Remote Data Pipeline Engineer – Junior

SERVISS - HUBZone Certified; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% medical, vision, dental, and life

Equity Participation Program

Annual performance bonuses and growth

401(k) retirement plan with 6% match

Job summary

SERVISS is seeking a Junior Data Pipeline Engineer to join the DHS CDM Data Services Program in the Washington DC area, with remote options. You will help build and maintain ingestion pipelines from Armis/Axonius into Elasticsearch, and support dashboards used by agency stakeholders.

This hands-on role is ideal for an early-career engineer aiming to grow expertise in data engineering, the Elastic Stack, and DevSecOps, with opportunities for growth and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in data engineering or related role (internships/labs counted).
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, IS, or related field.
• Proficient in Python for data manipulation and automation.
• Familiar with relational or NoSQL data concepts and data modeling.
• Experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch or ability to ramp quickly.
• Understanding of REST APIs and JSON data.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and maintain data-ingestion jobs into Elasticsearch from API sources under senior guidance.
• Write and maintain ingestion/transform scripts (Python) and Logstash ingest configurations.
• Monitor pipeline health, triage failures, and address data-quality issues.
• Assist in Elasticsearch mappings and Kibana dashboards and visualizations.
• Perform data validation and reconciliation between sources and Elasticsearch; document data lineage.
• Support maintenance tasks such as credential rotation, index cleanup, and retention.

Skills

Python scripting

REST APIs

JSON data handling

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Git

CI/CD

Docker

AWS/Azure

Job description

SERVISS is seeking a Junior Data Pipeline Engineer to join the DHS CDM Data Services Program in the Washington DC area, with remote options. You will help build and maintain ingestion pipelines from Armis/Axonius into Elasticsearch, and support dashboards used by agency stakeholders.

This hands-on role is ideal for an early-career engineer aiming to grow expertise in data engineering, the Elastic Stack, and DevSecOps, with opportunities for growth and collaboration across teams.