Cloud Software Engineer 2
Capabilities
- Shall have at least five (5) years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
- Shall have at least four(4) years of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++
- Shall have demonstrated ability to work with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Acumulo, Big Table, etc.
- Shall have demonstrated work experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.
- Shall have demonstrated work experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
- Shall have demonstrated work experience with Serialization such as JSON and/or BSON
- Shall have demonstrated work experience developing Restful services
- Shall have at least three (3) years of experience developing software for UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.
- Shall have demonstrated work experience in the requirements analysis and design of at least one Object Oriented system.
- Shall have demonstrated work experience developing solutions integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products.
- Shall have at least three (3) years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.
- Shall have demonstrated technical writing skills and shall have generated technical documents in support of a software development project.
- In addition, the candidate will have demonstrated experience, work or college level courses, in at least two (2) of the desired characteristics.
Required Qualifications
- TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field is highly desired which will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.
- A Master's degree in a Technical Field will be considered equivalent to four (4) years of experience.
- A degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar degree will be considered as a technical field.
- Shall possess the Hadoop/Cloud Developer Certification.
Required Technical Skills
- Cloud Expertise: Deep experience in AWS Cloud Architecture, SDKs, APIs, and cloud services integration
- AI/ML Integration: Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks
- IaC & DevOps: Hands-on with CloudFormation or Terraform, and modern CI/CD pipelines
- Programming Proficiency: Strong in Java for distributed systems with a solid grasp of networking, multi-threading, and concurrency
- Containers & Orchestration: Knowledge of Kubernetes and microservices architecture
- Security-Minded: Working knowledge of cloud security principles and compliance best practices
- Scripting & Systems: Competent in Linux environments with scripting skills in Python, Ruby, Perl, or similar
Shall have demonstrated technical writing skills and shall have generated technical documents in support of a software development project. In addition, the candidate will have demonstrated experience, work or college level courses, in at least two (2) of the desired characteristics :
- Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
- Understanding of Big-Data Cloud Scalability (Amazon, Google, Facebook)
- Experience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques, and algorithms.
- Experience with taxonomy construction for analytic disciplines, knowledge areas and skills.
- Experience developing and deploying: data driven analytics; event driven analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
- Experience with linguistics (grammar, morphology, concepts).
- Experience developing and deploying analytics that discover and exploit social networks.
- Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, data element dictionaries, software application program interfaces and other technical specifications.
- Experience developing and deploying analytics within a heterogeneous schema environment.
Required Certifications
Must have, or be willing to obtain prior to start, one of the following Cloud Developer Certifications:
- AWS Certified Developer-Associate
- AWS Certified Machine Learning-Associate
- AWS Certified Machine Learning-Specialty
- AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Desired Technical Skills
- Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design and development
- Proficiency in using AWS SDKs and APIs
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
- Skilled in Continuous Integration, Deployment, Testing and Monitoring practices
- Knowledge and skill in implementing and using observability tools (e.g. Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
- Java programming for distributed systems, with experience in networking and multi-threading
- Agile development experience with source code management practices and tools
- Well-grounded in Linux fundamentals and knowledge in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
- Familiarity with microservices software development techniques and container-orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of security and compliance best practices
Skills
- Agentic AI
- Agile
- AI
- Analytics
- API
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Security
- CloudFormation
- C++
- DevOps
- Distributed Systems
- Elasticsearch
- Event Driven Architecture
- Hadoop
- HBase
- Hive
- Infrastructure as Code
- Java
- JSON
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- LLM
- Machine Learning
- Microservices
- Networking
- NoSQL
- Observability
- OpenSearch
- Perl
- Python
- RAG
- REST
- Ruby
- Technical Writing
- Terraform
- TypeScript
- Unix
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