Principal Real-Time Data Operations Engineer

SAIC; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC in Honolulu, HI is seeking a Data Operations Engineer to design and maintain real-time ingestion pipelines supporting a mission-critical system across security domains. You will ensure data quality, observability, and low-latency processing, collaborating with data engineers, platform teams, and security personnel.

Responsibilities include building resilient pipelines with NiFi and REST APIs, implementing cross-domain transfer controls, and automating monitoring and alerting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of experience
• Master’s degree and 7+ years of experience
• PhD or JD and 4+ years of experience

Responsibilities

• Deliver continual data feeds and monitor data quality
• Design, build, and maintain real-time ingestion pipelines with NiFi and REST APIs
• Ensure cross-domain transfers comply with transfer policies
• Parse and transform data in Excel, CSV, JSON, and XML
• Use Grafana/Prometheus to convey pipeline status and data quality
• Automate monitoring and alert on timeliness, volume, lineage, and distribution issues
• Document data flows and system configurations

Skills

Python

Bash scripting

Linux (RedHat)

Data pipelines

ETL/ELT concepts

JSON/XML/CSV/Excel parsing

Cross-domain data transfers

Git

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 9+ years experience

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Snowflake

Git

Job description

SAIC in Honolulu, HI is seeking a Data Operations Engineer to design and maintain real-time ingestion pipelines supporting a mission-critical system across security domains. You will ensure data quality, observability, and low-latency processing, collaborating with data engineers, platform teams, and security personnel.

Responsibilities include building resilient pipelines with NiFi and REST APIs, implementing cross-domain transfer controls, and automating monitoring and alerting.