Cloud Software Engineer, Level 2

Avalore

Maryland

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health care plan

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Training & development

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Avalore is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer to develop, maintain, and enhance large-scale Big-Data cloud systems. You will contribute to back-end processing, indexing, and information retrieval to support scalable analytics.

Active TS/SCI clearance is required for consideration. You will work with Java, MapReduce analytics, and distributed coordination frameworks on cloud platforms, primarily in a Maryland on-site environment with a strong emphasis on documentation and process improvements.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline is required.
Four years of cloud software engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Master’s degree may substitute for two years of experience.
Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer certification may substitute for one year of Cloud experience.

Responsibilities

Provide in-depth knowledge of Information Retrieval; assisting the software development team in designing, developing and testing Cloud Information Retrieval.
Implement complex workflows that manage Cloud MapReduce analytics.
Implement code that interacts with Cloud Distributed Coordination Frameworks.
Oversee one or more software development tasks and ensures the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process.
Make recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.

Skills

Cloud computing

Big Data

Java

Distributed systems

Information retrieval

MapReduce

JVM tuning

Shell scripting

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Four years of cloud software engineering experience in lieu of degree

Master's degree substitution for two years of experience

Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer

Tools

Cloudera Hadoop

Hadoop ecosystem

Maven

RESTful services

Jenkins

Job description

Avalore is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer. The Cloud Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse Big-Data Cloud systems based upon documented requirements. Directly contributes to all stages of back-end processing, analyzing, and indexing. Provides expertise in Cloud Computing, Hadoop Eco-System including implementing Java applications, Distributed Computing, Information Retrieval (IR), and Object Oriented Design. Works individually or as part of a team. Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Resolves software problem reports. Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment. Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.

Provide in-depth knowledge of Information Retrieval; assisting the software development team in designing, developing and testing Cloud Information Retrieval
Implement complex workflows that manage Cloud MapReduce analytics
Implement code that interacts with Cloud Distributed Coordination Frameworks
Oversee one or more software development tasks and ensures the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
Make recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards

Eight (8) years’ experience software engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required; two (2) years of which must be in programs utilizing Big-Data Cloud technologies and/or Distributed Computing.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
- Four (4) years of cloud software engineering experience on projects with similar Big-Data systems may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
- Master in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university may be substituted for two (2) years of experience.
- Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer certification may be substituted for one (1) year of Cloud experience.
Clearance: Active TS/SCI with an appropriate current polygraph is required to be considered for this role; Ability to receive privileged access rights.
The following Cloud related experiences are required:
- Two (2) years of Cloud and Distributed Computing Information Retrieval (IR).
- One (1) year of experience with implementing code that interacts with implementation of Cloud Big Table.
- One (1) year of experience with implementing code that interacts with implementation of Cloud Distributed File System.
- One (1) year of experience with implementing complex MapReduce analytics.
- One (1) year of experience with implementing code that interacts with Cloud Distributed Coordination Frameworks.
- Three (3) years experience in Utility Computing, Network Management, Virtualization (VMWare or VirtualBox), Cloud Computing 2. Multi Node Management and Installation: Management and installation of Cloud and Distributed Computing on multiple nodes, Python, CFEngine, Bash, Ruby or related technologies.
- Three (3) years experience in
  - Securing Cloud Based and Distributed applications through industry standard techniques such as Firewalls, PKI Certificate and Server Authentication with experience in Corporate authentication service(s) 1. Object Oriented Design and Programming, Java, Eclipse or similar development environment, MAVEN, RESTful web services.
  - Cloud and Distributed Computing Technologies: at least one or a combination of several of the following areas - YARN, J2EE, MapReduce, Zookeeper, HDFS, HBase , JMS, Concurrent Programming, MultiNode implementation/installation and other applicable technologies.
  - Cloud and Distributed Computing Information Retrieval: at least one or a combination of several of the following areas - HDFS, HBASE, Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, MongoDB
  - Ingesting, Parsing and Analysis of Disparate Data-sources and formats: XML, JSON, CSV, Binary Formats, Sequence or Map Files, Avro and related technologies
  - Aspect Oriented Design and Development
  - Debugging and Profiling Cloud and Distributed Installations: Java Virtual Machine (JVM) memory management, Profiling Java Applications
- Three (3) years experience in:
  - At least one SIGINT collection discipline areas (FORNSAT, CABLE, Terrestrial/Microwave, Overhead, and ELINT)
  - Geolocation, emitter identification, and signal applications.
  - Joint program collection platforms and dataflow architectures; signals characterization analysis
- Three (3) years experience in:
  - 1. CentOS, Linux/RedHat, 2. Configuration management tools such as Subversion, ClearQuest, or Razor