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Top Secret/SCI
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
Unspecified
No Traveling
IT - Software
Gaithersburg, MD (On-Site/Office)•Chantilly, VA (On-Site/Office)
AWS System Engineer
Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: Onsite – Gaithersburg, MD or Chantilly, VA
Salary: 140K+
Primary Responsibilities:
• Serve as a Databricks administrator, managing workspace configuration, user roles, cluster performance, and troubleshooting.
• Support AWS infrastructure services including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, and Lambda to maintain secure and scalable systems.
• Collaborate with data scientists, developers, and mission analysts to understand system requirements and translate them into effective engineering solutions.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for consistent and repeatable deployments.
• Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives.
• Assist with system integration, security hardening, and operational readiness reviews.
• Produce and maintain system documentation in accordance with customer standards.
Basic Qualifications:
• US citizenship is required per contract.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years or prior relevant experience or Master’s with 6+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience administering and supporting Databricks environments in an enterprise or mission-critical setting.
• Proven experience managing cloud infrastructure in AWS, including services like EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and networking components.
• Experience developing and testing automation scripts.
• Experience documenting work instructions and configurations.
• Experience with manipulating data with Microsoft Excel, especially transforming and graphing data.
• Experience developing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, importing images and graphs.
• Familiarity with security and compliance best practices in a classified cloud environment.
• Have or is willing to obtain within 6 months Security+ CE (or similar), required for privileged user (admin) access.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams and using tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently or collaboratively in a fast-paced setting.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience supporting DoD or IC customers
• Familiarity with the IC customer mission systems and data handling standards.
• Knowledge of containerization (e.g., Docker, ECS, EKS).
• Experience with Python (Pandas, Boto3, PySpark, MLOps), Java or Scala in a data engineering context.
• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional)
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Bash, and Bash Scripting.
• Experience with Databricks, Jupyter Notebook, Microsoft Power Query and Power Pivot.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, including advanced performance tuning, query plan analysis, and indexing strategies.
• Experience with transforming data and join/merge with other data sets sharing a common key.
• Software Architectures: Client-Server, Microservices, Model-View-Controller.
• Cloud Exposure:
o Multi-cloud architectures: AWS, IBM, Google, Azure, and Oracle.
o Specific AWS Services: Compute (EC2, Lambda), Storage (S3, EBS), Security, Identity & Compliance (IAM, IdAM, KMS), SQS, SNS, and CloudFormation.
o Certifications such as AWS DevOps Engineer or similar.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and delivery tools: Jenkins, GitLab, and Docker.
Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: Onsite – Gaithersburg, MD or Chantilly, VA
Salary: 140K+
Primary Responsibilities:
• Serve as a Databricks administrator, managing workspace configuration, user roles, cluster performance, and troubleshooting.
• Support AWS infrastructure services including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, and Lambda to maintain secure and scalable systems.
• Collaborate with data scientists, developers, and mission analysts to understand system requirements and translate them into effective engineering solutions.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for consistent and repeatable deployments.
• Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives.
• Assist with system integration, security hardening, and operational readiness reviews.
• Produce and maintain system documentation in accordance with customer standards.
Basic Qualifications:
• US citizenship is required per contract.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years or prior relevant experience or Master’s with 6+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience administering and supporting Databricks environments in an enterprise or mission-critical setting.
• Proven experience managing cloud infrastructure in AWS, including services like EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and networking components.
• Experience developing and testing automation scripts.
• Experience documenting work instructions and configurations.
• Experience with manipulating data with Microsoft Excel, especially transforming and graphing data.
• Experience developing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, importing images and graphs.
• Familiarity with security and compliance best practices in a classified cloud environment.
• Have or is willing to obtain within 6 months Security+ CE (or similar), required for privileged user (admin) access.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams and using tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently or collaboratively in a fast-paced setting.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience supporting DoD or IC customers
• Familiarity with the IC customer mission systems and data handling standards.
• Knowledge of containerization (e.g., Docker, ECS, EKS).
• Experience with Python (Pandas, Boto3, PySpark, MLOps), Java or Scala in a data engineering context.
• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional)
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Bash, and Bash Scripting.
• Experience with Databricks, Jupyter Notebook, Microsoft Power Query and Power Pivot.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, including advanced performance tuning, query plan analysis, and indexing strategies.
• Experience with transforming data and join/merge with other data sets sharing a common key.
• Software Architectures: Client-Server, Microservices, Model-View-Controller.
• Cloud Exposure:
o Multi-cloud architectures: AWS, IBM, Google, Azure, and Oracle.
o Specific AWS Services: Compute (EC2, Lambda), Storage (S3, EBS), Security, Identity & Compliance (IAM, IdAM, KMS), SQS, SNS, and CloudFormation.
o Certifications such as AWS DevOps Engineer or similar.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and delivery tools: Jenkins, GitLab, and Docker.
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