Data Engineer

The Data Engineer is responsible for working with DoD, IC, and Federal customers to develop, deploy and configure data centric Zero Trust solutions. These solutions should adhere to Zero Trust best-practices, reference frameworks, regulations, and guidelines. Position requires interfacing with customer stakeholders and engineering teams. This position is 100% remote.

Qualifications

• Zero Trust Fundamentals
  • Solid understanding of Zero Trust pillars, best practices, frameworks, and implementation strategies.
• Experience with data-centric security solutions, data engineering and policy models.
• Understanding of IC Data Encoding Specifications
  • Enterprise Data Header (EDH)
  • Trusted Data Format (TDF)
• Experience with design, development and implementation of data architectures, data standards, data tagging, and data formats to include XML, JSON, RDF and CSV.
• Experience with implementing database, data warehouse, or data analytics solutions.
• Experience with Splunk dashboards.
• Experience with data modeling and analytics in Python.
• Strong experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and Google Cloud.
• Performs highly specialized and technical tasks associated with the most current and cutting-edge technologies.
• Coordinates with contract management and customer to ensure the problems have been properly defined and the solutions satisfy customer needs.
• Performs complex system development, design, modeling, analysis, integration, and sustainment of systems for new or existing computer systems within an Enterprise.
• Developing and implementing testing strategies and documenting results.
• Communicates with customers and teammates clearly and concisely.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned and may have supervisory responsibilities.
• Developing documentation on new or existing systems.
• Linux experience.

Desired Skills

• Knowledge of federal policies, regulations, and standards:
  • CISA Cloud Security Technical Reference Architecture
  • CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model
  • DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture
  • M-22-09 Federal Zero Trust Strategy
  • National Security Systems Zero Trust Reference Architecture
  • NIST CSWP Planning for a Zero Trust Architecture - A Starting Guide for Administrators
  • NIST SP 800-207 Zero Trust Architecture
• Experience working with DIA.

Education and Experience

• HS/GED 14 years
• Associates Degree 12 years
• Bachelor's Degree 10 years
• Master's Degree 8 years
• PhD 6 years

Required Certifications

• None

Desired Certifications

• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification
• AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty
• Data Science Council of America (DASCA) Associate Big Data Engineer
• Data Science Council of America (DASCA) Senior Big Data Engineer
• Google Professional Data Engineer
• Cloudera Certified Professional (CCP) Data Engineer
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
• Forrester's Zero Trust Strategy
• SAS Certified Big Data Professional