Hybrid Data Operations Engineer

Mission Technologies, a division of HII; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid employee health, vision and

10% 401k benefit

PTO + 10 paid holidays

Education/training allowances

Job summary

Enlighten, a leader in big data solutions, is hiring a Data Operations Engineer in a hybrid role with required Top Secret clearance. You will guide data pipelines, ensure reliability, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver timely analytics from cloud-based data ecosystems.

You will oversee data flows, optimize performance, and drive automated operations while maintaining strong client communication and project delivery.

Qualifications

• Clearance required: active Top Secret; U.S. Citizenship required.
• 9+ years in technical operations, systems engineering, or data management with a Bachelor's degree; or 7 years with a Master's; or 13 years with a HS Diploma.
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, data orchestration, and high-volume data flow.
• Observability and log analysis proficiency to minimize data latency.
• SQL data validation in collaboration with the team and customer.
• Scripting for automation using Python or Java to build reusable libraries.
• Strong technical communication translating customer needs to engineering tasks.

Responsibilities

• Customer interface: lead liaison between customer and technical team; translate data needs into tasks.
• Oversee daily DataOps team operations to accelerate data availability and reduce latency.
• Oversee deployment and maintenance of data flows using core libraries and templates.
• Perform cluster performance tuning and monitor pipelines for data health.
• Drive evolution of data platform toward proactive, automated operations.
• Coordinate across ecosystem to reuse scripts and flow strategies.
• Implement automated data quality gates and schema validations.
• Lead debugging of complex dataflow problems across distributed environments.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Security clearance

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

SQL data validation

Python/Java scripting

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

High School Diploma + 13 years experience

Tools

SQL

Python

Java

ETL tooling

Cloud tooling

Job description

Enlighten, a leader in big data solutions, is hiring a Data Operations Engineer in a hybrid role with required Top Secret clearance. You will guide data pipelines, ensure reliability, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver timely analytics from cloud-based data ecosystems.

You will oversee data flows, optimize performance, and drive automated operations while maintaining strong client communication and project delivery.