Data Engineer

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Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Engineer to join our team and support our client in the San Antonio, TX area. This role sits at the intersection of development and operations, focusing on creating CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud environments, and implementing Infrastructure as Code to ensure systems are scalable, secure, and resilient.

** What you'll be doing*
* + Building, automating, and optimizing the infrastructure and processes that enable rapid, reliable software delivery

+ Working closely with developers to integrate automation, improve deployment workflows, and monitor application performance to maintain high availability across environments

+ Fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and shared ownership across engineering teams

+ Proactively identifying bottlenecks, recommending architectural enhancements, and championing practices such as containerization, configuration-as-code, and automated testing

+ Aligning tooling, processes, and infrastructure with business needs to help teams deliver features faster, respond to issues quickly, and maintain a stable, secure operational posture

+ Designing and enhancing large-scale data pipelines leveraging Hadoop, HDFS, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, and Accumulo to support mission-critical data ingestion, processing, and analytics workflows

+ Optimizing distributed systems performance, improving data reliability, and maintaining resilient ingest and analytic patterns across the Apache ecosystem

** What you'll need*
* + 3 years of experience in CI/CD pipeline development and automation

+ 3 years of experience with cloud infrastructure management and monitoring

+ 3 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management

+ 3 years of experience with containerization and automated testing

** Bonus Points if you have*
* +

Experience with troubleshooting and continuous process improvement

+ Knowledge of tuning JVM/GC, YARN, tablet servers, or NiFi performance-aligned with the types of stability and modernization work reflected in internal AFS/Recro big-data engagements

+ Experience supporting cyber operations or data engineering work in environments using Accumulo, NiFi, and Spark pipelines

+ Hands-on experience with distributed data platforms including Hadoop and HDFS

+ Practical experience designing, maintaining, or troubleshooting data ingestion flows using Apache Ni Fi

+ Experience building or optimizing Spark-based data processing jobs (PySpark, Scala, or Java)

+ Familiarity with Accumulo as a high-ingest, low-latency data store, including integration patterns, bulk loading, or iterator development

** Clearance*
* Must have an active Secret clearance; TS/SCI preferred

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of  
** California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New…