SME AWS Architect; Data Lake​/Aurora TS​/SCI-CI Poly

Job Posting

Gaithersburg, MD Top Secret/SCI CI Polygraph Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience) Salary not specified

Candidates must already possess an active Top Secret/SCI w/ CI Polygraph to be considered. Architect scalable solutions for a rapidly growing, petabyte-scale data lake. We are seeking an AWS Solutions Architect with deep expertise in Aurora PostgreSQL to drive complex schema normalization, manage high-volume data onboarding, and transition container workloads from EKS to ECS/Fargate.

Summary:

• Provide AWS solutions architecture and Aurora PostgreSQL database management for petabyte-scale data systems.
• Facilitate schema normalization and orchestrate containerized workloads across AWS EKS and ECS/Fargate.
• Support security controls for ATO compliance and mentor engineering teams on CI/CD deployment pipelines.

Qualifications & Compensation:

• Degree:
  Technical bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Years of experience: 3+ years of Data Lake / Aurora
• Total Compensation: $391k+ yearly

Job Description:

• Manage Aurora PostgreSQL scaling and data normalization across multiple onboarding schemas within a petabyte-scale data lake.
• Assist with security controls management to support ATO milestones for sensitive data environments.
• Coach junior team members on modern CI/CD practices and multi-environment delivery pipelines.
• Expand containerization capabilities from Kubernetes (EKS) into Amazon ECS and Fargate.
• Interface with AWS engineering and technical account management to troubleshoot and optimize cloud architecture.

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