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 Reston, 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 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

• The Contractor shall coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements.
• The Contractor shall apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously deliver high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.
• The Contractor shall ensure all application security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity to maintain security accreditation.
• The Contractor shall support data engineering efforts to analyze large data sets to derive data relationships.
• The Contractor shall maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot various codebases deployed in a multi-cloud environment.
• The Contractor shall maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, hardware and networks.
• The Contractor shall design, develop or maintain SQL-based databases.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience working with ElasticSearch.
• Demonstrated experience using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.
• Demonstrated experience in platform and application automated deployment.
• 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
• Demonstrated experience implementing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment.
• Demonstrated experience incorporating automated software quality checks, security scanning, infrastructure-as-code, and other modern DevSecOps tools and practices.
• Demonstrated experience working within cloud computing environments, Linux and Unix-based operating systems, and using ElasticSearch and Kibana.
• Demonstrated experience using requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing software, hardware and networks.
• Demonstrated experience installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Demonstrated experience monitoring system performance and troubleshooting.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience working with big data processing and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, ElasticSearch, MapReduce, and HBase.
• Demonstrated experience with Apache NiFi.
• Demonstrated experience with the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes.
• Demonstrated experience managing and mitigating IT security vulnerabilities using Plans of Actions and Milestones (POAMs).
• Demonstrated experience applying FISMA security controls.
• Demonstrated experience documenting and communicating technical and non-technical mission requirements for all audiences.
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with other technical teams across multiple organizational boundaries.

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.