Estrada Consulting Incorporated
Cloud AI Engineer (Ref #: 1123044)
Remote•United States•Contract
$70 - $80 hourly
$70 - $80 hourly
About the Job
Company: Estrada Consulting, Inc. (ECI)
Client: State Government – Criminal Justice Data Platform
Position Type: Full-Time Contract
Work Location: Milford, Massachusetts (50 Maple Street, Milford, MA)
Work Arrangement: Remote / 100% Remote Permitted
Travel: Occasional travel to Milford, Boston, or Middleborough, Massachusetts, may be required or preferred depending on client needs.
Location Preference: Candidates residing in Massachusetts or willing to travel occasionally to Massachusetts are preferred.
Client: State Government – Criminal Justice Data Platform
Position Type: Full-Time Contract
Work Location: Milford, Massachusetts (50 Maple Street, Milford, MA)
Work Arrangement: Remote / 100% Remote Permitted
Travel: Occasional travel to Milford, Boston, or Middleborough, Massachusetts, may be required or preferred depending on client needs.
Location Preference: Candidates residing in Massachusetts or willing to travel occasionally to Massachusetts are preferred.
Important Location, Travel & Background Check Requirements:
- 100% remote candidates are eligible to apply.
- Preference will be given to candidates based in Massachusetts or available for occasional onsite meetings in Milford, Boston, or Middleborough.
- Candidates must be willing and able to travel to Chelsea, Massachusetts, for mandatory DCJIS fingerprinting.
- Candidates must be able to pass an FBI background check.
- A Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) review will be conducted after candidate selection.
- Candidates should confirm their availability for any required travel and security screening.
Position Overview:
Estrada Consulting, Inc. is seeking an experienced Cloud AI Engineer to support a statewide criminal justice data platform integrating information from police departments, courts, and correctional institutions.
The platform supports improved criminal justice outcomes, reduced recidivism, enhanced data sharing, and transparent public reporting.
The selected engineer will design, develop, deploy, secure, and maintain enterprise cloud and AI solutions using AWS, Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), Snowflake, and modern data engineering technologies.
The engineer will collaborate with data management, infrastructure, security, and application development teams to deliver scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performing solutions.
Mandatory Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing AWS cloud solutions.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and implementing RAG solutions using vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native AI/ML and Generative AI / LLM-powered applications.
- Hands-on experience implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients.
- Strong AWS expertise, including EKS, VPC, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, and EC2.
- Proven experience with AWS cloud migration and modernization projects.
- Advanced Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Git version control.
- Hands-on experience administering Snowflake, including Virtual Warehouses, RBAC, and performance management.
- Strong programming experience with Python and advanced SQL.
- Experience in database architecture, data warehousing, and ETL/ELT pipeline development.
- Experience with enterprise BI technologies, including Power BI and Tableau administration.
- Understanding of cloud security, identity management, network security, and AI governance.
- Strong communication, troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to pass the required FBI background check, DCJIS fingerprinting, and CORI review.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, or a related field.
- AWS certification.
- Experience supporting state government or criminal justice data systems.
- Experience designing secure enterprise AI agent architectures.
- Experience with public-sector cloud platforms and sensitive data environments.
- Candidates located in Massachusetts or available for occasional travel to Milford, Boston, or Middleborough.