Cloud Data Platform Administrator, fully Remote, direct client

Position: Cloud Data Platform Administrator, fully Remote, with our direct client
Indotronix is seeking a Cloud Data Platform Administrator, fully Remote, with our direct client

Position:
Cloud Data Platform Administrator

Location:

Fully Remote candidates will be considered. Hybrid candidates who can come in person up to twice a month at client locations in Washington, DC will given preference.

Duration: 9 monthsUSC and GCProject

Description:

The Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) empowers the Board to confidently use trusted, standardized, and well governed data to drive insight and innovation.

Background:

Cloud Data Platform Administrator is the hands-on technical resource responsible for implementing, securing, and operating EDP. This role is accountable for platform operations, security, and governance configuration end-to-end-ensuring the environment is compliant, reliable, cost-controlled, and enables secure analytics and AI/ML workloads at scale

The candidate shall also demonstrate the below knowledge and experience:

• Identity & Access Management proficiency: SSO concepts, SCIM provisioning, group based RBAC, service principals, least-privilege patterns.
• Security fundamentals: secrets management, secure connectivity, audit logging, access monitoring, and evidence-ready operations.
• Automation skills:
  IaC using Terraform, CLI, and REST APIs for repeatable configuration and environment promotion.
• 3 years' experience building AWS Infrastructure using Terraform.
• 3 years' experience building CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure Dev Ops or Gitlab.
• CI/CD practices for promotion across SDLC environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving; communicate clearly during incidents and changes.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Cloud platform expertise (AWS ): IAM roles/policies, object storage security patterns, networking basics (VPC concepts), logging/monitoring integration.
• Hands-on experience with AWS security and networking services including Private Link, Secrets Manager/Systems Manager integration, Cloud Watch/Cloud Trail integration, S3 bucket policies, cross-account access patterns, and KMS encryption key management.

Highly valued(Desirable, but not required) knowledge, skills and experience

• SQL proficiency and data engineering fundamentals for troubleshooting query performance issues, understanding ETL/ELT workflow patterns, and debugging data pipeline failures; basic Python/Scala familiarity for notebook/code issue diagnosis.
• Experience with compliance and regulatory frameworks (FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC2, or similar) including implementation of data residency requirements, retention policies, and audit-ready evidence collection.
• SLA/SLO management, incident management, and stakeholder communication skills; ability to define platform service levels, produce operational reports, translate technical issues to business stakeholders, and manage vendor relationships (Databricks account teams).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional

The Contractor shall deliver, but not limited to, the following:

• Implement platform monitoring/alerting, operational dashboards, and health checks; maintain runbooks and operational procedures.
• Provision and administer AWS Gov Cloud infrastructure components supporting EDP environments (networking, compute, storage, IAM, logging/monitoring).
• Implement and maintain standardized "secure-by-default" configurations aligned to agency security requirements (baseline hardening, patching coordination, configuration management).
• Operate cloud services supporting data and analytics platforms (e.g., storage integrations, encryption/KMS patterns, secure service endpoints, VPC constructs).
• Establish and maintain operational monitoring/alerting, health checks, runbooks, and incident support in coordination with platform and security teams.
• Manage change control for upgrades, feature rollouts, configuration changes, and integration changes; document impacts and rollback plans.
• Enable and maintain audit logging and access/event visibility; support security reviews and evidence requests.
• Configure logging and auditability (e.g., Cloud Trail/Cloud Watch patterns) and support evidence collection for security/compliance activities.
• Coordinate secure networking patterns (private connectivity, egress controls, firewall/proxy constraints) with network and security stakeholders.
• Build and manage POC environments (isolated accounts/VPCs where applicable), ensuring repeatability, cost controls, and safe teardown.
• Coordinate secure connectivity and guardrails with…