Data Engineer

Company: Leidos
Location: Reston
Posted on: February 23, 2021

Job Description:

Coronavirus is on everyone's mind with the effects being felt around the world. The markets are volatile, and we're all concerned for the health and safety of our families, friends, and colleagues. Please know that we're taking all necessary measures to safeguard our employees, customers and the communities in which we live, including following all recommended best practices around social distancing. With that in mind, in an abundance of caution, we are canceling all face to face career events, such as job fairs and open house events. In the coming days and weeks, we will be hosting career events virtually, using our online chat tools so that we may continue our hiring practice safely and securely. You can find available virtual career events at https://career-events.leidos.com . We are using telephone meetings and online chats via Brazen to conduct interviews and hiring discussions, and we are offering options for video interviews so that you can have a virtual face to face meeting with your potential new leader. We do not conduct interviews or extend offers via text or chat based social media, such as WhatsApp or MySpace. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process, nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are generated by Leidos.com automated system. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to Chris Scalia, Leidos' Senior Vice President of Talent Acquisition, at chris.a.scalia@leidos.com . As a company, as a country, as a world, we have confronted challenging moments before. We are confident that, guided by our values and the strength of our community as well as the commitment we have to the important work we do each day, we will find our way through this time together. We will do this with the care and concern for one another and the common good that defines. Please keep those impacted by the virus in your thoughts. Job #: R-00044549
Location: Reston, VA
Category: Software Engineering
Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time
Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the time
Shift: Day
Potential for Telework: No
Clearance: Top Secret
Referral Eligibility : Eligible
Group: Leidos Innovations Center (LInC) Description Job Description:Are you ready to join Leidos all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.The Leidos Innovations Center has an exciting opening for you, our next Data Engineer to assist with the design, development and implementation of alternative data ingestion pipelines to augment the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) data services in Reston, VA. The DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) program is a next generation machine learning pipeline platform providing cutting edge data enrichment, triage, and analytics capabilities to Defense and Intelligence Community members. This engineer will collaborate as part of a cross-functional Agile team to create and enhance data ingestion pipelines and addressing Big data challenges.--You will work closely with the chief architect, systems engineers, software engineers, and data scientists on the following key tasks:--- Provide Extraction, Transformation, and Load (ETL) experience coupled with enterprise search capabilities to solve Big Data challenges
--- Design and implement high-volume data ingestion and streaming pipelines using Open Source frameworks like Apache Spark, Flink, Nifi, and Kafka on AWS Cloud
--- Leverage strategic and analytical skills to understand and solve customer and business centric questions
--- Create prototypes and proofs of concept for iterative development
--- Learn new technologies and apply the knowledge in production systems
--- Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues on the enterprise data pipelines and the data lake
--- Partner with various teams to define and execute data acquisition, transformation, processing and make data actionable for operational and analytics initiatives--This is you?
--- BS in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related technical field or equivalent experience with at least 8+ years in systems engineering or administration (4+ years with a MS/MIS Degree).
--- Must have an active Top Secret security clearance and able to obtain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.
--- 2 years of experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, NiFi
--- 2 years of experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python (preferred) and/or Java
--- 2 years of experience with and managing data across relational SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, HDFS, Redis, and Elasticsearch
--- 2 years of experience working in a Linux environment
--- Experience working with and designing REST APIs
--- Experience developing data ingest workflows with stream-processing systems: Spark-Streaming, Kafka Streams and/or Flink
--- Experience transforming data in various formats, including JSON, XML, CSV, and zipped files
--- Experience developing flexible ontologies to fit data from multiple sources and implementing the ontology in the form of database mappings / schemas
--- Good interpersonal and communication skills necessary to work effectively with customers and other team members.You will wow us if you have these skills:
--- Data engineering experience in Intelligence Community or other government agencies
--- Experience with Microservices architecture components, including Docker and Kubernetes.
--- Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, S3, EMR, RDS, Redshift, Athena and/or Glue
--- Experience with Jira, Confluence and extensive experience with Agile methodologies.
--- Knowledge about security and best practices.
--- Experience developing flexible data ingest and enrichment pipelines, to easily accommodate new and existing data sources
--- Experience with software configuration management tools such as Git/Gitlab, Salt, Confluence, etc.
--- Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and their enabling tools such as Jenkins, Nexus, etc.
--- Detailed oriented/self-motivated with the ability to learn and deploy new technology quicklyAdditional Program Information
The DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) program will advance the state of the art in mission-focused big data analytics tools and micro-service development spanning the breadth of Agile sprints to multiyear research and development cycles. We are looking for you to have a demonstrated aptitude for problem solving complex technical issues, identifying, transforming, thinking outside the box, and a strong sense of accountability. Have a mix of technical excellence, intellectual curiosity, communications skills, customer-focus, and operational experience to improve the performance and user adoption of high-end data analytics platforms in partnership with a highly qualified, highly motivated team. Be motivated, self-driven team player who can multi-task and interact well with others and advise/consult with other team members on systems engineering and software development related issues.LInC
D3P
External Referral EligibleExternal Referral Bonus:EligiblePotential for Telework:NoClearance Level Required:Top SecretTravel:Yes, 10% of the timeScheduled Weekly Hours:40Shift:DayRequisition Category:ProfessionalJob Family:Software Engineering About LeidosLeidos is a Fortune 500 -- --information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 38,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com . Pay and BenefitsPay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here .Securing Your DataLeidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to spam.leidos@leidos.com .Commitment to DiversityAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws. Description Job Description:LEIDOS is currently... Description Job Description:The Aviation business... Join our Talent Community to create a profile, enabling a streamlined application process and to help our recruiters better understand your areas of expertise and interest. Contact us about product information and pricing, customer feedback, stockholder services, or just to voice a concern.

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