Data Operations Engineer

Essential Job Responsibilities

Customer Engagement: Serve as a primary technical liaison between the customer and Evlos technical teams, managing expectations, communicating technical roadmaps, and translating mission-specific data requirements into actionable engineering tasks.

Operational Leadership: Help lead the daily operations of the DataOps team with a focus on accelerating data availability, improving reliability, and minimizing the time between initial data identification and production availability.

Systems Engineering: Oversee the deployment, maintenance, and optimization of data flows using standardized templates, shared libraries, and engineering best practices.

Platform Reliability: Monitor platform and pipeline performance and proactively identify opportunities to improve availability, stability, and operational efficiency.

Performance Tuning: Lead cluster performance tuning and pipeline monitoring to maintain data health and minimize data discovery latency.

Automation & Optimization: Drive the technical evolution of the data platform from reactive maintenance toward proactive monitoring, automation, and adaptive operations.

Data Pipeline Management: Ensure mission-critical data pipelines are scalable, reliable, documented, and aligned with customer requirements.

Ecosystem Coordination: Facilitate technical collaboration across teams to ensure successful scripts, flow strategies, automation, and engineering practices can be reused across the broader environment.

Quality Governance: Develop and implement automated quality gates, schema validation, and other controls to maintain data integrity before data reaches production environments.

Technical Troubleshooting: Lead the decomposition and resolution of complex technical problems involving systemic data flow issues across distributed messaging, orchestration, and cloud environments.

Technical Leadership: Provide guidance and mentorship to technical team members while promoting consistent engineering standards and operational best practices.

Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes, increase automation, improve platform resiliency, and accelerate delivery of mission-critical data.

Perform additional duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance required at the time of hire.

U.S. citizenship is required.

9+ years of relevant experience in technical operations, systems engineering, data management, or a related discipline with a Bachelor’s degree; OR

7+ years of relevant experience with a Master’s degree in a related field; OR

High School Diploma or equivalent with 13+ years of relevant experience.

Demonstrated experience managing high-volume data flows and storage solutions, including distributed messaging, data orchestration, and cloud-native storage technologies.

Strong understanding of distributed systems and complex data ecosystems.

Experience with enterprise observability, monitoring, and log-analysis platforms used to evaluate system health, troubleshoot issues, and minimize data discovery latency.

Strong understanding of network data, metadata, data quality, and structured and semi-structured log formats, including JSON and XML.

Experience managing Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes supporting rapid data availability and analytics.

Experience using SQL for data validation, troubleshooting, and collaboration with technical teams and customers.

Experience using scripting or programming languages such as Python or Java to automate repetitive processes, develop shared capabilities, and improve operational efficiency.

Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex data pipeline and distributed-system issues.

Strong technical leadership and problem-solving skills.

Exceptional communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Demonstrated ability to translate customer mission requirements into actionable technical specifications and engineering priorities.

Must obtain Security+ certification within 60 days of hire.

Ability to work in a hybrid environment, spending an average of 1–2 days per week on-site in San Antonio, TX, with flexibility to accommodate changes in customer or mission schedules.

Preferred Qualifications

Active TS/SCI U.S. Government security clearance.

Previous experience in a technical account management, customer success engineering, or other customer-facing technical role.

Experience designing, supporting, or operating scalable distributed data-processing architectures.

Experience with cloud-native data storage solutions.

Previous experience supporting cybersecurity, network security, or other mission-critical technical operations.

Knowledge of implementing automated Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), data masking, or similar data governance and access-control capabilities within production pipelines.

Experience leading or mentoring technical teams in complex operational environments.

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About Evlos Technology

Serving our customers, partners, and Solvers, by Advocating for professional and personal improvement and growth, to Solve the most complex problems through evolving technology and ideas.

Evlos Technology was established on the belief that nurturing people and their careers transforms lives and enhances customer satisfaction. Our Solvers are the heartbeat of our company, and their well-being and growth are our top priority. That’s why we cultivate an opportunity-rich culture where our team can excel and reach their full potential. Through our passion to serve the mission, we can achieve great things together.

Our culture is not just shaped by our values, it’s defined by them.

Evlos Technology is looking for problem solvers and “opportunity capitalizers”. These individuals are able to understand how to use their background to solve customer problems and innovate in a manner that brings new opportunities to light.

Why Evlos?

Competitive Pay- We maximize your income potential by passing through as much earned revenue as possible, giving you more control of your hard-earned money.

Referral Bonus- Our unique Referral Bonus Program is the gift that keeps giving! In addition to a referral bonus, you will continue to receive a bonus on each hired referral twice a year for the duration of their tenure with us!

Health Insurance- Healthcare isn’t one-size-fits-all. Evlos provides Solvers with a healthcare subsidy, giving you the flexibility to choose the healthcare option that works best for you and your family.

401k- Regardless of your own contributions, Evlos contributes up to 10% of your income into your retirement account.

Paid Time Off- We believe in a healthy work-life balance. Our standard accrual for each hour you work earns approximately 6 weeks of PTO per year with 40 hours fronted on date of hire. We offer additional leave for maternity leave, paternity leave, military leave, jury duty and bereavement leave.

Company Profit Sharing- Our success is directly tied to your hard work, so we spread the wealth with YOU. Tenure-based profit sharing is paid out annually.

Professional Development- Employees can be reimbursed up to $5,250 per year for pro dev expenses.

Well Tech Benefit- Employees can submit for reimbursement towards wellness and tech related expenses.

Evlos provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.