Software Engineer (TS/SCI + Poly)

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Software Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Tysons, 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.

THE PROJECT

• The Sponsor requires technical support with expertise in data engineering, systems architecture, software engineering, and project management for the systems used to collect, process, and exploit data used by the Sponsor, and the Sponsors Community, to support systems and advance the way those systems are tasked and used to identify leads and perform operations.
• The Sponsor developed and manages a program which leverages integrated discrete technologies to support massive data processing, storage, modeling and analytics over several thousand unique data sources, to perform threat identification and analysis, as well as support efforts to meet tactical and strategic mission goals for the Sponsor and Sponsor Community. Under the Sponsors Program are the components that comprise the 'core' data platform capability - the technologies and systems, data, data processing and modeling, and use of the data via data science and querying of the data corpus and model(s) to derive intelligence to advance the Sponsor's mission. The 'core' data platform capability serves as the backbone for other capabilities (e.g., web applications) managed by the Sponsor, to accelerate its operations.

THE ROLE

• The Contractor shall sustain and enhance, as well as modernize with Sponsor direction, the Sponsor's ecosystem of existing capabilities for ingesting and exploiting high-volumes of disparate datasets at near-real time, correlating with the historical holdings, and enabling querying via ad hoc and recurring jobs dependent on complex data model(s).
• The Contractor shall ensure the existing ecosystem of capabilities dependent on "core" data sets, data models, intermediate data models, data ingestion pipelines (Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)) and data governance are sustained at the same (or better) levels.
• The ecosystem of connected systems, capabilities, analytics, and workflows shall not have downtimes greater than eight (8) hours. Outages during core hours (0700 - 1600 hours) shall have immediate mitigation and resolution. Outages occurring during non-core hours (1600 - 0700 hours) shall require on call support. Outages during non-core hours shall require on call support response within two (2) hours of catastrophic events and immediate triage for non-catastrophic events during core hours.
• The Contractor shall use Sponsor project management systems, such as GIT, JIRA, and Confluence, to document and track requirements.
• In making their requirements determination, the Contractor shall consider the following:
• Responsiveness to ad hoc fluid operations requirements to create and deliver new and unique capabilities, data products, intermediate data models, assessments, and findings that can be derived from the data collection capability.
• Supporting efforts to advance the data platform and the ecosystems ability to improve and accelerate the Sponsor and Sponsor communities' ability to pursue mission(s) that can derive value from the data platform capability. To include innovating and implementing new data analytics, intermediate data models, algorithms, ETL, and methodologies (for data engineering, modeling, querying data).
• Integrating and transitioning new technologies in coordination with the Sponsor, and new capabilities that are accessible to a broader user base across the Sponsor and its Mission Partners.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience with UI and backend developer skills.
• Demonstrated experience with system hardware and software troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience with Information Technology architectures (i.e., servers, storage, and virtualization).
• Demonstrated experience with data analytics tools SPLUNK and ELK.
• Demonstrated experience with system and enterprise level health and status monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience planning and coordinating the system testing, integration, deployment, installation, validation, troubleshooting and analysis across networks and systems of collection or processing systems or equipment.
• Demonstrated experience monitoring and adjusting collection or processing systems or equipment.
• Demonstrated experience with embedding automation best-practices to reduce technical debt.
• Demonstrated experience using programming languages such as PowerShell, Python, Node.js, R, SQL, and Ansible.
• Demonstrated experience with one or more cloud and virtualization providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or VMWare).
• Demonstrated experience with app development (either or all of the following: front end dev, back-end dev).
• Demonstrated experience with front-end development using React, Angular, Vue or similar.
• Demonstrated experience with back-end development using Node.js, SpringBoot or similar.
• Demonstrated experience with relational database development using PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle or similar.
• Demonstrated experience with building and maintaining cloud infrastructure using AWS, Azure or similar.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience using Enterprise Control Language (ECL) and the Lexis-Nexis High Performance Cluster Computing (HPCC) platform.
• Demonstrated experience performing All-Source data analysis to perform analytic support to the Sponsor.
• Demonstrated experience developing custom algorithms to support analytic requirements against massive data stores supporting the Sponsor.
• Demonstrated experience directly supporting the Sponsor performing technical analysis support using massive data processing systems.
• Demonstrated experience writing cables.
• Demonstrated experience planning and coordinating program activities such as installation and upgrading of hardware and software, utilization of cloud services, programming, or systems design development, modification of IT networks, or implementation of Internet and intranet sites.
• Demonstrated experience deploying web applications to a cloud managed environment to include DevOps and security configuration management.
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, and VPC.
• Demonstrated experience planning, coordinating, and executing the required activities to support documentation to meet the Sponsor's data compliance requirements (e.g., legal, data policy)
• Degree(s)
  • Undergraduate degree in mathematics, computer science, engineering, or similar scientific or technical discipline.
• Graduate degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or another scientific or technical discipline.
• Degree or equivalent in CS, MIS, Economics, Physics, Genetics, or Engineering related field, especially Supercomputing-related.

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.