Senior Enterprise Telemetry & Data Pipeline Engineer

GovCIO; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a Senior Data Engineer / Enterprise Telemetry & Data Pipeline SME to design, optimize, automate, and sustain large-scale data collection and streaming pipelines for Air Force Intelligence Community missions. Onsite at Lackland AFB, with Elastic, Splunk, Cribl, and AWS-based infrastructure.

The role emphasizes engineering scalable ingestion, routing, and observability, with strong focus on data quality, security, and reliable operations across distributed environments.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on experience engineering production data pipelines.
• Clearance: TS/SCI.
• 5+ years designing, implementing, or optimizing large-scale ingestion/telemetry pipelines.
• Experience serving as senior engineer/technical owner for production data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical owner for AF IC telemetry collection, ingestion, transformation, and delivery architectures.
• Architect end-to-end data flows from endpoints, servers, apps, and devices into Elastic, Splunk, and analytics platforms.
• Design resilient pipeline patterns with buffering, retry, backpressure, and failover.

Skills

Elastic ingestion

Splunk

Cribl

Python scripting

AWS

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Education

High School with 10+ years experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Git

Kubernetes

Docker

Logstash

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a Senior Data Engineer / Enterprise Telemetry & Data Pipeline SME to design, optimize, automate, and sustain large-scale data collection and streaming pipelines for Air Force Intelligence Community missions. Onsite at Lackland AFB, with Elastic, Splunk, Cribl, and AWS-based infrastructure.

The role emphasizes engineering scalable ingestion, routing, and observability, with strong focus on data quality, security, and reliable operations across distributed environments.