Senior Cloud Engineer

Distributed Big Data Enthusiast

This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

As a distributed big data enthusiast, you'll architect and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments. You'll automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, optimize high-throughput systems for scale and performance, and strengthen reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management. As a trusted technical partner, you'll also guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors and 8+ years hands on experience (deploy, monitor, scale, and upgrades) with a distributed database technology such as CassandraDB, Opensearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Redis.
• 5+ Years managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
• 5+ Years experience with infrastructure automation and DevOps practices such as CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes), Python
• 5+ years experience supporting live production systems for customer facing software as a service
• 3+ years of experience leading technical projects, including responsibility for task estimation, milestone tracking, and stakeholder communication processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to modern data platforms including data pipelines, streaming systems, AL/ML and GenAI workloads
• Experience writing data driven applications in Java or Python and familiarity with data access patterns in software
• Experience in regulated US Federal environments