Cloud Engineer (TS/SCI + Poly)

Description

The DarkStar Group a GRVTY Company is seeking a Cloud Developer with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in McLean is an overview of the project as well as information on our company and our benefits.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. Weve been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. Weve grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work and weve 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 applies technical resources to accelerate the timely reliable and secure delivery of open source data information and insights. The Sponsor requires application development support to maintain and enhance an existing social media data exploitation platform. The Contractor will work within an existing team environment. Work will include developing enhancements to an existing service-based web application.

THE ROLE

• Design implement and optimize backend services in NodeJs and Typescript
• Develop and maintain ETL workflows to handle large-scale datasets
• Ensure performance scalability and reliability under high demand conditions
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced evolving environment

• Coordinate with multiple entities including mission partners to ensure tools meet defined requirements.
• Apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously deliver high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.
• Ensure all application security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity to maintain security accreditation.
• Support data engineering efforts to analyze large data sets to derive data relationships.
• Maintain upgrade and troubleshoot various codebases deployed in a multi-cloud environment.
• Maintain upgrade troubleshoot hardware and networks.
• Manage and mitigate IT security vulnerabilities and apply security controls.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience with the design implementation and optimization of backend services in NodeJs and Typescript.
• Demonstrated experience with strings in development and large-scale data processing
• Demonstrated experience building and optimizing ETL pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining ETL workflows to handle large-scale datasets.
• Demonstrated experience working in a fast paced fluid and dynamic environment working with cross functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience ensuring system performance scalability and reliability under high demand conditions.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience with Apache NiFi
• Demonstrated experience monitoring system performance and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience installing configuring testing and maintaining operating systems application software and system management tools.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining upgrading troubleshooting and managing software hardware and networks.
• Demonstrated experience working within cloud computing environments (AWS) Linux and Unix-based operating systems.
• Demonstrated experience in platform and application automated deployment.
• Demonstrated experience using AWS to include S3 EBS and EC2.
• Demonstrated experience using requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Demonstrated experience implementing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud deployment DevOps containerization web service and API management and computing optimization.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud database storage virtualization and network configurations.

Why Choose The DarkStar Group a GRVTY Company

The DarkStar Group a GRVTY Company started with a simple American idea: we do things not because they are easy but because they are hard. The DarkStar Group a GRVTY Company exists to answer challenges. We do it for customers in defense intelligence homeland securityanyone whose job it is to advance Americas strategic position. The size of the challenge we face demands new skills new backgrounds and new thinking. Thats what were here to deliver. And when you work shoulder to shoulder with brilliant people tackling the most high-stakes challenges its invigorating. Our culture is built on collaboration mission-focused innovation and a commitment to excellence where every challenge we answer opens the door to a new possibility.

The toughest national security challenges demand vision and ingenuity not just resources. We deliver mission and technical expertise to outpace our adversaries. Were purpose-built to tackle the most entrenched systemic national security issues around the world.

We partner with our customers to help them overcome challenges in every corner of technology and defenseincluding the ones still being explored. Our growing capabilities create complementary advantages giving on-the-ground operations the edge they need to succeed. We muster everything we have to answer every challenge presented every day of our lives.

At The DarkStar Group a GRVTY Company we believe that when our employees thrive our company thrives. Thats why we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your well-being growth and work-life balance.

• Robust health plan including medical dental and vision
• Health Savings Account with company contribution
• Annual Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401k with generous company match
• Training and Development Opportunities
• Award Programs
• Variety of Company Sponsored Events

The DarkStar Group A GRVTY Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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 and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days.

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