Senior Application Engineer - NiFI

Full-time - Senior

Linthicum, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

LATTEART is the agency's implementation of the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF). LATTEART is a series of applications that fill in various gaps of the agency's RMF needs to include System Registration, Exemption Tracking, Patch Management, and System Monitoring. System Monitoring makes up the bulk of the work LATTEART does on a day-to-day basis. However, this distribution of applications, in conjunction with external partner apps results in difficulties for users navigating the RMF process. The current process forces users to jump from website to website filling out different pieces of information. LATTEART is tasked with creating a unified RMF infrastructure that can hold the entire process in one location.

Responsibilities

• Develop capabilities to shift from the current manual system security evaluation and authorization process to a new model that emphasizes automation, streamlined processes and approvals, continuous monitoring and assessment, and network data gathering across the entire life cycle of a project.
• Integrate data with tools such as Amazon S3, MongoDB, Apache Spark, and Elasticsearch, ensuring seamless data movement and processing.
• Optimize NiFi cluster architecture, performance tuning, and strategize data pipelines.
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot dataflows using Apache NiFi, including working with processors, connections, and templates.
• Deploy and manage NiFi in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and using cloud-native tools for data processing.
• Facilitate infrastructure management, continuous integration, environment configuration and deployment as well as supporting the project's compliance and security posture.
• Focus on delivering the automation that enables all the other teams to operate smoothly.
• Experience tracking work through JIRA workflows.

Requirements

• 12 years minimum experience and a High school Diploma/GED
• 10 years minimum experience and an Associate's degree
• 8 years minimum experience and a Bachelor's degree
• 6 years minimum experience and a Master's degree
• 4 years minimum experience and a Doctorate's degree
• All experience and education will be in a technical field directly related to the labor category being proposed and all diplomas, GED certificates, and degrees will be from accredited institutions.
• Need to have one of these qualifications: Linux system administration (Centos7, RedHat8), Experience with administering a NiFi cluster, Experience with Docker, Experience with Terraform code, Proficiency in Apache NiFi, Expertise in NiFi Expression Language, Data Integration and Big Data Tools, Performance Optimization, Cloud Integration, Scripting and Automation.

Nice-to-haves

• Cloud hosting and automation
• Experience working in Agile environment

Benefits

• healthcare
• wellness
• financial
• retirement
• family support
• continuing education
• time off benefits