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, VA. Below 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.  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

Primary responsibilities:

• 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

Additional general responsibilities:

• 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 security—anyone whose job it is to advance America’s strategic position. The size of the challenge we face demands new skills, new backgrounds, and new thinking. That’s what we’re here to deliver. And when you work shoulder to shoulder with brilliant people tackling the most high-stakes challenges, it’s invigorating. Our culture is built on collabora