

Mid-Level Data Engineer – Contract
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This role is for a Mid-Level Data Engineer on a contract basis, requiring 3+ years of Agile experience, proficiency in Python and AWS, and expertise in data services. Contract length and pay rate are unspecified; location is remote.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
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🗓️ - Date discovered
August 4, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location type
Unknown
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📄 - Contract type
Unknown
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Falls Church, VA
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Apache Airflow #JavaScript #DevOps #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Java #REST (Representational State Transfer) #Flask #Agile #Django #Trino #Data Engineering #SQL (Structured Query Language) #DevSecOps #Spring Boot #FastAPI #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Big Data #AWS EMR (Amazon Elastic MapReduce) #Cloud #Libraries #RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) #Computer Science #Security #REST API #Airflow #Programming #System Security #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #React #ML (Machine Learning) #Python #Kubernetes #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)"
Role description
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Job Summary:
Rackner is a software consultancy that builds cloud-native solutions for startups, enterprises, and the public sector. They are seeking a Data Engineer to work within an Agile DevSecOps team, focusing on architecting and implementing cloud-native applications and data-related services.
Responsibilities:
• Working within an Agile DevSecOps team environment using latest cloud-native technologies to architect and implement containerized applications, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes platforms using best practices and leading technologies.
• Using DevSecOps best practices to rapidly develop and deliver first class solutions for a DoD customer.
• Developing software using leading languages and frameworks including Python (FastAPI), AWS, and Rancher Kubernetes.
• Leveraging Test Driven Development and User Centered design best practices automate testing and ensure delivered software meets and exceeds customer needs.
• Applying software design best practices to identify and analyze potential solutions, generate design diagrams to convey and capture system design, and participate in technical exchange meetings to discuss with the team and customer stakeholders.
• Embracing a shared responsibility for system security.
• Performing threat modeling to identify and mitigate system security threats, implement protective and preventive security measures continuously throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Continuously engaging with project teams to deliver quality products.
• Participating in daily standups, sprint planning/review meetings, discover and framing workshops, and customer demo sessions.
Qualifications:
Required:
• B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) and at least 3 years professional experience working as part of an Agile team using DevOps practices and modern programming languages and frameworks to develop and engineer data-related services and applications to cloud platforms
• Modern programming languages and frameworks including Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask), JavaScript (Node.js, Express, Vue, Svelte, React), and Java (Spring Boot)
• Developing data focused solutions to include experience designing and implementing OpenAPI compliant data schemas and REST APIs, implementing data persistence and query logic using Object Relational Mapping (ORM) libraries and SQL, and implementing data validation business rules
• Mature AWS cloud solutions with a specific focus on data services such as S3, RDS, and EMR
Preferred:
• M.S in Computer Science or related
• AI/ML
• Kubernetes (Rancher RKE2, AWS EKS) and microservice architectures
• Data engineering and big data technologies such as Apache Airflow, Trino, and AWS EMR
• NIST Risk Management Framework and security accreditation process and tasks
Company:
Rackner is a cloud-native consultancy which enables Digital Transformation for enterprises and startups Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.