Data Engineer - Senior
Cherokee Federal1 month ago
Reston, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate data management systems for intelligence needs.
- Design how data is stored, accessed, used, integrated, and managed across data regimes and digital systems.
- Create and populate data architectures, structures, and systems with data users.
- Plan, design, and optimize data throughput and query performance.
- Participate in selecting backend database technologies.
- Implement security baselines, controls, and network security policies on Linux and Windows hosts and servers.
- Stand up and manage compute and storage architectures using Citrix and/or VMware ESXi.
- Install, configure, update, and maintain physical and virtual servers, hardware, and software.
- Oversee or conduct backup, recovery, and reconstitution activities.
- Create and manage LDAP user accounts and implement and manage PKI authentication.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or a related STEM program, or four years of equivalent client-server engineering experience.
- Minimum of 12 years of related experience is preferred, with some experience preferably within the last two years.
- Experience with Linux systems, including Ubuntu and Red Hat, and Windows-based systems.
- Experience managing Linux and Windows servers hosted on VMware ESXi.
- Experience with Citrix and/or VMware ESXi compute and storage architectures.
- Experience installing and maintaining servers, engineering storage solutions, and virtual test environments.
- Experience implementing security baselines, network security controls, and other controls.
- Experience conducting backup, recovery, and reconstitution activities.
- Experience creating and managing LDAP accounts and implementing PKI authentication.
- DIA CIO 8570 compliance through Security+ or higher and ability to obtain Privileged Access Account authorization.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident and provide documentation.
- Must hold an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a polygraph, or an active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain the required polygraph.
- Must pass Cherokee Federal pre-employment qualifications and be able to work prolonged periods at a computer.
Benefits
- Starting salary range is $150,000–$175,000 annually.
- Up to a 6% 401(k) company match.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Basic life and AD&D insurance, supplemental life options, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Spending Account, and Health Savings Account options.
- Professional development, training, and certification support.
- Voluntary accident, critical illness, and identity theft protection benefits.
- The position is onsite in Reston, Virginia.
- Benefits are subject to change and eligibility requirements apply.
Tech Stack
LinuxWindows
Categories
Data Engineering
About Cherokee Federal
Cherokee Federal delivers professional and technical services to U.S. government customers across defense, IT, health, logistics, and intelligence under federal contracts. As the federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, it supports work for more than 60 federal agencies, and its success helps fund programs for the Cherokee Nation. The privately held company is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.