Remote Senior Cloud Data Pipeline Engineer

GovCIO; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Certification Assistance

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to support the Cloud Data Pipeline for the US Coast Guard. This fully remote role focuses on implementing, maintaining, and sustaining a data ingestion platform across USCG environments using Confluent and Kafka.

The candidate will lead technical tasking, ensure compliance with DoD standards, and manage complex configurations while enabling resilient data sharing enterprise-wide.

Qualifications

• Active DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification in good standing (e.g., Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA-Security, GICSP, GSEC, CND, or SSCP).
• Advanced programming in Java, .NET, or Python.
• Strong Linux programming and system administration background.
• Experience with Confluent platform and Apache Kafka for enterprise data streaming.
• Ability to complete the USCG PUMP RBAC process for an admin account.
• Expert understanding of configuration management and system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end lifecycle tasks for the CDP in USCG cloud environments.
• Implement data ingestion and sharing between source and recipient systems.
• Ensure compliance with USCG software standards during implementation, maintenance, and sustainment.

Skills

Java

.NET

Python

Linux

Kafka

Confluent Platform

RBAC (PUMP)

Security+ CE

DoD 8570 IAT II

Education

High School + 9+ years experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

GovCIO seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to support the Cloud Data Pipeline for the US Coast Guard. This fully remote role focuses on implementing, maintaining, and sustaining a data ingestion platform across USCG environments using Confluent and Kafka.

The candidate will lead technical tasking, ensure compliance with DoD standards, and manage complex configurations while enabling resilient data sharing enterprise-wide.