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

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