Data Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Data Pipelines

CohesionForce, Inc; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CohesionForce, Inc in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and support data services used by engineering applications, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities. You will ensure reliable orchestration, storage, lineage, and secure data access, while enabling software teams to operate repeatable data workflows.

Collaborate with software, AI, reliability, and customer teams to translate data needs into scalable platform capabilities, with on-site work in a classified

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 5 years of experience, or 3 years with a related Master’s degree.
• Experience designing and operating production data platforms or distributed data services.
• Experience with Python, SQL, data modeling, APIs, and automated data workflows.
• Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift, containers, Linux, and CI/CD.
• Experience with object storage and at least one relational, document, or graph database technology.
• Experience with data quality, lineage, access control, backup, restore, and operational troubleshooting.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly and document repeatable procedures.
• Works well in a fast-paced collaborative team environment.
• Must be willing to work onsite in a closed/classified area and hold DoD Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate workflow orchestration, object storage, relational database, and graph database services in Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Build reusable data ingestion, transformation, validation, publication, and access patterns.
• Design data lifecycle, retention, schema migration, backup, restore, and recovery procedures.
• Develop self-service capabilities that allow teams to create and operate repeatable data workflows.
• Implement access controls, service identities, secret handling, and least-privilege data access with identity and platform engineers.
• Diagnose data quality, lineage, workflow, database, storage, performance, and availability issues.
• Automate deployment and configuration using Python, SQL, GitOps, infrastructure as code, Helm, and CI/CD.
• Instrument data services with logs, metrics, traces, health checks, and service-level indicators.
• Develop technical documentation, data contracts, operating procedures, and recovery runbooks.
• Work directly with software, AI, reliability, and customer teams to translate data needs into supportable platform capabilities.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Onsite work

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, information technology or related discipline

Tools

Python

SQL

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Linux

CI/CD

Object storage

Relational/Document/Graph DB

Data modeling

Job description

CohesionForce, Inc in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and support data services used by engineering applications, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities. You will ensure reliable orchestration, storage, lineage, and secure data access, while enabling software teams to operate repeatable data workflows.

Collaborate with software, AI, reliability, and customer teams to translate data needs into scalable platform capabilities, with on-site work in a classified