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Job Summary:
Kepora is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer to develop, maintain, and enhance complex Big-Data Cloud systems. The role involves contributing to back-end processing, analyzing, and indexing while providing expertise in Cloud Computing and related technologies.
Responsibilities:
• Develop, maintain, and enhance 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.
Qualifications:
Required:
• U.S. Citizenship
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with Full Scope Polygraph
• 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.
• Bachelors 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 bachelors 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.
• 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.
• Experience with Computer Network Operations: Utility Computing, Network Management, Virtualization (VMWare or VirtualBox), Cloud Computing.
• Multi Node Management and Installation: Management and installation of Cloud and Distributed Computing on multiple nodes, Python, CFEngine, Bash, Ruby or related technologies.
• Experience with Information Assurance: 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).
• 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, Multi-Node 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.
• UNIX/LINUX, CentOS.
• Experience with SIGINT: Experience with 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.
• Experience with Other: CentOS and Linux/RedHat.
• Configuration management tools such as Subversion, ClearQuest, or Razor.
Preferred:
• 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
Company:
Kepora is an IT company that provides software engineering, big data, data science and cloud computing services. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Potomac, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.