Data Software Engineer (Hybrid Schedule) with Security Clearance

Top Skills' Details
- Elasticsearch/ Elastic/ELK
- Kafka
- ETL Development/ ETL Pipelines/ CI/CD Job Description
Clearance Level: Secret Clearance/ Interim Secret
Certification: Security+ within 2 weeks of starting Seeking a Data Software Engineer with Elastic and Kafka experience to support our Program as a Engineer in the End to End Visualization Tenet.
Candidate must be within driving distance of Fort Meade. At a minimum, a Secret clearance is required upon the start of employment and within 14 days following the start date the employee must obtain their Security + certification.
The ideal candidate brings knowledge in streaming data architectures, cloud-native technologies, and platform engineering, and thrives in guiding teams through technical delivery. This role involves design, development, and implementation of secure, scalable data solutions. The candidate will preferably have experience in Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) environments with a background in Systems Engineering, Solution Architecture, Network Engineering, or Software Development to apply their expertise to support complex data integration and interoperability efforts across the project within DoD network infrastructures.
As a key End to End Visualization team member, you will be conducting design and implementation for a variety of solution capabilities to integrating various data sources into Confluent (Kafka) and Elastic platforms, design of robust data integration solutions, and adhering to the program’s CI/CD processes and data governance practices. You will an integral member of a fast paced, Agile development and implementation team to architect, design and develop data integration solutions (Extract, Transform, Load) to support a unified User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI) that provides a holistic single-pane-of-glass interface for an integrated solution on the Elastic platform. Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a relevant technical discipline and 2+ year of related experience obtained through any combination of coursework and internships.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Confluent Kafka, including schema management, stream processing, and Kafka Connect.
• Experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for logging, monitoring, and observability.
• Prior experience with implementing enterprise data lakes, ETL pipelines, and distributed data architectures.
• Proficient in AWS services relevant to data platforms (e.g., EC2, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Experience deploying and managing workloads in OpenShift or Kubernetes-based environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration best practices.
• Effectively managing remotely with a geographically dispersed team.
• Working knowledge of DISA STIGs, RMF, and other DoD compliance frameworks.
• Strong background in data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• Develop DoD requirements, traceability, and detailed plans/schedules.
• Development of software systems engineering documents and interface documents (IDDs/ICDs)
• Strong understanding of DoD network infrastructure, security requirements, and data exchange protocols.
• Experience in application integration design and strong communication skills for collaboration with virtual teams.
• Proficiency in data integration technologies, APIs, message brokers, and middleware solutions.
• Experience with network security, encryption, and access controls in classified and unclassified environments.
• Prior experience in big data analytics or cybersecurity solutions within a DISN environment
• Background in observability platforms, incident response, or real-time analytics.
• Software development experience with Python, Java and SQL. Working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript.
• Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.
• Ability to obtain interim Secret DoD Security clearance prior to start date.
• Ability to obtain Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 60 days of start date.
• Experience in architecture, design, develop, and delivery of data driven operations capabilities, within a DoD environment.
• Experience using project management tools such as Jira and Confluence to document requirements, acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with and convey focused messages to stakeholders, customers, domain experts, program managers and teammates. Primary Responsibilities:
• Solution implementation using Confluent Kafka, Elastic Stack, AWS, and Red Hat OpenShift (Kubernetes).
• Create Kafka, Elastic, Logstash data pipelines and support Kibana visualizations and dashboards using React, JavaScript and HTML.
• Partner with product owners, architects, and cross-functional leaders to ensure delivery aligns with strategic goals.
• Development and maintenance of middleware, APIs, and data pipelines to enable interoperability across disparate systems.
• Apply expertise in network security, transport protocols, and DISN architectures to ensure compliance with DoD cybersecurity and data governance policies.
• Leverage AI/ML techniques to optimize data processing, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and automation in data integration workflows.
• Enforce strong data governance practices, ensuring data accuracy, security, and compliance with DoD and industry regulations.
• Troubleshoot and optimize data flows, network configurations, and system performance issues.
• Research, design, develop and user-test experience and make strategic user-experience decisions while working closely with product owners, engineers and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
• Design, develop, document, test and deploy applications and prototypes in JavaScript, HTML and CSS on the Elastic platform.
• Integrating ETL components with CI/CD build/deployment pipelines that use Cloudbees/Jenkins, Artifactory, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker and Bitbucket.
• Designing, development, documenting, testing and deploying applications. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.  If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)