Cloud Data Engineer

Steampunk is looking for a Cloud Data Engineer to join our team to support a federal customer in their efforts to enhance common infrastructure capabilities to help create and execute a diverse cloud migration plan. The ideal candidate must be able to design, develop, test, and/or demonstrate working solutions that meet customer objectives for enhancing infrastructure capabilities within the cloud and deliver documentation to effectively plan and implement those solutions.

As a Cloud Data Engineer, you will:

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  Identify and leverage best practices implementing the major cloud providers (GCP, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), etc). Mentor small engineering and development team on best practices and service utilization.
• Utilize cloud tools (such as AWS CLI, CloudFormation, AWS-Roles) to standardize, secure, and automate infrastructure deployment and management activities.
• Engineer and integrate varying systems in a hybrid cloud environment, to include installation, operations, maintenance, documentation, and disaster recovery of integrated systems.
• Deploy a multi-layer integrated system leveraging automation and containerization.
• Customize Splunk and QRadar to fully integrate and leverage log aggregation, ingestion, and reporting capabilities.
• Demonstrate and exercise operational rigor, documentation of steps, backup of artifacts, validation through unit testing and comparison, and restoration of changes.
• Participate in Agile team structure to develop and deploy: architectural components and services, application code, patches and configuration changes, and integration capabilities.
• Improve security posture by configuring and deploying access controls, monitoring and logging, baseline images (such as Amazon Machine Images (AMI)), networking, deployment and compliance automation for both Linux and Windows workloads in the cloud.
• Provide strategic and engineering guidance to customer, program team, and project managers regarding technology evaluation, planning, and implementation.
• Develop technology road-maps, providing technical advice and develop solutions to address customer requirements.
• Conduct Engineering sessions, develop and refine activity sequences and level of effort estimates for project managers as requested to develop project schedules.

• The ideal candidate will have exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills and possess 15+ years of experience performing systems engineering and administration, with heavy emphasis on cloud
• Strong judgment, negotiation skills, organizational, and analytical skills
• Experience working in a complex engineering environment
• Ability to establish trust with a variety of stakeholders and customers
• Self-managed and self-starter, ability to work independently
• A BS or BA Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
• Experience with cloud service implementations using industry best practices
• Experience in implementing cloud automation with application deployment
• Experience in hybrid cloud architecture, integration, and deployment
• Experience integrating varying infrastructure and business application systems in a hybrid cloud environment; to include installation, operations, maintenance, documentation, and disaster recovery
• Experience with data pipeline and orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow and Apache NiFi
• Experience with cloud data services such as AWS Glue, AWS Data Pipeline, AWS Redshift, AWS Athena, AWS RDS, AWS EMR, and AWS SageMaker
• Experience deploying multi-layer integrated systems, leveraging automation and containerization
• Experience integrating with on premise logging tools such as Splunk and QRadar
• Experience integrating with on premise security tools to integrate with and leverage common controls provided by general support systems
• Experience replacing or augmenting on premise security tools with cloud provided web services and capabilities to provide security controls
• Experience developing Architecture and Design documentation, implementation and test plans, SOPs, etc.
• Experience working in an Agile environment – supporting all aspects of the SDLC and processes
• US Citizenship
• Cloud certification (e.g. Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator, Cloud Practitioner) is preferred