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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, and troubleshooting references.
• Manage third-party integrations and ecosystem connectivity, including BI tool integrations (e.g., Power BI), and external metadata catalog integrations.
• Conduct capacity planning and scalability analysis, including forecasting concurrent user/workload growth, platform scaling strategies, and proactive resource allocation during peak usage periods.
• Facilitate user onboarding and enablement, including new user/team onboarding procedures, training coordination, workspace access provisioning, and creation of self-service documentation/guides.
Personnel Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Business Administration Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with integration, systems analysis, or programming experience within Cloud environments.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing systems requirements and design specifications.
• At least seven years' demonstrated experience in:
• Developing software according to software development lifecycles (SDLCs), including DevOps, Agile, Lean, Iterative, or Waterfall.
• Designing, deploying, and migrating secure and maintainable systems for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
• Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments.
• DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and related best practices for cloud deployment.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or ServiceNow.
• Proficient in at least one high-level programming languages such as Python, Ruby, or Go.
Capabilities
• Understanding of and ability to evaluate new technologies for fit in current infrastructure architecture.
• Understanding of cloud-based architectures, web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage.
• Familiarity with loose coupling, stateless systems, and best practices for designing cloud-ready applications.
• Understanding of cloud federation technologies such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect and how to apply these technologies to enterprise and public-facing applications.
• Awareness of cloud information security risks and best practices, especially in highly secure operating environment.
• Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud ready architecture.
• Experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP, and OSI Network.
• Familiarity with government cloud deployment regulations/compliance policies such as FedRAMP, FISMA, etc.
Interview:
Selected candidates will participate in a phone screening. Those that pass the phone screening may be invited to an in-person interview (for local candidates). The use of video conference tools (e.g., MS Teams or WebEx) can be used in accordance with agency guidelines.
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