Jobs → Data & Analytics → AWS Data Platform Engineer

About the Role We are seeking an AWS Data Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate enterprise AWS data platform infrastructure that supports analytics and data-sharing initiatives. This role involves developing business, data, systems, and infrastructure models to create enterprise architectures. Key Responsibilities • Develop plans for migrating architectures • Create technical reference models including hardware/software standards • Engineer integrated hardware and software solutions to meet mission requirements • Design and enforce data access control, row/column-level security • Build and maintain DataOps pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK), and CI/CD workflows • Manage platform observability with monitoring, alerting, and cost-governance dashboards • Collaborate with security/compliance teams to maintain FedRAMP compliance and NIST controls • Provide Tier 2/3 platform support; triage and resolve issues Requirements • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field • 8+ years of experience in data platform, cloud infrastructure, or DataOps engineering • Experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation • Experience managing multi-account AWS environments with governance guardrails • Solid understanding of data security: encryption at rest/in transit, IAM least-privilege, VPC networking • Experience with CI/CD pipelines applied to data platform releases • Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST 800-53 controls in AWS context • Experience with AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and Service Control Policies • Familiarity with platform engineering concepts: data mesh, data products, and self-service analytics