Cloud Platform Administrator

Innovative Information Technologies, Inc
Orlando, United States of America
5 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Orlando, United States of America

Tech stack

Airflow
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
Information Engineering
Data Infrastructure
Data Sharing
Dataspaces
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
Distributed Computing Environment
Github
Hadoop
Identity and Access Management
Query Optimization
Cloud Services
Cloudera
Data Streaming
Cloud Platform System
System Availability
Snowflake
Spark
Electronic Medical Records
Data Strategy
Gitlab
Cloudformation
Containerization
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Information Technology
Kafka
Data Management
Dataiku
Terraform
Data Pipelines
Docker
Jenkins

Job description

As a Senior Cloud Platform Administrator, you will bridge the gap between core infrastructure and data engineering. You will be responsible for building, optimizing, and maintaining the cloud environments where data pipelines and analytical workloads thrive. Your focus will be on the scalability, security, and cost-efficiency of our shared data platforms., * Architect, provision, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure cloud environments on AWS, optimized for data-intensive workloads.

  • Establish and maintain "guardrails" including IAM, security policies, naming conventions, and resource tagging.

  • Enforce operational practices by monitoring, auditing, and optimizing cloud compute (e.g., EC2, EMR, Snowflake) and storage (e.g., S3) to manage costs.

  • Build reusable deployment patterns and CI/CD automation to facilitate environment provisioning for the Data Engineering team.

  • Manage infrastructure lifecycle using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

  • Monitor platform health, manage alerts, and troubleshoot system-level bottlenecks to ensure high availability for batch and streaming data pipelines. Data Platform Maintenance

  • Administer, patch, and upgrade distributed data processing frameworks and engines (e.g., Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Hadoop).

  • Own the database administration lifecycle for cloud-native data stores, including backup/recovery, query optimization, and HA/DR (High Availability/Disaster Recovery).

  • Serve as the subject matter expert on cloud operations, mentoring junior engineers and assisting Data engineers with environment access and permissions.

  • Partner with Data Admin team, Data Strategy, and Compliance teams to ensure data platforms comply with regulatory and compliance standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

  • 5+ years of experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer, Data Platform Administrator, or DevOps Engineer, with a strong emphasis on data ecosystem support.

  • Hands-on administration experience with modern cloud platforms in particularly AWS.

  • Familiarity with modern data stack tools such as Snowflake, Cloudera, DataIKU etc.

  • Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Containerization stack such as Docker, and preferably experienced in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins).

  • Exceptional problem-solving abilities, strong communication skills for cross- functional collaboration, and a proven track record of creating developer-friendly platform.

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