Data Operations Engineer
Core
Support reliability, availability, and timely delivery of mission-critical data by coordinating technical operations, guiding dataflow owners, and evolving high-volume data pipelines.
Role type
Senior Data Operations Engineer (Customer-facing)
Builds
Reliable, automated, and proactively monitored data services for government customers
Domain
National Security / Defense / Data Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed messaging systems, data orchestration engines, cloud-native storage, observability tools, SQL, Python/Java scripting, ETL workflows, schema validation, performance tuning, customer requirements translation
Preferred skills
TS/SCI clearance, customer-facing engineering, scalable distributed processing architectures, cyber/network-security operations, automated access control
Technologies
Python, Java, SQL, JSON, XML, distributed messaging, orchestration engines, cloud storage
Responsibilities
Serve as technical point of contact for customer stakeholders; oversee dataflow deployment and maintenance; monitor pipeline health and system uptime; tune cluster and pipeline performance; implement automated quality gates and validation workflows; improve ETL workflows and metadata consistency; share proven workflows across teams.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with customer-facing responsibilities
