Role Description We are seeking an Infrastructure & Energy Workforce Subject Matter Expert to support workforce-planning and labor-market engagements involving energy, utilities, transportation, engineering, construction, and major infrastructure investments. This consultant will help government agencies, utilities, regional organizations, and industry partners understand workforce demand, occupational shortages, training capacity, skills requirements, and talent-pipeline needs. The ideal candidate combines industry knowledge with workforce-planning, labor-market, or human-capital strategy experience. - Lead or support workforce studies for energy, utility, transportation, engineering, construction, and infrastructure sectors. - Forecast workforce demand associated with capital projects, federal investments, system modernization, and industry growth. - Identify critical occupations, skill shortages, retirement risks, and hard-to-fill roles. - Analyze workforce supply, training capacity, credential pipelines, and regional labor availability. - Map occupations, competencies, certifications, apprenticeships, and career pathways. - Assess workforce needs across utilities, engineering and construction firms, contractors, suppliers, and public agencies. - Conduct interviews with industry executives, workforce leaders, labor organizations, contractors, training providers, and educational institutions. - Develop workforce-development strategies aligned with infrastructure and energy investments. - Recommend partnerships among government, employers, community colleges, apprenticeship programs, and workforce boards. - Support projects involving the Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, utilities, regional authorities, and infrastructure agencies. - Prepare reports, workforce forecasts, implementation roadmaps, presentations, and executive briefings. - Contribute subject-matter expertise to government proposals and technical approaches. Qualifications - Seven or more years of experience in energy, utilities, engineering, construction, transportation, infrastructure, or related workforce planning. - Strong understanding of infrastructure or energy-sector occupations and workforce challenges. - Experience conducting workforce planning, labor-market analysis, talent-pipeline development, or human-capital strategy. - Ability to assess occupational demand, skills requirements, training capacity, and regional labor availability. - Experience engaging industry employers and public-sector stakeholders. - Strong analytical, facilitation, report-writing, and presentation skills. - Ability to translate technical industry needs into workforce strategies and implementation recommendations.

• Build, operate and optimize cloud infrastructure • Responsible for core infrastructure components (compute, storage, content delivery, DNS, network security) • Design network architecture, scaling and high availability • Monitor operating costs and identify optimization opportunities • Actively participate in building, relocating and migrating our infrastructure

• Improve the high availability of our Dockerized microservices to ensure platform stability. • Launch and manage services in Kubernetes to scale our global operations. • Develop and operate infrastructure via Terraform, promoting automation and standardization practices like GitOps and immutability. • Deploy releases to production and staging environments while managing the full lifecycle of deployment processes. • Improve upon our CI/CD pipeline using tools like GitHub Actions to streamline delivery. • Build and maintain monitoring tools for logging, performance, uptime, and tracing to improve system observability. • Optimize database performance and manage backups, restorations, and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) procedures. • Collaborate with Engineering teams to provide tooling, development support, and post-incident recovery. • Contribute to the continuous improvement of IT security best practices and architecting new features. • Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure rapid incident resolution and stakeholder communication under pressure.

• Spark / YARN Job Optimization: Analyze job resource usage and identify inefficiencies (CPU idle, memory waste, timeouts, small file problems, etc.) • Build job profiling systems: job classification, resource baseline modeling, historical trend analysis • Produce optimization reports and drive business owners to implement improvements • AI-Driven Automation & Tooling: Use AI coding tools (Cursor / Copilot / Claude, etc.) fluently to accelerate development and tool delivery • Participate in EMR / S3 cost optimization projects: analyze high-cost jobs and storage, identify waste, and drive owners to take action • Develop automated ops scripts: scheduled health checks, anomaly alerting, data governance policy auto-deployment • Help build internal SaaS tooling to systematize and productize repetitive manual operations • Monitoring & Alerting: Maintain and improve existing monitoring systems (Prometheus metrics, alerts, log analysis) • Participate in Flink / Spark job health monitoring development • Assist with capacity alerting and governance for disk, S3, and other storage layers