Cloud Engineer - AWS Data Platforms

DNI is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support JWAC under the Air Force JITS Contract. This role focuses on designing, deploying, and improving AWS cloud environments that enable data pipelines, analytics, and AI/ML services. The ideal candidate is an AWS-focused engineer who can automate and code—not just administer infrastructure—and is interested in building the data services that run on the platform.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS cloud-native environments for data ingestion, processing, storage, search, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
• Use AWS managed, serverless, and platform services to build cost-aware, scalable solutions; contribute to services such as AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon RDS as appropriate.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and recovery; use infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices where applicable.
• Support containerized or Kubernetes-based workloads alongside AWS-native services, selecting practical deployment patterns for each use case.
• Partner with developers to deploy and operate data pipelines, APIs, integrations, and workflow automation; troubleshoot the cloud platform and application boundary.
• Apply identity and access controls, encryption, network protections, logging, monitoring, and security checks in cloud delivery and operations.
• Monitor availability, perform