Cloud Developer (TS/SCI + Poly)

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Company: The DarkStar Group, LLC

Location: Reston, VA 20191

Description:

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 Reston, 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.

Required Skills
  • Demonstrated experience with Python.
  • Demonstrated experience with geo-spatial software and programming packages and data formats.
  • Demonstrated experience creating and managing AWS resources, including provisioning EC2 instances, writing and deploying Lambda functions, creating and writing to S3, and managing authorization appropriately across resources with IAM policies.
  • Demonstrated experience using GitHub.

Desired Skills (Optional)
  • Demonstrated experience deploying AWS applications with AWS's Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Ansible and Terraform are NOT a substitute for CDK.
  • Demonstrated experience building and deploying containerized applications.
  • Demonstrated experience building, programmatically working with and maintaining search engines such as ElasticSeach, Lucene, or AWS's OpenSearch.
  • Demonstrated experience creating, programmatically working with and maintaining SQL and NO-SQL databases.
  • Demonstrated experience with other non-AWS cloud services such as, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure.
  • Certification(s) o AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or SysOps Administrator.

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.

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