Senior Data Engineer with Security Clearance

Chantilly, VA - Salary Range 200k-290k (Top Security Clearance Required) Job Brief As a skilled data engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of data pipelines supporting a mission critical NextGen space resiliency / flight safety program. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, including analysts, software developers, cloud computing engineers, and systems engineers, to ensure efficient data processing, secure storage, and insightful analysis. This position requires hands-on experience and expertise with Kafka, AWS, and MongoDB Responsibilities Upgrade and/or maintain Kafka clusters in an AWS/Kubernetes cloud environment

Design, Develop, and Deploy Kafka clusters in an AWS/Kubernetes cloud environment

Manage schema evolution and security using Kafka Schema Registry and Kafka Security Manager (KSM)

Oversee the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms Requirements Kafka experience: Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and other Kafka ecosystem tools

Kafka knowledge of/with: Kafka Schema Security Manager, Kafka Schema Registry, and Kafka architecture and internals

Experience with Apache NiFI

Experience with AWS

Experience with MongoDB, Redis

Experience with agile development methodologies

Data Pipeline Experience: You will be involved with acquiring and prepping data to make data easily searchable and retrievable

Scripting Experience: develop scripts and programs for data conversion (transform various forms of data into usable formats)

Data Processing: create software to retrieve, parse, and process structured and unstructured data

Data Storage: implement data policies

TS/SCI clearance with a CI Polygraph

Ability to work on site in Chantilly, VA, Herndon, VA, or in Englewood, CO

Must be able to meet one of the education/experience combinations listed at the end

Background in any of the following: Orbital Dynamics, Astrodynamics, Aerospace Engineering, Flight Safety, Space Domain Awareness, Satellite Conjunction Analysis, SIGINT, IMINT, or GEOINT

Experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform)

Experience with Big Data technologies (Spark, Cassandra, Hadoop)

Experience with Java, Python, or Scala

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, BitBucket, GIT