Data Engineer

Job Description

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to‑earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

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Role
:
Data Engineer

Location
:
Remote

Duration
: 6-12 months (extension possible)

Rate
: $52.51/hour W2

The client has selected Globus as a strategic Managed File Transfer (MFT) platform to address critical gaps in secure, large-scale research data movement. The Globus platform is currently being installed in the GCP Cloud Data DMZ and is nearing completion of initial implementation. The Enterprise Interfaces team within the Enterprise Data organization has been designated as the operational home for Globus, alongside existing MFT solutions (Signiant and Cleo).

The contractor will embed within the Enterprise Interfaces team and serve as the primary technical resource for completing Globus operationalization, onboarding initial research customers, establishing operational support processes, and building the team's institutional knowledge of the Globus ecosystem. This engagement is designed to bridge an immediate capacity gap while the organization plans for long-term staffing through Phase 2 positions.

This engagement directly supports enterprise priorities including:

• Research Enablement – Enabling secure, compliant, high-throughput transfer of large research datasets (terabyte- to petabyte-scale) for Principal Investigator onboarding/offboarding, grant collaborations, and secure data downloads from approved external sites.
• MFT Consolidation – Integrating Globus into the existing MFT portfolio alongside Signiant and Cleo, with a long-term vision toward consolidated MFT operations with an AI-operations-centric approach.
• Security & Compliance – Ensuring alignment with internal ISA, BAA, TPRM, and NIST security framework requirements.

• Globus SaaS control plane with user authentication via Entra  (restricted to allowed identity providers)
• Two internally hosted Compute Engine VMs running Globus Connect Server (GCS) v5 in the GCP Data DMZ
• GCP ingress and egress S3 storage buckets with a defined 30-day data lifecycle/retention rule
• GridFTP parallel transfer protocol across HTTPS 443 and TCP ports 50000–51000 for high-performance data movement
• Globus Storage Gateways (Google S3 connectors) linking collections to GCP bucket storage
• Data movement performed by Globus-managed service accounts — no direct user access to underlying buckets
• User provisioning managed via Sailpoint
• Flat-fee licensing model for unlimited data transfer and unlimited endpoints (cloud and on‑premises)

The contractor will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Complete final configuration and…