develop automation, monitoring, alerting, and self-healing capabilities using AWS-native tools such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail.
• Implement data discovery and search capabilities using services such as Amazon OpenSearch Service, AWS Glue Data Catalog, and Amazon Kendra.
• Apply FinOps practices, including resource tagging, cost allocation, right-sizing, storage tiering, query optimization, budget monitoring, cost-per-workload analysis, and AI/LLM cost tracking.
• Implement DoD Zero Trust and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 security controls across data engineering and AI service environments.
• Configure identity and access management, least-privilege access, encryption at rest and in transit, network segmentation, certificate management, and security monitoring.
• Support security assessments, compliance documentation, data-flow diagrams, control mappings, and authorization activities.
• Gather requirements, evaluate data sources, communicate technical recommendations, and document architecture, processes, costs, risks, and implementation decisions.
• Develop briefings, technical proposals, operating procedures, user documentation, training materials, and knowledge-transfer products.
• Collaborate with Government stakeholders, data scientists, analysts, cybersecurity personnel, cloud engineers, and other technical teams.

Skills

Data engineering

AWS cloud

Python

Jupyter

SageMaker Studio

Feature engineering

Security controls

Data pipelines

APIs

Education

B.S. in computer science / engineering / data science

Tools

AWS Glue

Amazon Redshift

Athena

Kinesis

Lake Formation

Glue Data Catalog

RDS

Aurora

DynamoDB

OpenSearch Service

Kendra

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Job description

Delaware Nation Industries (DNI) seeks a Data Engineer to design, implement, secure, monitor, and optimize cloud-native data solutions supporting data science, AI/ML, agentic services, hosted models, and LLM optimization for JWAC. This onsite role at JWAC in Dahlgren, VA requires TS/SCI/SAP access and hands-on experience with AWS data services, data pipelines, and secure architectures.

You will collaborate with government stakeholders, data scientists, and cloud engineers to deliver scalable