Cloud Software Engineer (Big Data)

Quick Facts

• Role: Cloud Software Engineer (Big Data)
• Salary range: $230,000–$257,000/year
• Clearance: Active TS/SCI with a polygraph required

Description

Develop, maintain, and enhance complex Big-Data cloud systems based on documented requirements. Contribute to back-end processing, analyzing, and indexing while applying cloud computing expertise (Hadoop ecosystem), distributed computing, information retrieval, and object-oriented design. Review, test, and debug components, and provide input into system design trade-offs including COTS/GOTS reuse and requirements synthesis.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse Big-Data Cloud systems
• Contribute to back-end processing, analyzing, and indexing
• Implement Java applications and distributed computing / information retrieval solutions
• Review and test software components for adherence to design requirements; document test results
• Resolve software problem reports
• Use appropriate software development and design methodologies
• Provide system design input: hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, COTS/GOTS decisions, and requirements analysis/synthesis

Requirements

• 12 years software engineering experience on programs/contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline; 4 years must be in programs utilizing Big-Data cloud technologies and/or distributed computing
• Cloud software engineering experience may substitute for the bachelor’s degree (4 years)
• Master’s degree may substitute for 2 years of experience
• Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer certification may substitute for 1 year of cloud experience
• Experience with AWS and DevOps
• Two (2) years cloud and/or distributed computing information retrieval (IR)
• One (1) year implementing code interacting with Cloud Big Table
• One (1) year implementing code interacting with Cloud Distributed File System
• One (1) year implementing complex MapReduce analytics
• One (1) year implementing code interacting with Cloud Distributed Coordination Frameworks
• One (1) year architecting cloud computing solutions
• One (1) year debugging problems with cloud-based distributed computing frameworks
• One (1) year managing multi-node cloud-based installations
• Computer network operations experience (utility computing, network management, virtualization such as VMware/VirtualBox)
• Multi-node management/installation experience using Python, CFEngine, Bash, Ruby, or related technologies
• Information Assurance experience securing cloud/distributed applications (e.g., firewalls, PKI, server authentication, corporate authentication services)
• Object-oriented design and programming; Java in an IDE (e.g., Eclipse); Maven; RESTful web services
• Cloud/distributed technologies including one or more of: YARN, J2EE, MapReduce, Zookeeper, HDFS, HBase, JMS, concurrent programming
• Information retrieval technologies including one or more of: Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, MongoDB (plus HDFS/HBase as listed)
• Ingesting/parsing/analyzing disparate data formats: XML, JSON, CSV, binary formats, sequence/map files, Avro
• Aspect-oriented design and development
• Debugging/profiling cloud/distributed installations including JVM memory management and Java application profiling
• UNIX/Linux experience (including CentOS)
• Active TS/SCI with a polygraph

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package (see benefits tab for an overview).