Senior Data Engineer - DevOps

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer(Dev Ops) to join our team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on modernization and technology transformation projects that will positively impact the critical missions of our government clients and solve challenges that aim to improve millions of lives across the globe.

Support the operations, maintenance, and reliability of customer systems, including production monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

Maintain and enhance cloud-based infrastructure supporting Data.gov applications, APIs, data catalog services, search capabilities, databases, and data harvesting workflows.

Support AWS and Linux-based environments, including system configuration, application servers, web services, scheduled jobs, access controls, and environment stability.

Develop, maintain, and improve automation for deployments, infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and repeatable operational tasks.

Support CI/CD pipelines and release processes using tools such as Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Docker, or similar technologies.

Work closely with application developers to support CKAN, Data.gov catalog services, Data Harvester components, APIs, search services, and related open data platform capabilities.

Monitor system performance, availability, logs, capacity, and security events using tools such such as Cloud Watch, Splunk, New Relic, or similar monitoring platforms.

Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, database, network, security, and integration issues across development, test, staging, and production environments.

Support database and search platform operations, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Solr, Elasticsearch, Open Search, or similar technologies.

Support security and compliance activities, including vulnerability remediation, access control reviews, configuration hardening, ATO documentation, and implementation of federal security requirements.

Create and maintain technical documentation, including runbooks, standard operating procedures, system diagrams, deployment guides, and troubleshooting procedures.

Collaborate with developers, architects, security engineers, product owners, Scrum Masters, and government stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment.

Support platform modernization efforts, including cloud optimization, Dev Sec Ops  improvements, reliability engineering, performance tuning, and technical debt reduction.

Assist with enhancements to APIs, Python scripts, data pipelines, Data Harvester functionality, CKAN components, and search improvements.

Support production release planning, including deployment readiness, smoke testing, rollback planning, and post-deployment validation.

Provide recommendations to improve system scalability, observability, maintainability, security, and operational efficiency.

Evaluate new tools, technologies, and practices that improve automation, monitoring, cloud operations, security, and overall platform reliability.

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or similar required work

US citizenship required in order to obtain a US government Public Trust clearance