Smart IT Frame LLC

Sr. Big Data Engineer – AWS

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This role is for a Sr. Big Data Engineer – AWS, a contract position in St. Louis, MO, offering competitive pay. Key requirements include 10+ years in Infrastructure/System Administration, 5+ years in Big Data & Cloud, and strong AWS, Hadoop, and Kafka expertise.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
June 16, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
On-site
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
St. Louis City County, MO
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #Security #Disaster Recovery #Automation #Python #DevOps #Prometheus #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #Big Data #Scala #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator) #Terraform #Monitoring #Compliance #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #EC2 #Shell Scripting #Spark (Apache Spark) #Hadoop #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) #Grafana #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Data Engineering #Cloud #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #HBase #Scripting
Role description
🚀 We're Hiring: Sr. Big Data Engineer – AWS 🚀 📍 Location: St. Louis, MO (Onsite) 📄 Job Type: Contract About Smart IT Frame: At Smart IT Frame, we connect top talent with leading organizations across the USA. With over a decade of staffing excellence, we specialize in IT, healthcare, and professional roles, empowering both clients and candidates to grow together. Role Summary: We are looking for an experienced Sr. Big Data Engineer – AWS with strong expertise in AWS Cloud Administration, Hadoop Ecosystem, Kafka Administration, and Platform Engineering to support enterprise-scale data platforms. 🔹 Required Skills ✔️ 10+ years of Infrastructure/System Administration experience ✔️ 5+ years of Big Data & Cloud Platform Administration ✔️ Strong AWS Administration (EC2, S3, EMR, EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda) ✔️ Hadoop Administration (HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, Spark) ✔️ Kafka Administration & Performance Tuning ✔️ Terraform / CloudFormation (Infrastructure as Code) ✔️ CI/CD Pipeline Implementation ✔️ Python & Shell Scripting ✔️ Monitoring Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch) ✔️ Disaster Recovery, High Availability & Security Best Practices ✔️ Agentic AI exposure preferred 🔹 Key Responsibilities ✅ Manage and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure ✅ Administer large-scale Hadoop and Kafka clusters ✅ Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) ✅ Build automation and CI/CD solutions ✅ Monitor platform health, reliability, and performance ✅ Support disaster recovery, security, and compliance initiatives ✅ Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to improve platform scalability 📩 Interested candidates, apply today or share profiles at mario.i@smartitframe.com