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Salary
$150,000–$180,000
Posted
Jul 25, 2026
Location
Last confirmed open
Jul 26, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior DataOps Engineer role focused on building and maintaining enterprise data infrastructure in regulated government cloud environments. Day-to-day work covers migrating data workloads from AWS Commercial to AWS GovCloud, owning Microsoft Fabric platform engineering, designing ELT/ETL pipelines, and implementing CI/CD and data quality frameworks under NIST 800-171 and DFARS compliance requirements. Best suited to an experienced data/cloud engineer comfortable spanning both data engineering and infrastructure responsibilities in a defense or government contracting context.

Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Secret clearance · Full-time

Pay in the description: $150,000–$180,000

Must have (20)
Python or PowerShellAWS GovCloudAWS S3RedshiftTerraformMicrosoft Fabric or Azure Synapse Analytics · 2+ yrsAzure Data FactoryADLS Gen2Azure DatabricksMicrosoft PurviewAzure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Gitlab CiGitDockerKubernetesApache AirflowdbtApache Kafka or Azure Event HubsPySparkT-SQLPower BI
Nice to have (14)
AnsibleBicep or Arm TemplatesScalaKQLPostgreSQLSQL ServerMongoDBCassandraRedisCosmos DBGreat ExpectationsTalend or InformaticaAzure MonitorSQLAlchemy

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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How this req sits in the market our data

What gives you an edge
Microsoft Fabric4%dbt4%Redshift5%Azure Data Factory5%Apache Airflow5%PySpark8%Power BI10%Apache Kafka12%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Docker53%Python51%Azure DevOps40%GitHub Actions40%T-SQL40%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $106,921 (middle half $81,361–$138,439). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (11)

SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role spans data pipeline/warehouse architecture (15-1243) and substantial software/infrastructure engineering (15-1252). The primary framing — designing enterprise data models, medallion architecture, Lakehouse topology, and owning the full data platform — tips toward 15-1243, but the heavy CI/CD, IaC, and containerization work is a strong 15-1252 signal.

Python and PowerShell are listed as a required pair where either satisfies the gate ('Python or PowerShell'); they are captured as one required skill with the other as an alternative.

Ansible is explicitly marked 'Preferred' in the Technical Skills section and is treated accordingly.

Bicep/ARM Templates appear under a 'Supporting' sub-heading in the Technical Skills section, indicating optional/supplementary rather than gated; treated as preferred.

Scala, KQL, and the database/NoSQL technologies (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Cosmos DB) appear in the Technical Skills narrative/stack listing without gating language; treated as preferred.

The degree requirement accepts 'equivalent hands-on experience' as a substitute for the Bachelor's degree, so no minimum degree is hard-gated.

Clearance is gated: candidates must hold or be able to obtain a DoD Secret clearance. TS/SCI is not required.

The posted salary range ($150,000–$180,000) is base only; the posting explicitly notes it excludes benefits and bonus/incentive.

The '2+ years with Microsoft Fabric or Azure Synapse Analytics' is a stated experience gate; captured on the Microsoft Fabric skill with the years demanded of 2.

All certifications listed under Preferred Qualifications (AWS CSA, Terraform Associate, DP-600, DP-203, etc.) are preferred credentials, not named technologies; they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.

Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.

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