IT Administrator providing infrastructure support for over 130 employees across five German locations. Ensures smooth IT operations and security for Projektron BCS.
About the role
- Cloud Data Platform Administrator supporting AWS GovCloud deployment, security, and operational tasks for enterprise data platform and analytics workloads.
Responsibilities
- Support the deployment, security, and operations of a modern Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) within a secure AWS GovCloud environment.
- Focus on AWS infrastructure administration, Terraform automation, CI/CD integration, and secure cloud platform operations supporting enterprise analytics and AI/ML workloads.
- Work closely with engineering, security, and platform teams to ensure the environment remains secure, scalable, compliant, and highly available.
- Provision and manage AWS GovCloud infrastructure components including networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring.
- Implement secure-by-default cloud configurations aligned with agency security requirements.
- Support cloud services used by analytics and data platforms including storage integrations, encryption patterns, and secure endpoints.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, operational dashboards, and platform health checks.
- Maintain operational runbooks and incident response procedures.
- Configure and manage logging and auditing capabilities using services such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
- Automate infrastructure management using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.
- Support CI/CD pipeline integration and automated deployments across environments.
- Monitor platform usage and identify opportunities to optimize cloud costs.
- Support capacity planning and ensure the platform can scale with increasing workloads and user demand.
- Support integrations with external tools such as BI platforms (e.g., Power BI) and metadata catalog systems.
- Build and manage isolated proof-of-concept environments for testing new capabilities.
- Assist with user onboarding, including workspace access provisioning and documentation.
- Maintain platform documentation, including configuration standards, troubleshooting guides, and operational procedures, to ensure consistency and accuracy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Business Administration, or a related technical field.
- Minimum 7 years of experience working with enterprise cloud platforms or DevOps environments.
- Minimum 5 years of experience supporting systems integration, systems analysis, or cloud platform development.
- Minimum 3 years of experience building AWS infrastructure using Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
- Minimum 3 years of experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps or GitLab CI/CD.
- Strong hands-on experience administering AWS environments, including IAM, VPC networking, object storage security, and monitoring tools.
- Experience with AWS services such as PrivateLink, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3 bucket policies, and KMS encryption key management.
- Understanding of cloud architecture components, including application servers, load balancers, caching layers, and distributed storage.
- Experience implementing identity and access management practices, including SSO, RBAC models, and least-privilege access.
- Familiarity with identity federation technologies such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect.
- Awareness of government cloud compliance requirements, such as FedRAMP or FISMA.
- Experience automating infrastructure and platform operations using Terraform, CLI scripting, or APIs.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Go.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, NAT, route tables, access control lists, and HTTP/IP networking.
- Familiarity with cloud architecture principles, including loosely coupled and stateless systems.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, security, and platform teams.
- Strong organizational and problem-solving abilities.
Benefits
- Hybrid – Washington, DC (up to twice per month onsite)
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