Tactical Data Ops Engineer | TS/SCI | Real-Time Pipelines

Piper Companies; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k

PTO 20 days

federal holidays 11

Sick leave

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a TS/SCI-cleared Tactical Data Operations Engineer to support the USAF's Joint Fires Network in Honolulu, Hawaii. This on-site role focuses on managing real-time data ingest, monitoring quality, and delivering mission-critical data feeds to operators and leadership.

The ideal candidate has experience in data engineering, scripting, data visualization, and operational support within technical environments, with strong collaboration across cross-domain teams

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 5-15 years of data engineering or related experience.
• 1+ year experience with real-time data streaming.
• Proficiency with Python; JSON or XML experience.
• Experience with multiple data streaming tools listed above.
• Experience with Linux OS.

Responsibilities

• Support continuous data ingest operations and monitor pipeline health.
• Visualize data findings through dynamic reports and dashboards.
• Communicate real-time and historical trends using data tools.
• Collaborate with platform, software, and data engineering teams to improve pipelines.
• Work with Excel, CSV, JSON, and XML.
• Support incident management including root-cause analysis.
• Develop software to automate monitoring of real-time data feeds.
• Leverage historical data to improve ingest performance and reliability.
• Assist in designing web-based collaboration and reporting tools.

Skills

Python

Data visualization

Scripting

Linux

Real-time data streaming

Data engineering

Dashboards

Incident management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

Flink

Storm

Samza

Spark

Beam

Redpanda

NiFi

Confluent Platform

StreamNative

Cloudera Streaming

AWS Kinesis / Firehose

AWS MSK

Google Dataflow

RabbitMQ

NATS Jetstream

ZeroMQ

Kubernetes

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a TS/SCI-cleared Tactical Data Operations Engineer to support the USAF's Joint Fires Network in Honolulu, Hawaii. This on-site role focuses on managing real-time data ingest, monitoring quality, and delivering mission-critical data feeds to operators and leadership.

The ideal candidate has experience in data engineering, scripting, data visualization, and operational support within technical environments, with strong collaboration across cross-domain teams