Cloud Data Platform Engineer #1868549

Network Designs Inc.•, VA

1d•Remote

About The Position

NDi is seeking a Cloud Data Platform Engineer to support the FAA Chief Data Office Enterprise Information & Data Integration Program (EIDIP). This role designs, operates, and continuously improves the core compute, storage, distributed-processing, automation, monitoring, and recovery services that enable enterprise data and analytics platforms across cloud and hybrid environments.

Requirements

U.S. Citizenship is required
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
This position is remote, candidate must reside in one of the following states: AL, AZ, DC, FL, GA, ID, MD, MS, NJ, NC, OK, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV
Occasional travel may be required. Candidates should be able to attend meetings at FAA facilities and other locations throughout the Continental United States (CONUS) as required.
Must be available during Eastern Time (ET) business hours to support program needs and FAA coordination.
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.
Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Contractor Personnel Suitability.
Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

FAA or other federal experience and experience supporting regulated enterprise platforms.
Experience with cloud modernization, distributed data processing, platform migrations, production operations, and high-availability environments.
Experience spanning servers, networks, distributed platforms, databases, data pipelines, and enterprise monitoring.
Relevant AWS, infrastructure, Linux, or platform-engineering certifications

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.