Software Engineer - McLean, United States - The DarkStar Group

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Software Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in McLean, VA.

Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community.

We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013.

We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE ROLE The Sponsor has a requirement for software engineering in support of data acquisition, exploitation, engineering, and management tasks.

Lines of effort shall include direct operational support by facilitating data gathering in highly technical situations and participating in data exchanges with internal and external subject matter experts (SMEs).

These include complex in-person data engineering and data science tasks with minimal or no access to online reference materials, providing engineering design and implementation of data triage capabilities, and providing technical expertise to support the development of the Sponsor's overarching data acquisition and exploitation strategy.

Priorities will be determined by the Sponsor in close consultation with the Contractor project manager. Required Skills * Experience with developing infrastructure as code (HashiCorp Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS Cloud Formation)

• Experience with automated virtual machine builds (HashiCorp Packer)
• Experience with AWS EC2, S3 (to include bucket policy creation), VPC APIs
• Experience with Puppet
• Experience with Salt, Chef, or other configuration management
• Experience with Docker
• Demonstrated understanding of networking fundamentals, VPNs, automated use of various cloud vendor's virtual private server as might be used in the construction of runtime defined network connectivity.
• Experience developing automated provisioning of Linux operating systems with security hardening.
• Experience with various hardware profiles to include multiple makes of laptop, desktop computers.
• Experience mirroring Linux operating system installers and their corresponding package repositories.
• Demonstrated experience as a full stack developer, including frontend and backend development with technology stacks such as SpringBoot, Django, Flask, Angular, jQuery, or React.
• Demonstrated experience with backend database and search systems such as Elasticsearch, JanusGraph, DataStax Graph, PostgreSQL, Mysql/MariaDB, SQLite.
• Demonstrated experience with Agile practices and methodologies
• Demonstrated experience using programming languages such as Java, Python, Shell Scripting (bash), Javascript.
• Demonstrated experience using software engineering utilities such as Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, git, and Docker.
• Demonstrated experience in the software development lifecycle, and delivering within DevOps toolsets.
• Demonstrated experience with development in AWS, on-prem and standalone environments.
• Demonstrated experience with development leveraging cloud data services (such as S3, RDS, SNS, SQS). About The DarkStar Group Our Company The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you.

Our Benefits The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:
* very strong salaries;

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;

* the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;

• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;

* a generously-funded HSA;
* an 8% 401(k) contribution; * 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
* the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
* a generous training budget;
* $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
* business development / growth incentives; and
* top notch company swag.

We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.