$140,000 - $170,000 yearly
Metric5
St. Louis, MO
Metric5 Location: St. Louis, MO (On-site ~2 days a week)
Clearance: Top Secret Required
Position Overview
As a Data Engineer, you will work closely with O&M, development, product, design, and client teams to maintain, enhance, and deliver secure data infrastructure and search capabilities across client domains. The role requires experience building scalable, real-time data streaming architectures, designing CDC pipelines, and ensuring data is accessible, reliable, and mission-ready. You will help build, modernize, and sustain data workflows using AWS Cloud, OpenShift, and related technologies while supporting secure deployment, system performance, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain robust Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines extracting data from MySQL databases using Debezium and routing to Apache Kafka.
• Develop and optimize Apache Flink applications to consume Debezium topics, perform complex multi-table joins, and output...