Software Engineer (Python/Cdk Focus) - Ts/Sci W/Poly

TS/SCI w/ FSP required

Software Engineer (Chantilly location)

The Sponsor is seeking to expand existing capabilities by augmenting its automated data collections development team with additional skilled developers capable of co-locating with end-users to rapidly develop and operate new techniques for data collection and transformation while operating within and contributing to corporate technical guidelines

Required Skills:

- Experience leveraging a background in programming, Software tools and packages, Operating systems, and networking to solve collection needs in cloud environments

- Python

- Cloud services (Lambda, S3, Batch, EC2, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, IAM, DynamoDB, containers)

- AWS CDK (No CloudFormation or Terraform as a substitute)

- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining secure web applications on the Sponsor’s network JWICS C2S network

- Demonstrated experience with the ability to reflect back an understanding of the mission need described and convey how a technical solution will deliver mission results.

- Demonstrated experience prioritizing work based on mission need.

- Demonstrated experience documenting and communicating technical and non-technical mission requirements for all audiences.

- Demonstrated experience working with other technical teams across multiple organizational boundaries.

- Demonstrated experience with assessing project requirements and making informed recommendations.

Desired Skills:

(U) Experience in System Administration

(U) Designing, developing, querying and maintaining ElasticSearch/AWS OpenSearch and related technologies

(U) Writing and tuning complex queries against structured and unstructured data sets using both SQL and ElasticSearch/OpenSearch languages

(U) Demonstrated experience with the ability to listen and transcribe from mission need to technical requirements for Sponsor consideration.

(U) Demonstrated experience with Linux shell scripting.

(U) Demonstrated experience building Docker containers and images.

(U) Demonstrated experience transforming data in various file formats into common formats, such as JSON, CSV, or XML.

(U) Demonstrated experience working with application developers to identify and implement infrastructure and deployment requirements.

(U) Focus on monitoring, troubleshooting, and automating deployments, and secondarily, additional strengths in managing IT security vulnerabilities and security controls

(U) Demonstrated experience with tools, such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, JADX, or APKtool.

(U) Demonstrated experience with multiple cloud providers.

(U) Demonstrated experience with other programming languages besides Python.

Requirements

Required Skills:

- Experience leveraging a background in programming, Software tools and packages, Operating systems, and networking to solve collection needs in cloud environments

- Python

- Cloud services (Lambda, S3, Batch, EC2, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, IAM, DynamoDB, containers)

- AWS CDK (No CloudFormation or Terraform as a substitute)

- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining secure web applications on the Sponsor’s network JWICS C2S network

- Demonstrated experience with the ability to reflect back an understanding of the mission need described and convey how a technical solution will deliver mission results.

- Demonstrated experience prioritizing work based on mission need.

- Demonstrated experience documenting and communicating technical and non-technical mission requirements for all audiences.

- Demonstrated experience working with other technical teams across multiple organizational boundaries.

- Demonstrated experience with assessing project requirements and making informed recommendations.

Benefits

• Vacation – 5 weeks of accrued paid vacation per year (i.e., 8.33 hours accrued per pay period worked)

• Holidays - Paid holidays published annually by the Office of Personnel Management, excluding Inauguration Day

• 100% paid for Health Benefits* (United Healthcare, Guardian Dental, VSP Vision, MetLife, Life and Disability Insurance and annual $1500 employer HSA contribution on qualified plans) *health benefits kick in the 1st of the month following your start date

• 6% 401k Contribution (3% paid out during each pay period, the additional 3% will be paid out as a lump sum in Q1 each year)

• Training Reimbursement – Approved training and education expenses will be reimbursed

• Travel Expenses – Approved travel expenses will be reimbursed *Note – From time to time, the company may change employee benefits.