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Data Ops Engineer VFDE

SAIC

San Diego, CA

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$200,001–$240,000 Per Year
SKILLS
Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Authentication, Bash Scripting, Computer Science, Cryptography, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Science, Data Visualization Tools, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Error Handling, Establish Priorities, Federal Government, Incident Management, Information Technology & Information Systems, JSON, Java Message Service (JMS), Leadership, Linux Operating System, Mathematics, Microsoft Windows Operating System, Operating Systems, Operational Support, Physics, Production Support, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Red Hat Linux Operating System, Root Cause Analysis, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Software Administration, Software Development, System Integration (SI), Systems Engineering, Top Secret Clearance, United States Citizen, Work From Home, XML (EXtensible Markup Language)
LOCATION
San Diego, CA
POSTED
Today
Job ID: 2612348

Location: San Diego, CA, US

Date Posted: 2026-05-08

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

We are seeking a Data Operations Engineer to design, build, and maintain real-time data ingestion pipelines. In this role, you will be responsible for the reliable flow of streaming data from a wide range of sources into our data platform, ensuring data quality, observability, and scalability. You'll partner closely with data engineers, platform engineers, and analytics teams to deliver trustworthy, low-latency data that supports operational decisions. This position is on-site in San Diego, CA.Aid the team in delivering continual data feeds to users and monitoring the status of the health of data quality and overall data ingest.
  • Aid the team in delivering continual data feeds to users and monitoring the status of the health of data quality and overall data ingest.
  • Build resilient pipelines with appropriate backpressure, prioritization, retries, and error-handling strategies.
  • Employ a variety of data manipulation and visualization tools to effectively convey status and historical trends to leadership, users, and data team.
  • Collaborate with platform, software, and other data engineers to (re)configure data ingestion pipelines to be more reliable.
  • Work with data in a variety of formats including Excel, CSV, JSON, and XML.
  • Support the incident management process to ensure that incidents are documented and resolved quickly. Perform root cause analysis to understand and
  • prevent repeated occurrences of data outages.
  • Develop and maintain software to automate monitoring of real-time feeds and alert for timeliness, volume, lineage, and distribution data issues. Process learnings and rely on historical data from data pipelines, translating them into actionable steps to improve data ingest.
  • Partner with security and governance teams to enforce encryption, authentication authorization, and data classification.
  • Demonstrate proficiency with frequent-used scripting language (Python, bash) commonly used in data science applications and data analytics.


Qualifications
  • U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI
  • Bachelor of Science required in the following preferred fields: Computer Science, Mathematics, EE, Physics, Information Systems, or Information Technology.
  • 3+ years of experience in data engineering, data operations, or DevOps roles supporting production data pipelines.
    Tools
  • Apps/Platforms: NiFi, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, Apache Flink/Spark Streaming, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MQTT, JMS
    Operating Systems: Windows, Linux (RedHat).


Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .

About the Company

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SAIC

SAIC is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's digital transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, IT modernization, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions. We are a team of 26,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2013
WEBSITE
https://jobs.saic.com/

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