Remote Cloud Data Platform Engineer - AWS & EMR Expert

Network Designs

McLean (VA)

Remote

USD 130,000 - 165,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Network Designs, Inc. (NDi) is seeking a Cloud Data Platform Engineer to support the FAA EIDIP. You will design, operate, and continuously improve core platform services enabling enterprise data, analytics, and AI/ML workloads across cloud and hybrid environments.

Required 6+ years in systems engineering with hands-on AWS, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, EMR, and Glue. Candidates must reside in eligible states and be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance. Remote role with occasional CONUS travel.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or a relevant field.
Minimum 6 years of systems engineering or similar professional experience.
Hands-on experience with AWS, Linux, infrastructure automation, Terraform, Ansible, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and monitoring frameworks.
Experience researching, designing, architecting, and implementing complex IT solutions across heterogeneous enterprise environments.
Experience with multiple hardware and software environments and leading projects through the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Design, operate, and continuously improve core platform services supporting enterprise data, analytics, application, and AI/ML workloads.
Manage compute, storage, distributed-processing frameworks, platform configuration, automation, upgrades, and production stability across cloud and hybrid environments.
Engineer and sustain AWS-based platform capabilities, including EMR, Glue, Linux services, monitoring frameworks, and related platform dependencies.
Develop and maintain infrastructure automation with Terraform, Ansible, and approved CI/CD and configuration-management tooling.
Monitor availability, capacity, performance logs, vulnerabilities, backup, recovery, and operational health and establish actionable metrics and alerts.
Support platform modernization, migration pilots, release cycles, scaling, resiliency improvements, and operational transition.
Troubleshoot complex platform and infrastructure incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and implement durable corrective actions.
Create and maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, SOPs, environment documentation, operational procedures, and security evidence.
Coordinate with enterprise, solution, integration, cloud, data, database, DevOps, application, and security teams to resolve dependencies and implementation risks.