Senior Data Engineer — Remote (AWS/Kubernetes, Secure Data)

Jobicy; United States; Remote; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Paid Federal Holidays

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to design and operate secure data workflows across AWS and on-prem environments. You will manage Kafka/Redpanda pipelines on Kubernetes, focusing on scalability, security, and compliance with DoD standards.

We require at least five years of production data engineering experience, US citizenship, and the ability to obtain a Secret-level DoD clearance. This is a remote role open to the USA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production data pipelines, databases, and data exchange services on Kubernetes.
• Experience deploying Kafka/Redpanda data streaming solutions on Kubernetes.
• Experience building data pipelines from scratch handling large data volumes.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain Secret-level DoD clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate data workflows, pipelines, and ETL/ELT for secure data exchange.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability of data layer systems with backup/recovery strategies.
• Architect, deploy, and operate Kafka/Redpanda/Kinesis on Kubernetes with declarative configs.
• Collaborate with platform and cybersecurity teams to meet DoD and industry requirements.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL/ELT

Data pipelines

Kafka

Redpanda

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Cloud security

Tools

Kafka

Redpanda

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

AWS

Job description

Defense Unicorns is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to design and operate secure data workflows across AWS and on-prem environments. You will manage Kafka/Redpanda pipelines on Kubernetes, focusing on scalability, security, and compliance with DoD standards.

We require at least five years of production data engineering experience, US citizenship, and the ability to obtain a Secret-level DoD clearance. This is a remote role open to the USA.