The Sponsor provides data-driven, business analysis to support senior organizational leaders and requires support specializing in cloud development of relevant processes, tools, and integrated systems to format, load, analyze, and display large-volume data streams, arriving in a variety of formats.

WORK REQUIREMENTS:

• The Contractor shall work with data scientists and data engineers to architect, operate, and document relevant cloud-on prem hybrid solutions to optimize relevant workflow components for advanced artificial intelligence applications.
• The Contractor shall lead work to optimize cloud-based computing technologies, such as leveraging pyspark, distributed computation, and model training/inference, and integrate solutions into relevant delivery mechanisms or partner systems.
• The Contractor shall build tools and scripts to monitor, troubleshoot, automate, and deploy AI models and outputs as part of a variety of existing business analytic platforms.
• The Contractor shall be directly responsible for solutions related to the Sponsor’s analytic work in these key areas: availability, latency, performance, efficiency, documentation, change management, monitoring, security, emergency response, and capacity planning.
• The Contractor shall apply, develop and deploy cloud microservices and integration of cloud resources with on prem high performance computation servers to support the Sponsor’s efforts.
• The Contractor shall create and use optimal solutions to store and host information.
• The Contractor shall create software pipelines to query databases of interest, combine and merge data sources, and analyze information.
• The Contractor shall use the Sponsor’s knowledge management, version control, coding standards, and delivery platforms.
• The Contractor shall champion and manage requirements, builds, upgrades, and fixes within multiple (dev, test, production) environments.
• The Contractor shall assist developers and data scientists with code deployments, particularly providing CI/CD configuration.
• The Contractor shall leverage available solutions to create automations that enable timely tipping and queuing.
• The Contractor shall optimize open-source software to accelerate mission solutions and minimize proprietary dependencies at the direction of the Sponsor.
• The Contractor shall use a microservice-based architecture and agile coding for engineering and development activities to support reliable network performance, modern resource management, and security processes.
• The Contractor shall develop analytical software packages, pipelines, and custom virtual environments for deployment in secure environments including standalone workstations, standalone compute clusters, secure cloud environments, and on-premises network infrastructure.

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with Python, Bash, and Terraform.
• Demonstrated experience Anaconda for development purposes.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with software such as source control (Git/GitHub), continuous build/delivery (Jenkins), issue management (Jira), and documentation/collaboration (Confluence).
• Demonstrated experience with automated testing and deployment of infrastructure or configurations.
• Demonstrated experience in the administration, provisioning, and use of cloud technologies (i.e. AWS) particularly with application of data science approaches in the cloud.
• Demonstrated experience deploying and tuning Apache NiFi or other ETL workflows.
• Demonstrated experience hosting and managing Structured Query Language (SQL) databases within cloud based relational databases.
• Demonstrated experience optimizing connectivity between cloud-based services and on prem high performance cloud compute servers.
• Demonstrated experience with DevSecOps solutions and tools.
• Demonstrated experience in the cyber security domain to include: governance and risk management, compliance, encryption, software development security, access control, network security or secure architecture, or security operations.
• Demonstrated experience preparing presentations and presenting to senior stakeholders.

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated experience supporting data scientists to create—through fine tuning, transfer learning—models for classification, prediction, generative AI, or other similar tasks.
• Demonstrated experience optimizing the deployment of AI models in the cloud.
• Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask.
• Demonstrated experience using Tableau to connect cloud serves to Tableau output visualizations.