Data Analytics & Visualization Engineer (ELK)

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Analytics & Visualization Engineer to join our team at Scott Air Force Base, supporting the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

About the role

The successful candidate will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure and pipelines to support the federation of structured and unstructured data across the DISA enterprise. This position requires a deep understanding of data engineering principles, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Gather, clean, and validate data from multiple sources to ensure accuracy, consistency, and usability.
• Analyze complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights that answer operational and business questions.
• Design and develop interactive dashboards, reports, and visualizations using Kibana as the primary tool, ensuring findings are communicated clearly and effectively to stakeholders.
• Apply visual design (UI) principles such as visual hierarchy, proximity, similarity, font selection, and color theory, and demonstrate an understanding of visual layout, content organization, and accessibility guidelines.
• Translate analytical results into actionable recommendations and present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand business needs, operational challenges, and data requirements.
• Refine and maintain data transformation pipelines, ensuring data quality, reliability, and alignment with business logic.
• Develop and maintain self-service analytics tools and reusable data assets to empower end users.
• Document data models, business logic, transformation processes, and analytics workflows for transparency and knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with data engineers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to deliver integrated data solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or a related field.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance and current Security+ certification is required.
• U.S. Citizenship.

Skills

• Experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for data analysis and visualization.
• Experience with other data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Grafana, or similar.
• Experience developing self-service analytics solutions and reusable data assets.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and big data technologies.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance best practices.
• Experience documenting data models, business logic, and transformation processes.
• Experience working in mission-driven or operational environments.
• Understanding of network routing devices and network device configurations.
• Experience with text mining tools and techniques, including ELK Stack for summarization, search, and entity extraction.
• Familiarity with CI/CD techniques, containerized pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment, Agile methodologies, and tools.
• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud and cloud infrastructure, including networking and security policies.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and related tools, including Atlassian tools (JIRA and Confluence).
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and SAFe.
• Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage with customers, stakeholders, and team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus).
• Experience with DISA and DoD Networks.

Benefits

Red River offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits. Review our benefit offerings here.