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Data Ops Engineer VFDE

San Diego, CA, US • Posted 30+ days ago • Updated 4 hours ago

Full Time

On-site

USD $200,001.00 - 240,000.00 per year

SAIC

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Skills

Security Clearance
Scalability
Analytics
Data Quality
Data Manipulation
Visualization
Leadership
Collaboration
Microsoft Excel
Computerized System Validation
JSON
XML
Incident Management
Root Cause Analysis
Real-time
Distribution
Encryption
Authentication
Authorization
Scripting Language
Python
Bash
Data Science
Data Analysis
Science
Computer Science
Mathematics
Physics
Information Systems
Data Engineering
DevOps
Apache NiFi
Grafana
Apache Flink
Apache Spark
Streaming
Snow Flake Schema
Elasticsearch
Apache Kafka
MQTT
JMS
Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows
Red Hat Linux
Information Technology
Systems Engineering
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Summary

Job ID: 2612348

Location: San Diego, CA, US

Date Posted: 2026-05-08

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

We are seeking a Data Operations Engineer to design, build, and maintain real-time data ingestion pipelines. In this role, you will be responsible for the reliable flow of streaming data from a wide range of sources into our data platform, ensuring data quality, observability, and scalability. You'll partner closely with data engineers, platform engineers, and analytics teams to deliver trustworthy, low-latency data that supports operational decisions. This position is on-site in San Diego, CA.Aid the team in delivering continual data feeds to users and monitoring the status of the health of data quality and overall data ingest.

Aid the team in delivering continual data feeds to users and monitoring the status of the health of data quality and overall data ingest.
Build resilient pipelines with appropriate backpressure, prioritization, retries, and error-handling strategies.
Employ a variety of data manipulation and visualization tools to effectively convey status and historical trends to leadership, users, and data team.
Collaborate with platform, software, and other data engineers to (re)configure data ingestion pipelines to be more reliable.
Work with data in a variety of formats including Excel, CSV, JSON, and XML.
Support the incident management process to ensure that incidents are documented and resolved quickly. Perform root cause analysis to understand and
prevent repeated occurrences of data outages.
Develop and maintain software to automate monitoring of real-time feeds and alert for timeliness, volume, lineage, and distribution data issues. Process learnings and rely on historical data from data pipelines, translating them into actionable steps to improve data ingest.
Partner with security and governance teams to enforce encryption, authentication authorization, and data classification.
Demonstrate proficiency with frequent-used scripting language (Python, bash) commonly used in data science applications and data analytics.

Qualifications

U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI
Bachelor of Science required in the following preferred fields: Computer Science, Mathematics, EE, Physics, Information Systems, or Information Technology.
3+ years of experience in data engineering, data operations, or DevOps roles supporting production data pipelines.
Tools
Apps/Platforms: NiFi, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, Apache Flink/Spark Streaming, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MQTT, JMS
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux (RedHat).

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 10111346
Position Id: 2612348
Posted 30+ days ago

Company Info

About SAIC

SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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