Senior Data Engineer - DevOps

ADG Tech Consulting, LLC; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ADG Tech Consulting, LLC is looking for a Senior Data Engineer(DevOps) to contribute to modernization projects for government clients. You will maintain cloud-based infrastructure and support a variety of technologies including AWS, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD pipelines.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and experience with automation tools like Jenkins and Terraform. US citizenship is required for obtaining a government clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and Linux-based environments.
• Proven ability to support operations, maintenance, and reliability of customer systems.
• Familiarity with security and compliance activities.

Responsibilities

• Support the operations and maintenance of customer systems.
• Enhance cloud-based infrastructure for Data.gov applications.
• Develop automation for deployments and configuration management.
• Support CI/CD pipelines with various tools.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues.

Skills

Cloud-based infrastructure maintenance

CI/CD pipelines

Automation and scripting

Database management

DevOps practices

Monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Splunk)

Education

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Docker

PostgreSQL

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer(DevOps) to join our team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on modernization and technology transformation projects that will positively impact the critical missions of our government clients and solve challenges that aim to improve millions of lives across the globe.

Key Responsibilities

Support the operations, maintenance, and reliability of customer systems, including production monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

Maintain and enhance cloud-based infrastructure supporting Data.gov applications, APIs, data catalog services, search capabilities, databases, and data harvesting workflows.

Support AWS and Linux-based environments, including system configuration, application servers, web services, scheduled jobs, access controls, and environment stability.

Develop, maintain, and improve automation for deployments, infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and repeatable operational tasks.

Support CI/CD pipelines and release processes using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Docker, or similar technologies.

Work closely with application developers to support CKAN, Data.gov catalog services, Data Harvester components, APIs, search services, and related open data platform capabilities.

Monitor system performance, availability, logs, capacity, and security events using tools such such as CloudWatch, Splunk, New Relic, or similar monitoring platforms.

Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, database, network, security, and integration issues across development, test, staging, and production environments.

Support database and search platform operations, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Solr, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar technologies.

Support security and compliance activities, including vulnerability remediation, access control reviews, configuration hardening, ATO documentation, and implementation of federal security requirements.

Create and maintain technical documentation, including runbooks, standard operating procedures, system diagrams, deployment guides, and troubleshooting procedures.

Collaborate with developers, architects, security engineers, product owners, Scrum Masters, and government stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment.

Optional / Preferred Responsibilities

Support platform modernization efforts, including cloud optimization, DevSecOps improvements, reliability engineering, performance tuning, and technical debt reduction.

Assist with enhancements to APIs, Python scripts, data pipelines, Data Harvester functionality, CKAN components, and search improvements.

Support production release planning, including deployment readiness, smoke testing, rollback planning, and post-deployment validation.

Provide recommendations to improve system scalability, observability, maintainability, security, and operational efficiency.

Evaluate new tools, technologies, and practices that improve automation, monitoring, cloud operations, security, and overall platform reliability.

Education:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or similar required work

Authorization:

US citizenship required in order to obtain a US government Public Trust clearance