Cloud Data Platform Administrator, fully Remote, with our direct client

Indotronix International Corporation; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Indotronix International is seeking a Cloud Data Platform Administrator for a fully remote role, with hybrid options for occasional client-site visits in Washington, DC. The role focuses on implementing, securing, and operating the Enterprise Data Platform to support secure analytics and AI/ML workloads at scale.

The candidate will lead IAM, security, and automation efforts, build CI/CD pipelines with Terraform, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.

Qualifications

• Identity & Access Management: SSO, SCIM provisioning, RBAC, service principals.
• Security fundamentals: secrets management, audit logging, secure connectivity.
• Automation: IaC using Terraform, CLI, REST APIs.
• 3 years' AWS Infrastructure experience with Terraform.
• 3 years' CI/CD experience; promotion across SDLC environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident communication.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• AWS platform expertise: IAM roles/policies, VPC basics, logging.
• Hands-on AWS security & networking services including PrivateLink, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch/CloudTrail.

Responsibilities

• Implement platform monitoring, dashboards, and health checks.
• Provision and administer AWS GovCloud infrastructure components.
• Maintain secure-by-default configurations aligned to security requirements.
• Operate cloud services for data and analytics platforms.
• Establish monitoring, alerts, runbooks, and incident support with security teams.
• Manage change control for upgrades and configuration changes; document rollback plans.
• Enable audit logging and evidence collection for compliance.
• Coordinate secure networking patterns with network and security stakeholders.
• Build and manage POC environments with cost controls.
• Automate administration using APIs/CLI/IaC to reduce drift.
• Maintain platform documentation: baselines, governance, onboarding guides.

Skills

Identity & Access Management

Security fundamentals

Automation

Terraform

CI/CD

Azure DevOps or GitLab

Troubleshooting

Bachelor's degree

AWS cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitLab

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Job description

Indotronix is seeking a Cloud Data Platform Administrator, fully Remote, with our direct client

Position: Cloud Data Platform Administrator

Location: Fully Remote candidates will be considered. Hybrid candidates who can come in person up to twice a month at client locations in Washington, DC will given preference.

Duration: 9 months

USC and GC

Project Description:

The Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) empowers the Board to confidently use trusted, standardized, and well governed data to drive insight and innovation.

Background:

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

The candidate shall also demonstrate the below knowledge and 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.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 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 PrivateLink, Secrets Manager/Systems Manager integration, CloudWatch/CloudTrail integration, S3 bucket policies, cross-account access patterns, and KMS encryption key management.

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).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional

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,