Cloud Engineer - Herndon, United States - The DarkStar Group

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Cloud Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Herndon, 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 PROJECT The Sponsor requires support for the development and maintenance of custom built information systems deployed in various configurations and locations.

Due to the involvement of high-level stakeholders, the Sponsor requires a flexible high performance team that can adapt to world events and can provide new features and support previously deployed systems.

The Sponsor's platform is an end-to-end analytic solution used to search, discover, and visualize disparate information. It is deployed to help analysts and data scientists make sense of their data holdings. It is built upon a series of open source tools, packages, and components.

The individual systems may contain massive amounts of disparate data with volumes ranging in the 10s to 100s of Terabytes (TB) each.

THE ROLE * Develop applications in the Linux operating system.

• Perform data integration work to extract, transform and load (ETL) data in a variety of formats into a standardized model that will be provided and can be altered as mission requirements evolve.
• Write custom code and integrate open source tools into the platform to exploit and visualize data.
• Pull relationships out of data, perform entity extraction, correlate entities together, and create custom visualizations based on the data in the system.
• Use an Agile Scrum for software development.
• Identify the appropriate sprint cycle timeframe that is approved by the Sponsor and propose a work tracking system used to track all tasks and user stories allowing for flexibility both internal and external to the Sponsor.
• Execute an Agile development scrum led by contractor project manager or Agile Scrum Master on a recurring basis which they will define.
• Move applications from one physical environment to another in a DevOps environment. Comply with all appropriate security regulations and policies.
• Transfer the application to an installation team that will deploy the system, once systems are developed.
• Maintain system installation scripts and packages currently written for Ansible.
• Support remote troubleshooting and shall have a 'one team' approach to systems and deployments.
• Facilitate search and discovery operations and related data management using ElasticSearch and other open source database or repositories.
• Assess candidate systems, applications and open source modules as potential elements for inclusion into the Sponsor's system.
• Identify and inform the Sponsor with regards to key interdependencies, roadblocks, issues, and risks with modifying existing systems.
• Develop, integrate, and implement a plan to proactively address issues identified with existing systems in a timely manner.
• Learn the current software code baseline to enable development on those systems.
• Assist the Sponsor to develop and document requirements for the Sponsor system.
• Maintain and track requirements, issues, and software configuration items in an appropriate configuration management repository.
• With Sponsor's oversight, develop new systems to satisfy Sponsor-approved requirements.
• Develop, document, and execute test scenarios, plans and procedures for acceptance testing.
• Ensure the software interfaces properly with related systems and includes configuring and installing appropriate software.
• Ensure performance testing and repeatable automated regression testing is completed for each software release as part of Continuous Integration best practices.
• Assist the Sponsor to maintain and implement a strategy for appropriately handling security-sensitive applications.
• Address applicable system user activity security related auditing requirements.
• Comply with the Sponsor's Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process.
• Provide for the appropriate documentation required for the Sponsor's A&A process. The Sponsor will approve these packages prior to providing to accreditation authority.

Required Skills * Demonstrated experience developing software using Go Language (Google's Open Source programming language).

• Demonstrated experience using the following technologies and software development areas:
• ElasticSearch, data integration, and search and discovery operations
• CentOS and Linux
• JavaScript and UI development
• Open-source programming packages
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing API(s).
• Demonstrated experience authoring and integrating Web Services across systems.
• Demonstrated experience using Entity Resolution technologies and concepts.
• Demonstrated experience pulling together multiple open source modules to satisfy a system requirement.
• Demonstrated experience securely facilitating search and discovery within large systems with "row-level" or "cell-level" security.
• Demonstrated experience developing Web Applications.
• Demonstrated experience developing, documenting, defining, and maintaining system requirements.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience using Agile methodologies and related version control software packages.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience performing data migrations or related O&M activities.
• Demonstrated experience in automated system regression testing and integration of regression tests into software build and deployment activities.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience developing in a Linux O/S based environment.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in the full software development lifecycle. This includes development, deployment, testing, and monitoring.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience manipulating data and in ETL.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience leading the implementation of various relational databases or document repository-based technologies. This includes development, deployment, testing, and monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience using the Vue Framework for User Interface development.
• The Contractor team, as a whole, shall have expertise in the following technologies to include, but not limited to:
• Tesseract
• Python
• CentOS
• Extraction, Transformation, Loading (ETL)
• ElasticSearch
• JavaScript
• MySQL (or Oracle)
• YAML scripting
• SQL
• SOLR/Lucene
• Other databases - (e.g.; Amazon RDS, MongoDB, etc.)
• Google's Go language
• Open source packages
• Active directory and LDAP

Desired Skills (Optional) * Demonstrated experience using ETL of disparate datasets.

• Demonstrated experience with large-scale data analytics efforts in the Sponsor organization or with Sponsor partner organizations.
• Demonstrated experience performing large scale data migrations for legacy systems.
• Demonstrated experience with the Information Security, Assessment & Accreditation process with the Sponsor.
• Demonstrated experience using open source relational data base technologies such as MySQL.
• Demonstrated on-the-job, professional software development experience, preferably in the Sponsor's development environment. 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.