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Software Engineer

Rapid Cycle Solutions LLC (RCS) is an innovative small business providing IT and management consulting services to the U.S. Federal Government and commercial clients. We have unique strengths in complex, cross-organizational solution analysis, design, development, implementation, and change management supporting enterprise requirements. Our team of professionals has deep consulting backgrounds supporting the unique needs of our clients. Our team members have proven experience leading strategic initiatives within the civilian Government agencies.

RCS is seeking aSoftware Engineerto provide technical support with expertise in data engineering, data management, systems engineering, and software engineering to support the data platform.

This position requires the candidate to work onsite in McLean, VA. Relocation assistance is not available.

What you will do:

• Sustain and enhance, as well as modernize with direction, the 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).

• 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.

• Use project management systems, such as GIT, JIRA, and Confluence, to document and track requirements.

• In making their requirements determination, should 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.

• Integrating and transitioning new technologies in coordination, and new capabilities that are accessible to a broader user base across the Mission Partners.

  Required Qualifications/Education:

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph

• UI and backend developer skills.

• System hardware and software troubleshooting.

• Information Technology architectures (i.e., servers, storage, and virtualization).

• Data analytics tools SPLUNK and ELK.

• System and enterprise level health and status monitoring.

• Planning and coordinating the system testing, integration, deployment, installation, validation, troubleshooting and analysis across networks and systems of collection or processing systems or equipment.

• Monitoring and adjusting collection or processing systems or equipment.

• Embedding automation best-practices to reduce technical debt.

• Programming languages such as PowerShell, Python, Node.js, R, SQL, and Ansible.

• One or more cloud and virtualization providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or VMWare).

• App development (either or all of the following: front end dev, back-end dev).

• Front-end development using React, Angular, Vue or similar.

• Back-end development using Node.js, SpringBoot or similar.

• Relational database development using PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle or similar.

• Building and maintaining cloud infrastructure using AWS, Azure or similar.

  Nice to Have Qualifications:

• Enterprise Control Language (ECL) and the Lexis-Nexis High Performance Cluster Computing (HPCC) platform.

• Performing All-Source data analysis to perform analytic support.

• Developing custom algorithms to support analytic requirements against massive data stores support.

• Supporting and performing technical analysis support using massive data processing systems.

• Writing cables.

• 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.

• Deploying web applications to a cloud managed environment to include DevOps and security configuration management.

• Developing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, and VPC.

• Planning, coordinating, and executing the required activities to support documentation to meet the 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.

  RCS is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities as an applicant, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify

All RCS work locations are drug-free workplaces.