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Cloud Software Engineer III

Black Eagle Defense
Annapolis, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 8/30/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/29/2026
Job Description

Cloud Software Engineer III

The Cloud Software Engineer III develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse Big-Data Cloud systems based upon documented requirements. Directly contributes to all stages of back-end processing, analyzing, and indexing. Provides expertise in Cloud Computing, Hadoop Eco-System including implementing Java applications, Distributed Computing, Information Retrieval (IR), and Object Oriented Design. Works individually or as part of a team. Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Resolves software problem reports. Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment. Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.

Required Skills

Twelve (12) years experience software engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required; four (4) years of which must be in programs utilizing Big-Data cloud technologies and/or Distributed Computing. Four (4) years of cloud software engineering experience on projects with similar Big-Data systems may be substituted for a bachelors degree. Master in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university may be substituted for two (2) years of experience. Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer certification may be substituted for one (1) year of Cloud experience.

The following Cloud related experiences are required:

Two (2) years of Cloud and/or Distributed Computing Information Retrieval (IR).

One (1) year of experience with implementing code that interacts with implementation of Cloud Big Table.

One (1) year of experience with implementing code that interacts with implementation of Cloud Distributed File System.

One (1) year of experience with implementing complex MapReduce analytics.

One (1) year of experience with implementing code that interacts with Cloud Distributed Coordination Frameworks.

One (1) year of experience in architecting Cloud Computing solutions

One (1) year of experience in debugging problems with Cloud based Distributed Computing Frameworks

One (1) year of experience in managing multi-node Cloud based installation

Experience in Computer Network Operations:

Utility Computing, Network Management, Virtualization (VMWare or VirtualBox), Cloud Computing

Multi Node Management and Installation: Management and installation of Cloud and Distributed Computing on multiple nodes, Python, CFEngine, Bash, Ruby or related technologies.

Experience in Information Assurance: Securing Cloud Based and Distributed applications through industry standard techniques such as Firewalls, PKI Certificate and Server Authentication with experience in Corporate authentication service(s)

Experience in Information Technology:

Object Oriented Design and Programming, Java, Eclipse or similar development environment, MAVEN, RESTful web services.

Cloud and Distributed Computing Technologies: at least one or a combination of several of the following areas - YARN, J2EE, MapReduce, Zookeeper, HDFS, HBase, JMS, Concurrent Programming, Multi-Node implementation/installation and other applicable technologies.

Cloud and Distributed Computing Information Retrieval: at least one or a combination of several of the following areas - HDFS, HBASE, Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, MongoDB

Ingesting, Parsing and Analysis of Disparate Data-sources and formats: XML, JSON, CSV, Binary Formats, Sequence or Map Files, Avro and related technologies

Aspect Oriented Design and Development

Debugging and Profiling Cloud and Distributed Installations: Java Virtual Machine (JVM) memory management, Profiling Java Applications

UNIX/LINUX, CentOS

Experience in SIGINT:

Experience with at least one SIGINT collection discipline areas (FORNSAT, CABLE, Terrestrial/Microwave, Overhead, and ELINT)

Geolocation, emitter identification, and signal applications.

Joint program collection platforms and dataflow architectures; signals characterization analysis

Experience with Other: 1. CentOS, Linux/RedHat, 2. Configuration management tools such as Subversion, ClearQuest, or Razor.

Additional Details

Front-End Web Development Languages:

Javascript (and eventually some Typescript)

React/JSX

Back-End Development Languages:

node.js/Javascript

Rust (for high-performance or secure portions)

Python

shell script

Micro-services architecture:

Kubernetes

Helm Charts

Micro-Services deployment patterns

Service-mesh

Multi-site applications

Load Balancing topologies

Cloud Migration

Tech-Stack Familiarity Architecture:

nifi

Testing frameworks (JEST)

Grafana

InfluxDb

Elasticsearch

Redis

mysql

Apache Superset

RabbitMQ/Kafka/Message Fabrics

Ansible/Salt

Terraform (for lane development)

Web-Sockets

JBLOCKS

Neo4j

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