United States of America Hybrid

Defense Unicorns is hiring a Data Engineer (FedD024)

Responsibilities

  • Create efficient data workflows and pipelines to enable ETL/ELT processes, ensuring high data quality and secure transfer between AWS cloud and on-premises systems.
  • Apply systems engineering methodologies to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable data infrastructure, including robust backup and recovery solutions.
  • Design, deploy, and manage data streaming platforms such as Kafka, Redpanda, and Kinesis on Kubernetes, using declarative configurations to simplify ongoing operations.
  • Collaborate with platform teams to enforce strong configuration management, security controls, and performance tuning in Kubernetes and AWS environments.
  • Partner with platform engineers to automate infrastructure setup, monitoring, and scaling using tools like Terraform, and work alongside cybersecurity experts to integrate threat defense measures.
  • Ensure all data systems adhere to industry standards and Department of Defense regulations for security and compliance.
  • Monitor advancements in containerization, Kubernetes, and data engineering to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Other

  • Travel is required 6 to 10 times annually.
  • The listed duties are not comprehensive and may expand based on organizational needs.
  • We seek a flexible candidate who can respond to evolving priorities and take on new challenges as they emerge.
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Defense Unicorns
Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery, consolidating best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation.
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Posted 21 hours ago