AWS Cloud Data Platform Administrator

Job Title: AWS Cloud Data Platform Administrator

Location: Raritan, NJ (4 Days Onsite per Week)

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Data Platform Administrator to manage, secure, automate, and optimize enterprise-grade data platforms hosted on AWS. This role is responsible for platform availability, performance, governance, cost efficiency, and operational excellence across data engineering, analytics, and integration services. The ideal candidate will bring strong AWS administration expertise, hands-on experience with modern data platforms, and a proven ability to support business-critical workloads in production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support AWS-based data platforms across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Manage AWS services including:
• Amazon S3
• Redshift
• RDS/Aurora
• Glue
• EMR
• Athena
• Lake Formation
• Kinesis
• Lambda
• DMS
• Step Functions
• CloudWatch
• Provision and configure cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Implement identity and access controls using IAM roles, policies, permission boundaries, AWS Organizations, and Service Control Policies (SCPs).
• Monitor platform health, capacity, job execution, data pipelines, storage, and query performance; proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Perform incident, problem, change, release, and service request management in accordance with SLA and ITIL practices.
• Optimize Redshift clusters, Spark/EMR workloads, storage tiers, data transfer, and compute consumption for performance and cost efficiency.
• Implement backup, recovery, high availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery controls; conduct restoration and failover testing.
• Secure data using encryption, key management, private networking, secrets management, logging, vulnerability remediation, and least-privilege access principles.
• Enable data governance through cataloging, lineage, classification, access auditing, retention, and lifecycle management controls.
• Build operational automation using Python, Shell scripting, AWS CLI, SDKs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain platform standards, runbooks, architecture diagrams, configuration records, SOPs, troubleshooting guides, and audit documentation.
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects, security teams, application teams, FinOps teams, and business stakeholders on onboarding, migrations, upgrades, and capacity planning.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior administrators, coordinate vendor support, and drive root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on administration experience with AWS data, analytics, compute, storage, networking, security, and monitoring services.
• Deep understanding of data lake, data warehouse, lakehouse, batch processing, and streaming architectures.
• Experience administering Amazon Redshift, including:
• Workload management
• Query tuning
• Distribution and sort key strategies
• Scaling
• Snapshots
• Security
• Experience with AWS Glue Data Catalog, crawlers, jobs, workflows, and Lake Formation permissions.
• Working knowledge of Apache Spark and Amazon EMR administration, troubleshooting, scaling, and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of Amazon S3 design, bucket policies, lifecycle rules, versioning, replication, encryption, and access controls.
• Proficiency with:
• IAM
• KMS
• Secrets Manager
• VPC
• Security Groups
• Private Endpoints
• CloudTrail
• CloudWatch
• AWS Config
• GuardDuty
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation and CI/CD tools such as:
• AWS CodePipeline
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• Azure DevOps
• GitLab CI/CD
• Proficiency in Python and Shell scripting for administration, monitoring, deployment, and automation.
• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases, data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and data integration.
• Knowledge of observability, log analytics, backup, disaster recovery, patching, and production support practices.
• Understanding of cloud cost management practices, tagging standards, budgets, usage analysis, and rightsizing.

Mandatory Skills

• AWS EC2
• AWS EKS
• AWS Glue
• AWS S3
• AWS VPC

Preferred Skills

• AWS Cloud Architecture
• AWS Lambda
• Performance Monitoring (AWS CloudWatch, Azure Cloud Monitor)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of overall experience in cloud infrastructure, data platform administration, database administration, or data engineering operations.
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience supporting AWS environments, including production data and analytics workloads.
• Demonstrated experience operating highly available, secure, and scalable enterprise platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to participate in on-call support and planned maintenance activities when required.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified Data Engineer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.