Systems and Information Development Modernization Support Engineer (TS/SCI + Poly)
Apply NowCompany: The DarkStar Group, LLC
Location: Herndon, VA 20171
Description:
Description
The DarkStar Group is seeking a Systems and Information Development Modernization Support Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Herndon, 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 provides highly-technical centralized Information Technology systems data that enables and transforms Cyber, IT, and Insight Operations through a comprehensive, AI-driven ecosystem, ensuring partners stay ahead of emerging threats and optimize resources for data-driven success. The sponsor's solutions include advanced threat detection, real-time monitoring, automation, predictive analytics, and compliance strategies, empowering partners to outpace competitors, improve performance, and adapt in an evolving digital landscape. The Sponsor requires specialized support in systems development modernization of the Information Technology systems data ecosystem. The scope of the work includes Program/Project Management, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Architect/Engineering, and Cloud Engineering.
THE ROLE
Required Skills
Desired Skills (Optional)
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:
** 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.
The DarkStar Group is seeking a Systems and Information Development Modernization Support Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Herndon, 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 provides highly-technical centralized Information Technology systems data that enables and transforms Cyber, IT, and Insight Operations through a comprehensive, AI-driven ecosystem, ensuring partners stay ahead of emerging threats and optimize resources for data-driven success. The sponsor's solutions include advanced threat detection, real-time monitoring, automation, predictive analytics, and compliance strategies, empowering partners to outpace competitors, improve performance, and adapt in an evolving digital landscape. The Sponsor requires specialized support in systems development modernization of the Information Technology systems data ecosystem. The scope of the work includes Program/Project Management, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Architect/Engineering, and Cloud Engineering.
THE ROLE
- The Contractor Team shall, with Sponsor oversight, support managing the sponsor's technical program, scope, schedule, budget, risks, and communication
- The Contractor Team shall work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions, including innovation efforts for modernization and evolution of core infrastructure, platform, and data lake house.
- The Contractor Team shall create customer-facing dashboard presentations and maintain system requirements, development process documentation, and monitor report generation and delivery.
- The Contractor Team shall provide recommendations for cybersecurity and IT operations enhancements, and identify solutions and tools for an efficient, streamlined, scalable approach while maintaining high-quality service.
- The Contractor Team shall collaborate with in-house development teams to; construct and implement feature enhancements to sponsor Analytic platform with a UI/UX mindset; integrate external systems with sponsor platform; and develop, implement, and maintain a data lake house against sponsor requirements.
- The Contractor Team shall integrate sponsor datasets with corporate machine learning tooling.
- The Contractor Team shall develop, implement, and maintain solutions that allow Sponsor platform users to quickly understand and gain value against massive data sets
Required Skills
- Demonstrated experience with cybersecurity, IT systems, and A&A processes.
- Demonstrated experience with facilitation across multi-contractor and staff teams,
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with project teams or multiple entities to define project requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Demonstrated experience monitoring project progress, identifying roadblocks, and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines for data ingestion, processing, and transformation.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with data scientists and analysts to ensure data quality and accessibility.
- Demonstrated experience building and implementing data governance policies and procedures for data integrity and security.
- Demonstrated experience with design, implementation, and management of secure and scalable cloud infrastructure solutions.
- Demonstrated experience with implementation and management of infrastructure-as-code solutions and collaboration with development teams.
- Demonstrated experience with implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automation of infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and system monitoring.
- Demonstrated experience in envisioning and delivering solutions to business problems leveraging machine learning techniques, to include: model training and development; full lifecycle model management.
- Demonstrated experience in technical architecture expertise, including systems integration and technical leadership.
- Demonstrated experience with proficiency in complex multi-network and security enclave environments.
Desired Skills (Optional)
- Demonstrated experience championing SecDevOps best practices for collaboration, efficiency, and quality.
- Demonstrated experience deploying and managing solutions utilizing retrieval augmented generation techniques.
- Demonstrated experience with big data processing and analysis tools such as Splunk, SOAR, NiFi, or Cribl.
- Demonstrated experience with data visualization and data lake house technologies.
- Demonstrated experience in AWS environment networking, security, logging, administration, and provisioning.
- Demonstrated experience with Sponsor's accreditation and security, including security controls, system hardening, and compliance requirements.
- Demonstrated experience with data transfer tools such as NiFi or Cribl.
- Demonstrated experience creating ad-hoc scripts in Python and JSON.
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting network connections or scanning.
- Demonstrated experience with JIRA or another ticketing system for task tracking.
- Demonstrated experience or familiarity with DevOps lifecycle and ability to coordinate requirements with development teams.
- Demonstrated experience in Agile and Scrum methodologies for software development.
- Demonstrated experience with technical proficiency in Linux system administration and DevOps tools.
- Demonstrated experience in software engineering, cloud computing, data management, and system integration
- Demonstrated experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and deploying models in cloud environments (SageMaker)
- Demonstrated experience with data engineering and feature engineering for big data processing and machine learning algorithms.
- Demonstrated experience with understanding cloud platforms (AWS, OCI, Azure, or GCP) and best practices for cloud-based services and security.
- Demonstrated experience with Sponsor's technology, mission, and business systems, as well as architectural vision.
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
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.