[Hiring] Cloud Data Platform Engineer @Network Designs Inc.

Role Description

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.

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
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Contractor Personnel Suitability
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration skills

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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, pet, and legal insurance
• 401(k) retirement matching
• Paid leave and paid holidays
• Health and wellness programs
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Professional development and education benefits
• Resources to thrive on and off the job

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