DevOps Engineer TSSCI Poly

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer with a TS/SCI Poly 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 $25000 referral program.

THE PROJECT

The DarkStar Groups team uses AI/ML approaches (including NLP) to speed the analysis of massive amounts of aging data to determine what can and cannot be declassified and the resulting redaction of portions of data items. This effort is critical to protecting our exponentiallygrowing classified data sets and to responding to an increased number of FOIA requests. The team consists of Data Scientists ML experts Software Engineers Data Analysts and Systems Integrators working very closely with groups of customer Analysts.

Work on this program takes place in the Herndon VA area (we cannot support remote work) and requires a TS/SCI Polygraph clearance (acceptable to this customer).

THE ROLE

• This position will focus on creating and maintaining containers as well as enabling container deployments and implementations of serverless architectures within AWS. Additionally we need our DevOps Engineer to be versatile and be enthusiastic to take on new problems. We believe that in addition to hiring great talent a diversity of perspectives ideas and cultures leads to the creation of better products.
• The candidate must have detailed experience with AWS and all of its resources (or least its main ones EC2 S3 cloud formation stacks and RDS) as well as very familiar with Cloud formation scripts to create and maintain AWS resources. The candidate must also have experience with programming in an any Programming language preferably in Ruby Python javascipt Groovy or NodeJS. The candidate must have experience with using the AWS CDK in any of its supported languages: Ruby Python Java NodeJS etc. Experience using MesosMarathon container orchestration is highly desired.
• Java C# experience would be nice but it is not mandatory. However this experience will be vital in helping the development teams utilize AWS correctly.
• This person must be willing to help in all cases as well as be familiar with architectural best practices. He/She will have experience with Jenkins and building Jenkins Pipelines using Groovy Python and bash shell scripts.
• The engineer must have extensive experience working with this Customer.

Required Skills

• Object Oriented Programming experience
• Experience with AWS (e.g. CloudFormation EC2 Lambda DynamoDB and ElasticSearch)
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. RDS Oracle Postgres) MySQL
• Experience in continuous integration technology (e.g. Jenkins GitLab/GitHub)
• Experience with interacting in a Linux environment (ex Bash scripting)
• Experience with Jenkins and creating Jenkins Pipelines while having and understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices
• BS/BA in Computer Science OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with Java JavaScript Python Ruby Groovy or bash shell scripting
• Requires expert or mastery level knowledge of work area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• May have deep knowledge of project management. Advanced knowledge of related disciplines within work area and ability to identify links and potential impact on projects programs or systems.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Experience with application platforms such as Spring Boot or Angular
• Experience with log analytics tools such as Splunk or ElasticSearch
• Experience working with containers using Docker or Podman
• Experience with container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and Mesos
• Experience in communicating with users technical teams and senior management
• Comfortable working in a fastpaced environment
• Experience with Microservices
• Experience with front end development using Angular 10
• Comfortable managing competing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios
• Familiarity with Source code management and integration (ex GitHub/GitLab)
• Experience in an Agile environment (JIRA Confluence)

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. Were one of the Inc. 5000 fastestgrowing 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 youll find in the IC and salaries so strong that theyll likely surprise you.

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100 companypaid medical dental and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you dont need medical/dental/vision;
• 100 companypaid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generouslyfunded 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;
• $25000 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 $25000 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