Cloud Software Engineer (AWS Certification Required)

Visionist, Inc. • Columbia, MD

18h • Onsite

About The Position

Visionist has a fully FUNDED opportunity for a Cloud Software Engineer to join a critical mission supporting big data processing platforms. The analytics developed and deployed in these ecosystems are critical to ensuring that the data flowing through the agency can be leveraged by analysts to perform mission critical reporting and decision making. You will be working with the newest technology and methodologies for processing mass amounts of data and distilling them into actionable results. For over 14 years, Visionist, a 100% employee-owned company, has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. They embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps, playing a critical role in defending the nation’s cyber infrastructure and providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning. The company fosters a supportive culture with internal growth and promotion opportunities, and offers a family-like environment with regular happy hours, baseball games, and activity clubs.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Additional 2 years of experience may substitute degree)
• 6 years of experience in software development
• One of the following certifications: AWS Certified Developer --- Associate, AWS Certified Machine Learning --- Associate, AWS Certified Machine Learning --- Specialty, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Experience with Java, Docker, and Microservice Architecture
• Experience with streaming data frameworks (Flink, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Heron)
• Experience with Version Control (Git, SVN)
• Familiarity with agency data flow formats and standards
• Interest in working on a small expert team that communicates regularly with analysts and willingness to take on tasks, from requirements gathering and design, to deployment
• U.S citizenship required

Responsibilities

• Leverage Apache Flink to develop analytics to run on a new big data streaming analytic platform
• Support a critical mission system with hundreds of active users
• Work in a full stack environment while focusing on analytic development
• Support the rapid development and deployment of patches and updates to an existing system in a dynamic role

Benefits

• We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
• Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
• 4 weeks paid time off that is never “use or lose”, 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
• 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
• Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,160/year)
• Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 – use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
• Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
• Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees