What Impact You'll HaveGRVTY is seeking a Data Operations Engineer to support the reliability, availability, and timely delivery of mission-critical data. In this customer-facing DataOps role, you will coordinate technical operations, guide dataflow owners, and help evolve high-volume data pipelines toward reliable, automated, and proactively monitored services.
What You'll be Owning- Serve as a technical point of contact with customer stakeholders; translate mission data needs into engineering tasks, workflows, and clear delivery expectations.
- Help lead day-to-day DataOps activities and coordinate flow owners responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and improving data infrastructure.
- Oversee dataflow deployment and maintenance using standardized engineering templates, core libraries, and reusable processes.
- Monitor pipeline health, data availability, system uptime, and discovery latency across distributed messaging, orchestration, and cloud environments.
- Tune cluster and pipeline performance; diagnose systemic dataflow and platform-stability issues and coordinate technical remediation.
- Implement automated quality gates, schema checks, and validation workflows to protect production data integrity.
- Improve ETL workflows, metadata completeness, network-data handling, and the consistency of data delivered to analysts and customers.
- Apply scripting, automation, and operational feedback to help transition from reactive troubleshooting to proactive, adaptive data operations.
- Share proven workflows and technical approaches across teams, and communicate operational status and platform evolution to stakeholders.
This position supports a customer site in Fort Meade, MD. Onsite attendance is typically four to five days per week and may change with customer requirements.
What You Must Have- U.S. citizenship and a current, active U.S. Government Secret security clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI.
- At least 9 years of experience in technical operations, systems engineering, or data management with a relevant bachelor's degree; 7 years with a related master's degree; or 13 years with a high-school diploma or equivalent.
- Proven experience supporting high-volume dataflows and storage across distributed messaging systems, data orchestration engines, and cloud-native storage platforms.
- Experience with observability and log-analysis tools to monitor system health, dataflow performance, and data discovery latency.
- Understanding of network data, metadata completeness or fill rates, and common log or data formats such as JSON and XML.
- Experience managing ETL workflows and using SQL to validate data quality in coordination with technical teams and customers.
- Ability to automate repeatable operational tasks through Python or Java scripting and reusable shared libraries.
- Ability to troubleshoot distributed dataflow issues, support performance tuning, and implement automated quality checks and schema validation.
- Strong customer-facing communication, technical coordination, and requirements-translation skills, including explaining complex systems to nontechnical stakeholders.
- Ability to work at a customer site in Fort Meade, MD, four to five days per week and adapt to changes in the customer schedule.
What Would be Nice to Have- A currently active TS/SCI clearance.
- Prior experience in customer-facing engineering, technical account management, or customer success.
- Experience designing or operating scalable distributed processing and cloud-native storage architectures.
- Experience supporting cyber or network-security operations.
- Knowledge of automated attribute-based access control (ABAC) or data masking within production pipelines.
Pay Range: At GRVTY, we understand that compensation is influenced by many factors-such as geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications.
We're proud to offer a work environment that empowers our team to achieve a strong work-life balance. GRVTY provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.
Our benefits package is designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families, and includes coverage in areas such as healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.
- The pay range for this position is: $103,690 - $160,605
Pay Range: At GRVTY, we understand that compensation is influenced by many factors-such as geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications.
We're proud to offer a work environment that empowers our team to achieve a strong work-life balance. GRVTY provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.
Our benefits package is designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families, and includes coverage in areas such as healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.
Maryland Pay Range
$103,690-$160,605 USD
