Data Engineer

AnaVation is looking for a talented Data Engineer who is passionate about technology and working with customers and a strong team to provide solutions for our mission-critical customer.  The ideal candidate appreciates partnering with our customer and a group of engineers to create innovative engineering solutions.  The candidate will work with a small group of developers building a cyber data-lake and related technologies.  If you are looking to be challenged, then this is the environment for you. This position supports remote work with occasional in-person team meetings in the Chantilly, VA area. 

Responsibilities

• Develop tools and processes to ingest cyber data into an enterprise data lake.
• Make recommendations on standards for a common cyber data model and standards for harmonization of common data elements on data ingest.
• Develop and evaluate tools to search, analyze, discover, and otherwise exploit data in the data lake to support investigative operations.
• The ideal candidate will possess an understanding of prior AnaVation experience, frameworks, and solutions in the big data management domain. 

Required Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relational database design and development (PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server)
• 5 or more years of ETL/ELT development experience
• 2 or more years with Linux environment experience
• 2 or more years of shell scripting experience
• Experience implementing data access controls
• Experience analyzing unstructured, structured, and semi-structured data
• Strong technical and computational skills, coupled with the ability relate data to use cases, mission requirements, and end-user experience  
• Experience with development in one or more programming or scripting languages (Java/Python/Go)  
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems. or related discipline

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience with cloud concepts and big data architectures such as Hadoop, Kafka, etc.
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools and practices
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS
• Experience working in Agile Environments
• Experience with DevOps toolsets
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Containerd, etc.)
• Experience with microservices

Clearance Requirements

• IRS Suitability