Custom Software Systems, Inc.

Cloud Data Platform Administrator

Custom Software Systems, Inc.

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Washington • District of Columbia • Washington • United States

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Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudSDLCServiceNowTerraform

About the role

  • Implement platform monitoring/alerting, operational dashboards, and health checks; maintain runbooks and operational procedures.
  • Provision and administer AWS GovCloud 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 the 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., CloudTrail/CloudWatch 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 cloud/network teams: private connectivity patterns, egress controls, firewall/proxy needs.
  • Implement cost guardrails: cluster policies, auto-termination, scheduling, workload sizing standards, and capacity planning.
  • Produce usage/cost insights and optimization recommendations; address waste drivers (idle compute, oversized clusters, inefficient jobs).
  • Automate administration and configuration using APIs/CLI/IaC (e.g., Terraform) to reduce manual drift and improve repeatability.
  • Maintain platform documentation: configuration baselines, security/governance standards, onboarding guides, and troubleshooting references.
  • Manage third-party integrations and ecosystem connectivity, including BI tool integrations (e.g., Power BI), and external metadata catalog integrations.
  • Conduct capacity planning and scalability analysis, including forecasting concurrent user/workload growth, platform scaling strategies, and proactive resource allocation during peak usage periods.
  • Facilitate user onboarding and enablement, including new user/team onboarding procedures, training coordination, workspace access provisioning, and creation of self-service documentation/guides.

Requirements

  • Three (3) years' experience building AWS Infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Three (3) years' experience building CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps or Gitlab CI/CD practices for promotion across SDLC environments.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of experience with integration, systems analysis, or programming experience within Cloud environments.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of experience developing systems requirements and design specifications.
  • At least seven (7) years’ demonstrated experience in: Developing software according to software development lifecycles (SDLCs), including DevOps, Agile, Lean, Iterative, or Waterfall.
  • Designing, deploying, and migrating secure and maintainable systems for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments.
  • DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and related best practices for cloud deployment.
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or ServiceNow.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS security and networking services, including PrivateLink, Secrets Manager/Systems Manager integration, CloudWatch/CloudTrail integration, S3 bucket policies, cross-account access patterns, and KMS encryption key management.
Benefits
  • Health insurance plans
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Long-term disability
  • Short-term disability
  • Basic term life insurance
  • Supplemental term life insurance for employees, spouses, and dependents
  • Simple IRA
  • Parking/Commuting expense reimbursement
  • Training/Education
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformCI/CDDevOpsAgileLeanIaaSPaaSSaaScloud security
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingtraining coordinationdocumentationcapacity planninguser onboardingincident supportchange managementoptimization