Data Engineer

CLEARANCE REQUIRED: Top Secret with SCI Eligibility
This job is located in: Tampa, Florida
QSL is looking for highly motivated individuals to support U.S. Special Operations Command in various locations.
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will support robust and repeatable data manipulation, large scale infrastructure for data ingestion, and stunning data visualization for custom client applications.
Qualifications and Job Summary:

• 5+ years of Data Engineering or Data Management experience.
• Strong SQL skills, and ability to identify issues with data.
• Understanding of database and database design
• Demonstrated experience with cleaning, processing, managing, and optimizing performance of large volumes of data.
• Demonstrated experience within an AWS environment (AWS certifications preferred)
• Familiarity with industry best-practices for software-hardware optimization when processing large sets of data.
• Experience with machine learning, with statistical modeling, time-series forecasting and/or geospatial analytics is preferred.
• Experience with Hadoop, Spark or other parallel storage/computing processes is a plus.
• Ability to travel to and work on site at clients as needed.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Hands on experience with cloud native data warehousing and data lake solutions with Azure ADF, Redshift, Snowflake, etc
• Engineering experience and seasoned coder in one or more relevant language: Python, Java, Scala, SQL, etc

Why work for QSL?
Our founders, Mel Wick and Bill Cronin, retired from storied careers in the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Community. Like many Americans and military veterans, they felt a strong desire to support the nation's response to the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in any way they could. They established QSL to do just that, Stay in the Fight! QSL is built on a SOF culture, emphasizing selfless-service and teamwork. Our employees work to ensure that warfighters have every possible resource and all necessary support to safely accomplish their missions in defense of our nation.
QSL's Benefit Package
Because we believe our employees are our most valuable asset, offering a competitive comprehensive compensation package is very important to us. It is the goal of QSL to attract and retain the highest level of experience and technical talent necessary for successful performance. In order to accomplish this, we feel that it is necessary to provide satisfying work, an excellent work environment, and we continually monitor the marketplace to ensure that our total compensation/benefit package remains competitive.
Listed below are some of our standard benefits. We combine all traditional paid time off (Federal holidays, sick time, leave time personal days, jury duty, bereavement, etc.) into one category which allows employees flexibility in how they use their leave time and enables them to better balance their career with their personal needs.

• Combined Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical, Dental, Life Insurance
• Disability (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Vision Insurance (CONUS-based employees)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Employee Discount Programs
• Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring, and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above listed items. EEO/AAP, M, F, V, D.