Leidos
Data Engineering Software Developer
Washington, District of Columbia · Senior · Full-time
No sponsorship$108k-$195kDetected 27 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaReactGitSQLElasticsearchSnowflakeRedshiftDatabricksAWSGCPAzureKubernetesAnsibleCI/CDLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsKafkaSparkData Engineering
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Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level III)83
Fits your clock70
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About the role
- Description Join Leidos' Digital Sector as we stand up a brand-new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization, delivering real digital transformation where it matters most.
- We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Responsibilities
- Designs, builds, and maintains scalable, reliable data systems and pipelines to ingest, process, and transform large, complex, and disparate data sources for analytics and reporting.
- Implements solutions using Confluent Kafka, Elastic Stack, AWS, and Red Hat OpenShift (Kubernetes), including creating Kafka, Elastic, and Logstash pipelines and supporting Kibana visualizations and dashboards with React, JavaScript, and HTML.
- Develops and manages data warehouses and data lakes to support analytics, reporting, and operational dashboards, optimizing infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness through automation and best practices.
- Continually analyze and optimize ingestion throughput, query performance, indexing strategies, and storage efficiency across Elastic and Kafka platforms.
- Automates data-related tasks such as ETL/ELT processes, data validation, cleansing, monitoring, and supports CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
- Collaborates with data analysts, visualization engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver integrated, actionable data solutions, and documents data architecture, integration patterns, and operational procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline and 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience with data warehouse and/or data lake technologies (e.g., AWS Redshift, S3, Hadoop, Snowflake, or similar).
- Proficiency with data engineering tools and languages such as Python, Java, SQL, and shell scripting.
- Experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and/or Kafka for data ingestion and processing.
- Familiarity with network operations data (logs, metrics, events, ticketing, CMDB) and related data models.
- Experience with Linux/UNIX system administration and automation.
- Knowledge of data security, access controls, and compliance frameworks (DoD, DISA, RMF, STIGs).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerized pipelines, version control (Git, Bitbucket), and DevOps practices.
- An active TS/SCI clearance (required for consideration)
Nice to have
- Experience with big data technologies and platforms such as Kafka, Spark, NiFi, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Databricks, and ELK Stack for text mining, summarization, search, and entity extraction.
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud), cloud-integrated platforms, and infrastructure as code, including networking and security policies.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment, platform upgrades, patching, configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef), and monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic).
- Experience with BI tools like Kibana and developing and maintaining technical documentation and runbooks.
- Strong understanding and practical experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe), and related tools such as Atlassian JIRA and Confluence.
- Certified Confluent Developer and Certified Elastic Engineer.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working remotely with geographically dispersed teams and within a matrixed organization to combine software, integration, and data engineering practices.
- If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling.
Compensation
- Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
- The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
- Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025.
- Pay and Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it.
- About Leidos Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.
Visa & Work Authorization
- fied 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, pregna
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