Cloud Engineer

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.

Job Overview:  Available Immediately

Introduction

The Customer applies technical resources to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open source data, information, and insights. The Customer requires application development support to maintain and enhance an existing social media data exploitation platform. The Candidate will work within an existing team environment. Work will include developing enhancements to an existing service-based web application.

This position will:

• Design, implement, and optimize backend services in NodeJs and Typescript
• Develop and maintain ETL workflows to handle large-scale datasets
• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability under high demand conditions
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements.
• Apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously deliver high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.
• Ensure all application security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity to maintain security accreditation.
• Support data engineering efforts to analyze large data sets to derive data relationships.
• Maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot various codebases deployed in a multi-cloud environment.
• Maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, hardware and networks.
• Manage and mitigate IT security vulnerabilities and apply security controls.

Required skills and demonstrated experience:

• Demonstrated experience with the design, implementation, and optimization of backend services in NodeJs and Typescript.
• Demonstrated experience with strings in development and large-scale data processing
• Demonstrated experience building and optimizing ETL pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining ETL workflows to handle large-scale datasets.
• Demonstrated experience working in a fast paced, fluid, and dynamic environment, working with cross functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience ensuring system performance, scalability, and reliability under high demand conditions.

Highly desired, though not required, include:

• Demonstrated experience with Apache NiFi
• Demonstrated experience monitoring system performance and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing software, hardware, and networks.
• Demonstrated experience working within cloud computing environments (AWS), Linux, and Unix-based operating systems.
• Demonstrated experience in platform and application automated deployment.
• Demonstrated experience using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.
• Demonstrated experience using requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Demonstrated experience implementing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud deployment, DevOps, containerization, web service and API management, and computing optimization.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud database, storage, virtualization, and network configurations.

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US Citizenship:

• This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.

Security Clearance:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Travel:

• This position is expected to be onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA).   Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance.

Join J5 Consulting and Grow Your Cybersecurity Career

At J5, we’re a team of innovators protecting organizations from evolving cyber threats. With 18+ years of success in government and commercial sectors, we offer meaningful opportunities to grow your career.

Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including:

• 100% employer-paid health coverage
• a 6% 401(k) match
• PTO
• tuition reimbursement
• bonuses
• professional development, and more.

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