Jobs / Delaware Nation Industries
Cloud Engineer - AWS Data Platforms
Delaware Nation Industries · Dahlgren, VA, United States
Dahlgren, VA, United StatesExp: 3+ yrs150,000-170,000 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
$150,000-$170,000; employee benefit premiums, 401(k) matching, disability coverage, pet insurance, professional development reimbursement, and parking and transit benefits
Location
Dahlgren, VA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Designs, deploys, and improves AWS cloud environments supporting data pipelines, analytics, search, and AI/ML workloads in a Department of Defense setting. The role combines infrastructure automation and cloud operations with AWS data services such as Glue, Athena, Redshift, and Kinesis, Kubernetes-based workloads, security controls, and performance and cost monitoring.
Benefits
Employee medical, vision, and dental benefit premiums covered401(k) matchingShort- and long-term disabilityPet insuranceProfessional development and education reimbursementParking and transit benefits
Qualifications
- At least three years of relevant cloud, platform, infrastructure, or software-delivery experience.
- Hands-on AWS experience that includes building or automating delivery, not only routine administration.
- Coding or scripting experience for infrastructure automation, integrations, deployment, monitoring, or operational workflows.
- Experience with cloud security fundamentals, including identity and access management, encryption, network controls, logging, or continuous monitoring.
- Ability to work onsite in Dahlgren, Virginia.
- Ability to obtain and maintain required TS/SCI and SAP access, as applicable to the assignment.
- Ability to meet applicable DoD workforce qualification requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain AWS environments for data ingestion, processing, storage, search, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
- Build scalable, cost-aware solutions using AWS managed, serverless, and platform services.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and recovery.
- Support containerized and Kubernetes-based workloads alongside AWS-native services.
- Partner with developers to deploy and operate data pipelines, APIs, integrations, and workflow automation.
- Apply access controls, encryption, network protections, logging, monitoring, and security checks.
- Monitor availability, performance, utilization, and cost; recommend right-sizing and managed or serverless alternatives.
- Document architecture, deployment decisions, operating procedures, risks, and cost considerations.
Skills
AthenaAWSAWS GlueIAMKinesisKubernetesRedshiftCloud MonitoringBashCloudWatchDockerGitHub ActionsPrometheusPythonRESTS3Terraform
Certifications
Relevant AWS, Kubernetes, cloud security, or infrastructure certifications
Degrees
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, data science, or a
Industry
Department of Defense
Security clearance
TS/SCISAP
Relocation
No