Cloud Engineer (675456)
About the Opportunity
- We are only considering US Citizens and Green Card holders for this position. We are unable to sponsor for this role.
- We are only considering local candidates who currently reside within 45 minutes of postal code 08625
- No Third Party Agencies
- $91 per hour 1099, $72 per hour W2 + benefits
- 2 days Work From Home, 3 days On-site in Trenton, New Jersey per week
- Job Id: CAI-675456
- Must be able to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination plus booster shot
- Contract Term: Till end of the 2023 fiscal year with yearly extension based upon performance
Short Description
The State of New Jersey’s Department of Health (NJDOH) is seeking a Cloud Engineer to lead in data pipelines and data infrastructure, build or assist in building data infrastructure, and assist in any data engineering tasks. The ideal candidate must have 5+ years of experience writing and debugging Python and building data pipelines and 3+ years of experience with data lakes in an AWS environment.
Required Skills/Years of Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience writing and debugging Python
- 5+ years of experience building data pipelines
- 3+ years of experience with data lakes in an AWS environment
- 3+ years of experience with data warehouse technologies in an AWS environment
- 2+ years of experience with AWS EMR
Desired Skills/Years of Experience:
- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field
- 5+ years of experience in a data engineer role
- 3+ years of experience with Jupyter Notebooks
- 2+ years of experience with PySpark
- 1+ years of experience with big data tools (Spark, Kafka, etc.)
- 1+ years of experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres
- 1+ years of experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools (AWS Glue, Airflow, etc.)
- 1+ years of experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift)
- 1+ years of experience with stream-processing systems (Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.)
- 1+ years of experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages (Python, Java, etc.)
Complete Description
The State of New Jersey’s Department of Health (NJDOH) is seeking a Cloud Engineer to lead in data pipelines and data infrastructure, build or assist in building data infrastructure, and assist in any data engineering tasks. The ideal candidate must have 5+ years of experience writing and debugging Python and building data pipelines and 3+ years of experience with data lakes in an AWS environment.
The Cloud Engineer will be tasked to:
- Lead in data pipelines and data infrastructure, build or assist in building data infrastructure, and assist in any data engineering tasks
- Assist in maintaining and monitoring infrastructure
- Work with a variety of relational databases and perform query authoring (SQL)
- Build and optimize big data data pipelines, architectures, and data sets
- Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
- Work with unstructured datasets
- Work with build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management
- Manipulate, process, and extract value from large disconnected datasets
- Work with message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable big data data stores
- Demonstrate strong project management and organizational skills
- Support and work with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
Hiring Expectations
- We are only considering US Citizens and Green Card holders for this position. We are unable to sponsor for this role.
- No Third Parties
- Right to Represent authorization is required
- Expect technical interview screening
- Expect F2F interview
- Background check and/or credit check will be required