AWS Cloud Data Platform Administrator

job summary:

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Data Platform Administrator to manage secure automate and optimize enterprise grade data platforms hosted on AWS The role is accountable for platform availability performance governance cost efficiency and operational excellence across data engineering analytics and integration services incident management and task execution The ideal candidate brings strong AWS administration expertise hands-on experience with modern data platforms and a proven ability to support business critical workloads in production environments

location: Raritan, New Jersey
job type: Contract
salary: $55 - 65 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:

• Administer and support AWS based data platforms across development test staging and production environments
• Manage services such as Amazon S3 Redshift RDSAurora Glue EMR Athena Lake Formation Kinesis Lambda DMS Step Functions and CloudWatch
• Provision and configure cloud resources using infrastructureascode tools such as Terraform AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK
• Implement identity and access controls using IAM roles policies permission boundaries AWS Organizations and service control policies
• Monitor platform health capacity job execution data pipelines storage and query performance proactively identify and resolve issues
• Perform incident problem change release and servicerequest management in accordance with defined SLAs and ITIL practices
• Optimize Redshift clusters SparkEMR workloads storage tiers data transfer and compute consumption for performance and cost
• Implement backup recovery highavailability businesscontinuity and disasterrecovery controls conduct periodic restoration and failover tests
• Secure data using encryption key management private networking secrets management logging vulnerability remediation and leastprivilege access
• Enable data governance through cataloging lineage classification access auditing retention and lifecyclemanagement controls
• Build operational automation using Python Shell scripting AWS CLI SDKs and CICD pipelines
• Maintain platform standards runbooks architecture diagrams configuration records SOPs troubleshooting guides and audit evidence
• Partner with data engineers architects security teams application teams FinOps and business stakeholders on onboarding migrations upgrades and capacity planning
• Provide technical leadership mentor junior administrators coordinate vendor support and drive rootcause analysis and continuous improvement

qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related discipline

7 years of overall experience in cloud infrastructure data platform administration database administration or data engineering operations

At least 4 years of handson experience supporting AWS environments including production data and analytics workloads

Demonstrated experience operating highly available secure and scalable enterprise platforms

Strong troubleshooting rootcause analysis documentation communication and stakeholdermanagement skills

Ability to participate in oncall support and planned maintenance activities when required

skills:

AWS CDK,AWS EKS,AWS Glue,AWS Lambda,AWS EC2,Amazon EMR,Amazon Redshift,Amazon S3,AWS S3,VPC,AWS VPC,AWS Cloud,AWS,AWS environments,Apache Spark,AWS CLI,cloud infrastructure,Cloud Native,CloudFormation,CloudWatch,CICD pipelines,CICD,data analytics,data governance,Data Platform,modern data platforms,data integration,data lake,logging,data platforms,data pipelines,Secure data,data transfer,data warehouse,Strong SQL skills,AWS CodePipeline,disaster recovery,streaming architectures,GitHub Actions,GitLab,IAM,data engineering,Information Technology Engineering,Computer Science,Jenkins,key management,versioning,Azure DevOps,Azure Cloud,production data,AWS Config,Performance Monitoring,performance tuning,Python,Proficiency in Python,query tuning,query performance,relational databases,Shell scripting,vulnerability remediation,storage networking,Terraform AWS,Terraform,usage analysis,communication,proactively,AWS Cloud,access controls,administration,Architecture,audit evidence,auditing,automate,automation,budgets,continuous improvement,capacity planning,cataloging,Azure Cloud,Cloud Native,FinOps,encryption,data modeling,development test,governance,ITIL practices,incident management,Kinesis,tagging,mentor,operational excellence,planned maintenance,security,service control,cost efficiency,technical leadership,Testing,workflows

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.