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Reston, VA
Top Secret/SCI CI Polygraph
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Job Description
Data Engineer - Mid Level
Clearance: Active TS/SCI with CI Poly (Required)
Location: Reston, VA (Onsite)
Responsibilities:
• 4-10 years of experience in Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, and
DevOps.
• Designs, implements, and maintains large-scale ETL pipelines and ingestion
architecture for collecting, retrieving, normalizing, validating, and processing
intelligence data.
• Builds and maintains distributed, event-driven architecture using cloud-native
services such as AWS Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, RDS/PostgreSQL, and
serverless computing platforms.
• Develops backend services, APIs, and worker-based system for parsing,
transforming, enriching, and publishing structured data.
• Drafts database schemas and indexes, and manages data integrity and
performance of PostgreSQL database environment.
• Creates automated validation, deduplication, and quality assurance
processes to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of ingested data.
• Implements monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms to detect pipeline
failure and processing issues in a distributed environment.
• Participates in collaboration with engineers, analytics, and mission
stakeholders to determine data processing requirements
• Investigates, analyzes, and implements new and innovative technologies to
enhance the scalability and automation of cloud-native data platforms.
• Implements best practices of software development and cloud infrastructure
in accordance with mission and security (RMF) guidelines.
• Supports CI/CD (GitLab CI/CD, or similar) pipelines, automation of
infrastructure (Terraform, Terragrunt), and deployment processes for cloud-
native application and serverless services.
• Documents and creates technical architecture and operational procedures.
Degrees and Desired Certifications:
• Bachelor of Science or Administration in related field
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and/or AWS Certified Developer Associate
• CompTIA Security+
Clearance: Active TS/SCI with CI Poly (Required)
Location: Reston, VA (Onsite)
Responsibilities:
• 4-10 years of experience in Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, and
DevOps.
• Designs, implements, and maintains large-scale ETL pipelines and ingestion
architecture for collecting, retrieving, normalizing, validating, and processing
intelligence data.
• Builds and maintains distributed, event-driven architecture using cloud-native
services such as AWS Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, RDS/PostgreSQL, and
serverless computing platforms.
• Develops backend services, APIs, and worker-based system for parsing,
transforming, enriching, and publishing structured data.
• Drafts database schemas and indexes, and manages data integrity and
performance of PostgreSQL database environment.
• Creates automated validation, deduplication, and quality assurance
processes to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of ingested data.
• Implements monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms to detect pipeline
failure and processing issues in a distributed environment.
• Participates in collaboration with engineers, analytics, and mission
stakeholders to determine data processing requirements
• Investigates, analyzes, and implements new and innovative technologies to
enhance the scalability and automation of cloud-native data platforms.
• Implements best practices of software development and cloud infrastructure
in accordance with mission and security (RMF) guidelines.
• Supports CI/CD (GitLab CI/CD, or similar) pipelines, automation of
infrastructure (Terraform, Terragrunt), and deployment processes for cloud-
native application and serverless services.
• Documents and creates technical architecture and operational procedures.
Degrees and Desired Certifications:
• Bachelor of Science or Administration in related field
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and/or AWS Certified Developer Associate
• CompTIA Security+
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