AWS Data Platform Cloud Engineer - Automation & Analytics

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical (PPO/HDHP) for employee

Vision

Dental

Matching 401K

Disability (short & long-term)

Professional Development/Education Re-

Parking and Transit Benefits for NY,NJ

Parking and Transit Benefits for DC/MD

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Delaware Nation Industries seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize AWS cloud environments that power data pipelines, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. You will automate infrastructure provisioning, implement security controls, and collaborate with developers to deliver scalable solutions for DoD‑level requirements.

The role requires hands-on AWS experience, scripting for automation, and the ability to work onsite at JWAC in Dahlgren, VA with TS/SCI/SAP eligibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 3+ years of cloud/infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, or operating AWS cloud services.
• Coding or scripting for automation and delivery.
• Experience with cloud security fundamentals (IAM, encryption, logging).
• Ability to work onsite at JWAC in Dahlgren, VA and obtain TS/SCI and SAP access; DoD compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS cloud environments for data pipelines, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
• Utilize AWS services like Glue, Athena, Redshift, Kinesis, Lake Formation, and RDS as appropriate.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and recovery with IaC and CI/CD.
• Support containerized or Kubernetes-based workloads alongside AWS services.
• Collaborate with developers to deploy data pipelines, APIs, integrations, and workflow automation; troubleshoot cloud platform and apps.
• Implement IAM, encryption, network controls, logging, and monitoring; enforce security checks.
• Monitor availability, performance, utilization, and cost; right-size and consider serverless options.
• Document architecture, deployment decisions, procedures, risks, and costs; communicate with Government stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Automation scripting

Python/Shell scripting

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Data Science or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Delaware Nation Industries seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize AWS cloud environments that power data pipelines, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. You will automate infrastructure provisioning, implement security controls, and collaborate with developers to deliver scalable solutions for DoD‑level requirements.

The role requires hands-on AWS experience, scripting for automation, and the ability to work onsite at JWAC in Dahlgren, VA with TS/SCI/SAP eligibility.