Description
The DarkStar Group 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, 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 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.
THE ROLE

• 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 (Optional)

• 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.

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.