AWS Cloud Data Warehouse Administrator

Western Digital•San Jose, CA

14h•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Data Administrator with strong expertise in Cloud Infrastructure, Data Lakehouse architecture, Data Governance, and Generative AI platforms. The ideal candidate will design, implement, and manage scalable AWS environments, build secure enterprise data platforms, and support GenAI solution integration. This role requires deep hands-on experience across cloud infrastructure, data engineering, governance, and AI integration.

Requirements

Strong experience with AWS services: EC2, EKS, EMR, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch
Expertise in Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation
AWS Lake Formation (data governance, fine-grained access control, data catalog)
Apache Iceberg (schema evolution, partitioning, ACID transactions)
Trino distributed query engine
Data lake design and ETL/ELT architecture
Amazon RDS (HA setup, backups, replication, performance tuning)
Amazon Redshift (WLM, query optimization, data modeling)
AWS Bedrock integration
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) implementation
Prompt engineering and AI security best practices
VPC architecture, private endpoints, security groups
IAM roles, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit

Nice To Haves

AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Data Analytics, AI Specialty)
Experience working in enterprise or regulated environments
Cloud cost optimization experience

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation (Infrastructure as Code).
Build and manage enterprise Data Lakehouse architectures using Amazon S3 (including S3 Tables) and Apache Iceberg.
Implement centralized data governance and fine-grained access control using AWS Lake Formation.
Enable secure cross-account data sharing and metadata management.
Deploy and optimize Trino for distributed SQL analytics.
Administer and optimize Amazon RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server) and Amazon Redshift clusters (WLM, query tuning, HA/DR).
Implement serverless automation using AWS Lambda and support CI/CD pipelines.
Design secure VPC architectures, networking configurations, and enforce IAM least-privilege access models.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using Amazon CloudWatch.
Support enterprise Generative AI solutions using AWS Bedrock, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.

Benefits

paid vacation time
paid sick leave
medical/dental/vision insurance
life, accident and disability insurance
tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
employee assistance program
other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
tuition reimbursement
transit
the Applause Program
employee stock purchase plan
the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan