ECT199 Data Engineer - Mid Level with Security Clearance

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+