Senior Cloud Data Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph
Applied Insight
- Hanover, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Interact with various operating systems, applications, environments, and cloud computing platforms to create IT automation and orchestration activities
- Use open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project
- Use coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow
- Collaborate with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex technological infrastructure, security, or development problem
- Perform incremental testing actions on code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline execution and minimize errors encountered
- Work with cloud native services to implement event-driven architectures via Infrastructure as Code
- Embracing Emerging Technology: You will leverage AWS, Azure, and accompanying tools daily as you help build and evolve game-changing cloud-based environments.
- Well-rounded: You will need to bring in-depth experience across multiple technologies including scripting, development/test/QA tools, cloud, container, and orchestration tools, Linux and Windows operating systems, networking, security and automation.
- Motivated: You want to continually learn new things and work with new technologies.
- Agile: Able to work as part of small team working together to develop a solution for both commercial and government customers.
- Focused on Automation: Wherever possible, you look for ways to automate manual processes to increase efficiency, speed, and operability of tasks.
- At least 12 years of experience of IT platform implementation in a technical and analytical role
- 5+ years of experience of Data Lake/Hadoop platform implementation
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in implementation and performance tuning EMR/ Hadoop/Spark implementations
- Experience Apache Hadoop and the Hadoop ecosystem
- Experience with one or more relevant tools (Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Oozie, Hue, Zookeeper, HCatalog, Solr, Avro)
- Experience with one or more SQL-on-Hadoop technology (Hive, Impala, Spark SQL, Presto)
- Experience developing software code in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, etc)
- Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
- Hands on experience leading large-scale global data warehousing and analytics projects
- Ability to collaborate effectively across organizations
- Understanding of database and analytical technologies in the industry including MPP and NoSQL databases, Data Warehouse design, BI reporting and Dashboard development
- Demonstrated industry efficiency in the fields of database, data warehousing or data sciences
- Implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing, enterprise environments
- Customer facing skills to drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- BS in Computer Science, IT, IS, or equivalent area of technical study
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
- AWS experience preferred, but not mandatory
- AWS Solutions Architect, Developer, or SysOps Administrator Associate Certification
- Experience working with JSON or YAML to write Infrastructure as Code
- Familiarity with container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes
- Experience with development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins
- Experience performing software development in Windows or Linux operating system environments
- Multiple health insurance options which include a PPO plan with ZERO deductibles and an HSA plan.
- 401k Immediate Vesting. Company matches 100% of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 2% contributed.
- Fully paid long-term disability, short-term disability, and life insurance.
- Flexible Spending Account options.
- Generous paid time off that includes one bucket of leave to use how the employee sees fit; no separate holiday, sick, or vacation.
- Flexible work schedules with the ability to bank extra hours for additional time off.
- Government shutdown protection where employees don't have to use leave for up to 3 days out of the year for inclement weather or budget issues.
- Employee centric culture and a belief that we should empower those who are good at what they do and then give them the tools they need to achieve success and grow their career.
- A commitment to learning and growth and easy ways to achieve both including a training budget, education assistance, mentorship programs and collaborative learning sessions.
- A collaborative environment that fosters communication and an open door policy.