We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Engineer Software Developer to join our team at Scott Air Force Base, supporting the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
The successful candidate will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and implementing solutions. As well as maintaining visualizations to support data analytics and reporting requirements. This position requires a deep understanding of data visualization principles, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Designs, builds, and maintains scalable, reliable data systems and pipelines to ingest, process, and transform large, complex, and disparate data sources for analytics and reporting.
- Unifies and integrates data from multiple network operations systems into a consistent, accessible platform, ensuring data quality, accuracy, security, and compliance with DoD and DISA requirements.
- Implement solutions using Confluent Kafka, Elastic Stack, AWS, and Red Hat OpenShift (Kubernetes), including creating Kafka, Elastic, and Logstash pipelines and supporting Kibana visualizations and dashboards with React, JavaScript, and HTML.
- Develops and manage data warehouses and data lakes to support analytics, reporting, and operational dashboards, optimizing infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness through automation and best practices.
- Continually analyze and optimize ingestion throughput, query performance, indexing strategies, and storage efficiency across Elastic and Kafka platforms.
- Automates data-related tasks such as ETL/ELT processes, data validation, cleansing, monitoring, and supports CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
- Collaborates with data analysts, visualization engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver integrated, actionable data solutions, and documents data architecture, integration patterns, and operational procedures.
- Troubleshoots and resolves issues related to data ingestion, processing, and platform performance, storage, memory, partitioning, and cluster performance.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or a related field.
- Active DoD Secret Clearance and current Security+ certification is required.
- Experience with DISA, DISN, or other DoD network environments, including developing and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards (e.g., STIGs), and knowledge of network security, encryption, and access controls in classified environments.
- Experience with big data technologies and platforms such as Kafka, Spark, NiFi, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Databricks, and ELK Stack for text mining, summarization, search, and entity extraction.
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud), cloud-integrated platforms, and infrastructure as code, including networking and security policies.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment, platform upgrades, patching, configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef), and monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic).
- Experience with BI tools like Kibana and developing and maintaining technical documentation and runbooks.
- Strong understanding and practical experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe), and related tools such as Atlassian JIRA and Confluence.
- Certified Confluent Developer and Certified Elastic Engineer.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working remotely with geographically dispersed teams and within a matrixed organization to combine software, integration, and data engineering practices.
- Apply knowledge of system architecture, networks, and centralized logging (ELK) to support data transformation initiatives.
Basic Qualifications:
- U.S. Citizenship Required
Red River offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits and an exceptional work environment. You can review our benefit offerings here. If you are ready to join a growing company, please submit your resume and cover letter (optional).
EOE M/F/DISABLED/Vet
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or a related field
- Active DoD Secret security clearance
- Current Security+ certification
- U.S. citizenship
- Experience with DISA, DISN, or other DoD network environments
- Experience developing and deploying applications meeting DoD security standards, including STIGs
- Knowledge of network security, encryption, and access controls in classified environments
- Experience with Kafka, Spark, NiFi, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Databricks, and ELK Stack
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms and infrastructure as code
- Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment, upgrades, patching, and configuration management tools
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, observability, and BI tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, and Kibana
- Experience developing and maintaining technical documentation and runbooks
- Practical experience with Agile methodologies, including Scrum or SAFe
- Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence
- Certified Confluent Developer certification
- Certified Elastic Engineer certification
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in remote, geographically dispersed, and matrixed teams
- Knowledge of system architecture, networks, and centralized logging
Red River Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Red River and has not been reviewed or approved by Red River.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options (including a PPO and an HSA-eligible HDHP) with concierge support and dental/vision coverage indicate a robust health offering, alongside company-paid basic life and short-term disability.
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Retirement Support — A Safe Harbor 401(k) with a 100% match on the first 4% and immediate eligibility/vesting strengthens long-term financial security.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible/unlimited PTO, nine paid holidays, and 16 hours of paid community service time provide meaningful time-off flexibility.
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