Data Analytics & Visualization Engineer (ELK)

Red River; O'Fallon (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Red River seeks a highly skilled Data Analytics & Visualization Engineer to design, build, and maintain data infrastructure and pipelines for DISA. You will create self-service analytics tools, craft Kibana dashboards, and translate insights into actionable recommendations for stakeholders across a mission-driven environment.

Responsibilities include gathering data, validating quality, and presenting findings to technical and non-technical audiences while adhering to security and compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or related field.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance and Security+ certification required.
• Experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for data analysis and visualization.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, Grafana for visualization.
• Experience developing self-service analytics solutions and reusable data assets.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools (JIRA, Confluence).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and big data technologies.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance best practices.
• Experience documenting data models, business logic, and transformation processes.

Responsibilities

• Gather, clean, and validate data from multiple sources to ensure accuracy and usability.
• Analyze complex datasets to identify trends and insights for operational questions.
• Design and develop interactive dashboards and reports using Kibana as primary tool.
• Apply UI/visual design principles and accessibility guidelines in dashboards.
• Translate analytical results into actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand business needs and data requirements.
• Refine and maintain data transformation pipelines ensuring data quality.
• Develop self-service analytics tools and reusable data assets for end users.
• Document data models, logic, and analytics workflows for transparency.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver integrated data solutions.

Skills

Data engineering

Data warehousing

Elastic Stack

Kibana

Tableau

Power BI

Grafana

JIRA

Confluence

Cloud platforms

DevOps

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Elastic Stack

Kibana

Tableau

Power BI

Grafana

JIRA

Confluence

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Analytics & Visualization Engineer to join our team at Scott Air Force Base, supporting the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The successful candidate will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure and pipelines to support the federation of structured and unstructured data across the DISA enterprise. This position requires a deep understanding of data engineering principles, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Gather, clean, and validate data from multiple sources to ensure accuracy, consistency, and usability.
• Analyze complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights that answer operational and business questions.
• Design and develop interactive dashboards, reports, and visualizations using Kibana as the primary tool, ensuring findings are communicated clearly and effectively to stakeholders.
• Applying the basics of visual design (i.e. UI) principles in their design work such as visual hierarchy, proximity, similarity, font selection and color theory and demonstrate an understanding of visual, layout, content organization, and accessibility guidelines.
• Translate analytical results into actionable recommendations and present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand business needs, operational challenges, and data requirements.
• Refine and maintain data transformation pipelines, ensuring data quality, reliability, and alignment with business logic.
• Develop and maintain self-service analytics tools and reusable data assets to empower end users.
• Document data models, business logic, transformation processes, and analytics workflows for transparency and knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with data engineers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to deliver integrated data solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or a related field.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance and current Security+ certification is required.
• Experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for data analysis and visualization.
• Experience with other data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Grafana, or similar.
• Experience developing self-service analytics solutions and reusable data assets.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and big data technologies.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance best practices.
• Experience documenting data models, business logic, and transformation processes.
• Experience working in mission-driven or operational environments.
• Understanding of network routing devices and network device configurations.
• Experience with text mining tools and techniques, including ELK Stack for summarization, search, and entity extraction.
• Familiarity with CI/CD techniques, containerized pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment, Agile methodologies, and tools.
• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud and cloud infrastructure, including networking and security policies.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and related tools. Experience with Atlassian tools, including JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and SAFe.
• Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage with customers, stakeholders, and team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus).
• Experience with DISA and DoD Networks.

Basic Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship Required

Red River offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits and an exceptional work environment. You can review our benefit offerings here.

EOE M/F/DISABLED/Vet

Red River is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. Discrimination or harassment based upon any protected characteristics as defined by state or federal law is wholly inconsistent with our company values and will not be tolerated.

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