Real-Time Data Ops Engineer: Pipelines & Observability

Xenith Solutions; Smith (PA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Xenith Solutions is seeking a highly skilled Data Scientist to join our team, supporting Navy, DoD, and Intel communities with Python and data analytics expertise.

The role focuses on building real-time data ingestion pipelines, ensuring data quality and observability, and collaborating across data, platform, and analytics teams on mission-critical objectives. On-site in Camp Smith, HI, candidates should have DoD/IC data experience and a TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science required with preferred fields listed in the ad.
• Proven experience in data engineering, data operations, or DevOps.
• Experience with DoD/IC data sources (SIGINT, GEOINT, multi-INT) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain real-time data ingestion pipelines.
• Ensure data quality, observability, and low-latency data flow for operational decisions.
• Collaborate with data engineers, platform engineers, and analytics teams.
• Develop and maintain software to monitor real-time feeds and alert on issues.
• Handle data in formats like Excel, CSV, JSON, and XML.
• Configure data ingestion pipelines for reliability and backpressure.
• Work with security/governance teams on encryption and data classification.
• Perform root cause analysis to prevent outages and improve ingest.

Skills

Python

Data science libraries

Visualization/BI

DoD/IC data experience

Real-time data pipelines

Data quality observability

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Science in CS/Math/EE/Physics/Info Systems/Info Tech

Tools

NiFi

Kafka

Grafana

Prometheus

Flink/Spark Streaming

Snowflake

Elasticsearch

MQTT

JMS

Job description

Xenith Solutions is seeking a highly skilled Data Scientist to join our team, supporting Navy, DoD, and Intel communities with Python and data analytics expertise.

The role focuses on building real-time data ingestion pipelines, ensuring data quality and observability, and collaborating across data, platform, and analytics teams on mission-critical objectives. On-site in Camp Smith, HI, candidates should have DoD/IC data experience and a TS/SCI clearance.