Job Abstract

Are you interested in using your skills to help shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel space? If so, look no further. We are seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our team of passionate individuals. In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the nation’s security and intelligence mission.

Provide cloud software development/engineering services to include requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution. Work on a software development program proving software development engineering strategies for environments using Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Map Reduce, and other related cloud technologies. Provide set-up, configuration, and software installation for development, test, and production systems. Interface directly with development team as well as system end users. Review and test infrastructure components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Resolves reported system issues. Utilizes infrastructure engineering and research design methodologies appropriate to the development/test/production environments. Provides specific input to the component system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, system reuses, use of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS)/Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS), and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual systems components with particular emphasis on complex networking topics. Should be familiar with Agile processes and structures and able to work on a software development team.

The Cloud Engineer 2 (CE2) will contribute to the customers efforts by preparing existing and future products to better utilize cloud technologies. The CE2 will contribute to AWS buildout to begin in the future.

Required Skills:

• Experience with Apache Parquet

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• Perform requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
• Modify software and algorithms designed for traditional environments to operate in cloud environments.
• Provide support to platforms and services based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other commercial cloud hosting environments.
• Support the transition of operational systems and applications from traditional platforms to cloud environments.
• Support cloud-related data management tools and OpenSource (NoSQL) products such as Hbase, CloudBase/Accumulo, and Big Table.
• Convert existing algorithms or develop new algorithms to utilize Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, and Pig.
• Support operational systems utilizing the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
• Support the deployment of operational systems and applications in a cloud environment.
• Conduct scalability assessments of Cloud-related algorithms, applications, and systems to identify performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement.

Clearance Required:

• TS/SCI with Polygraph

Minimum Education:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.

Certification Requirement:

• AWS Certification is strongly desired.

Minimum Years of Experience:

• Six (6) years of experience in software development/engineering in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Four (4) years of experience in software development on systems utilizing cloud-related technologies.
• Four (4) years of additional software development experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.