Data Engineer — Edge Telemetry & Enterprise Analytics

Peraton; Waipahu (HI); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Data Engineer to support SITEC 3 Enterprise Operations and Maintenance for USSOCOM. You will build and maintain robust data ingestion pipelines, edge processing, and standardized tagging schemas to ensure high-fidelity data lineage and compliant telemetry integration.

The role requires hands-on experience with logging platforms, data routing, and secure transport paths, enabling threat hunting and comprehensive compliance reporting across enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years with a High School degree, 10 years with AS/AA, 8 years with BS/BA, 6 years with MS/MA.
• DoD 8570 IAT II Certification required.
• DoD TS/SCI clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Ingest structured and unstructured telemetry into the enterprise deployment.
• Configure and optimize data forwarding at the edge (Forwarders/Processors).
• Design standardized data tagging and field extraction schemas.
• Develop add-ons to parse and enrich non-standard mission data sources.
• Troubleshoot data parsing, event timing, and search latency issues.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to ensure secure, encrypted transport paths.
• Implement data reduction strategies to optimize licensing costs.
• Maintain documentation including data flow diagrams and ingestion matrices.

Skills

Data integration

Python

Edge processing

Data tagging

Data analytics

Security monitoring

Education

High School Diploma

AS/AA degree

BS/BA degree

MS/MA degree

Tools

Splunk

Kafka

NiFi

syslog-ng

Rsyslog

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Data Engineer to support SITEC 3 Enterprise Operations and Maintenance for USSOCOM. You will build and maintain robust data ingestion pipelines, edge processing, and standardized tagging schemas to ensure high-fidelity data lineage and compliant telemetry integration.

The role requires hands-on experience with logging platforms, data routing, and secure transport paths, enabling threat hunting and comprehensive compliance reporting across enterprise environments.