Senior-Level Data Engineer (Database Administrator) - Centcom

Celestar Corporation is seeking a Senior-level Data Engineer (Database Administrator) supporting the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) Directorate of Intelligence (J2) located at MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida and at a variety of other locations throughout CONUS/OCONUS and the USCENTCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR). If interested and qualified, we welcome you to apply for this challenging opportunity.

ANTICIPATED AWARD MONTH: June 2024
ANTICIPATED START MONTH: December 2024
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 1 Base Year + 4 Option Years
LOCATION: CENTCOM HQ on MacDill AFB (Tampa, FL)

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Active TS/SCI with Poly Security Clearance
About Us:

Celestar, a Veteran Owned Company is Very Competitive with Salaries and Benefits. As an example, we offer Company Paid Benefits that include Employee and Family Dental Insurance, Employee Health Insurance, Life Insurance and Disability Insurance as well. We also offer a 401K retirement company match, paid Holidays and Personal Time off.

Responsibilities:

• The Contractor shall research, support development of and prepare intelligence assessments in formats approved by DIA/CENTCOM, meet or exceed DIA/CENTCOM quality and tradecraft standards, and provide products within mutually agreed upon timelines.

• The primary focus is support for the CCJ2 Lakehouse Data Management platform and associated cloud applications and services.

• Contractors supporting this task will fulfill all projects under this focus area including: Enhance the AI/ML Test & Integration compute space in the Top-Secret Cloud Computing Services (TC2S) environment.

• Continue to develop software enhancements to the USCENTCOM J2 Lakehouse Data Management Platform fielded during prior contracts.

• Support new initiatives to develop domain specific UIs that enable operational elements to store data in the Lakehouse platform while simultaneously efficiently tagging/labeling data elements in accordance with new DOD and Intelligence Community (IC) standards.

• Provide data science support for the implementation, testing and development of AI/ML processing models to be used with USCENTCOM data.

• Support the implementation, security accreditation and administration of systems being fielded by USCENTCOM J2 in the UC2S, SC2S or TC2S cloud environments.

• Engineers will continually integrate additional AI/ML processes and management services into the CCJ2 Lakehouse platform to support streamlined operations, the development of enhanced data sets and the ability to share information on a global basis through the improved discoverability of data as the result of the implementation of the Lakehouse architecture.

• Data Engineers performing in the Senior Database Administrator role will design, develop, and maintain SQL database systems in support of AI/ML Branch requirements.

• The contractor must be familiar with cloud-based solutions.

• Direct experience with the Amazon Web Service (AWS) line of relational databases services (RDS, Aurora) is highly desirable.

• The Contractor must have a familiarity with architectural styles/application programming interfaces (APIs) such as REST and RPC.

• The contractor must have proven experience working in an Agile development environment.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• The contractor must be familiar with cloud-based solutions.

• The Contractor must have a familiarity with architectural styles/application programming interfaces (APIs) such as REST and RPC.

• The contractor must have proven experience working in an Agile development environment.

Desired Education: Master’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master’s degree.

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Celestar is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, disability status, gender identity or national origin.