TS/SCI Real-Time Data Ops Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions; Honolulu, Northern (HI, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Paid time off

Federal holidays

Sick leave

401k

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a TS/SCI cleared Tactical Data Operations Engineer to support the USAF Joint Fires Network in Honolulu, Hawaii. The role focuses on real-time data ingest, quality monitoring, and delivery of mission-critical feeds on a full-time, on-site basis.

The ideal candidate has 5–15 years in data engineering, strong scripting and visualization skills, and experience with diverse data formats and streaming tools. Local candidates with proximity to Ft. Shafter area preferred.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 5–15 years in data engineering or related experience.
• At least 1+ year of real-time data streaming experience.
• Strong experience with structured and unstructured data formats.
• Proficiency with Python.
• Experience with JSON or XML.
• Experience with data streaming tools (Kafka, Confluent, Kinesis, etc.)
• Experience with Linux OS.

Responsibilities

• Support continuous data ingest operations and monitor feeds.
• Visualize data findings with dashboards for leadership and users.
• Communicate trends with data manipulation and visualization tools.
• Collaborate with platform, software, and data engineering teams to reconfigure pipelines.
• Handle data in formats like Excel, CSV, JSON and XML.
• Support incident management and root-cause analysis for outages.
• Develop software to automate monitoring of real-time feeds with alerts.
• Leverage historical data to improve ingest performance and reliability.
• Contribute to design, development, testing of web-based collaboration tools.
• Demonstrate Python or Bash scripting for analytics and automation.
• Use open-source analytics and visualization tools to monitor system performance.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

Scripting

Data visualization

Linux OS

Real-time streaming

Education

Bachelors in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics/Info Systems

Tools

JSON

XML

Kafka

Confluent Platform

AWS Kinesis

NiFi

RabbitMQ

ZeroMQ

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a TS/SCI cleared Tactical Data Operations Engineer to support the USAF Joint Fires Network in Honolulu, Hawaii. The role focuses on real-time data ingest, quality monitoring, and delivery of mission-critical feeds on a full-time, on-site basis.

The ideal candidate has 5–15 years in data engineering, strong scripting and visualization skills, and experience with diverse data formats and streaming tools. Local candidates with proximity to Ft. Shafter area preferred.