Data Engineer

Leidos is seeking a Data Engineer to support United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) Cyber Operations Branch in the development and deployment of defensive cyberspace capabilities across Space mission and weapon systems. A successful candidate should have a diverse technical background and be leader and problem solver with a proven ability to deliver superior results as part of a high performing team in an Agile, fast-paced environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assembles large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional requirements

• Identifies, designs, and implements internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes

• Builds required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources

• Curate and maintain data that is stored in support of metrics and evaluation.

• Working with developers to make sure key data points are stored in a Postgres database.

• Working with data providers and back-end API developers to normalize schemas and define data flows for persistence and analytics.

• Design, build, test, maintain, and automate data collection/pipelines

• Develop Dashboards for Data Analytics.

• Implement Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

• Using Agile methodologies to develop software.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science or higher in Computer Science or related field.

• Minimum three (3) years of relevant experience as a Data Engineer/Scientist.

• Experience developing data pipelines and normalizing data.

• Experience using AWS cloud services.

• Experience with PostgreSQL database.

• Ability to work efficiently on small, distributed teams.

• Familiarity with Agile principles.

• US Citizen

• Must possess an active DoD Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• A Top Secret (TS) security clearance (with SCI and SAP eligibility) is HIGHLY desired.

• Experience developing Tableau Dashboards.

• ELK Stack Experience.

• Real-time event streaming.

• AWS S3, EC2, Lambda, Kinesis.

• Apache Spark, NiFi.

• Confluent Kafka.

• Experience with Containers (Docker, Docker Compose).

• DevSecOps utilizing test-driven development.

• Gitlab experience.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.