Cova Strategies

Cova Strategies is seeking talented and driven Cloud Software Engineer to join our dynamic, employee-focused engineering team. In this role, you will contribute to the development, enhancement, and maintenance of complex and innovative software systems. These systems span a wide range of applications, including high-performance analytics, cutting-edge algorithm design, large-scale data processing, real-time computing, and enterprise business solutions.

You’ll work in a collaborative environment where creativity, technical excellence, and continuous learning are highly valued. If you're passionate about solving challenging problems and making a meaningful impact through software, we invite you to bring your expertise to our small but rapidly growing team. In addition to offering highly competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package, Cova Strategies is a company who prioritizes employee happiness and actively involves team members in shaping the company's future. We are dedicated to creating a workplace culture where employees feel genuinely valued and supported.

We believe that your job should not only challenge you but also bring you joy. We are committed to supporting your career goals and fostering your professional growth.

Security Clearance

Active TS-SCI with FS poly required.

Citizenship

Due to the clearance requirement, all candidates must be U.S. citizens.

Place of Performance

Ft. Meade, MD.

Pay Rate

Please note, the compensation range for this position is determined by a comprehensive evaluation of multiple factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s skills, experience, education, certifications, and the specific needs of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Provide cloud software research, development, and engineering services to include requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment, testing, validation, and issue diagnosis/resolution.
• Design, implement and test new features and capabilities for Apache/Accumulo needed to support large content and metadata repositories.
• Conducting Apache/Accumulo training sessions, which include hands-on software configuration and programming exercises.
• Developing web-based user interfaces to support search and presentation of operational data and developing web services that provide REST-based APIs to the content and metadata repositories.
• Developing algorithms to operate on large volumes of operational metadata. This work will investigate advanced parallel programming techniques for implementing analytics that can effectively run on petabyte-scale operational data set in a secure manner. The mission relevant analytics will be designed, implemented, tested for deployment in the content and metadata repositories.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with FS Polygraph security clearance required.
• Must be willing to work onsite five days/week.
• Within the last ten (10) years, a minimum of seven (7) years experience combined programming with all of the following languages: Java, C++, or Python
• Within the last seven (7) years, a minimum of five (5) years experience designing and developing applications in a Windows or UNIX/Linux operating environment
• Within the last three five (5) years, a minimum of three (3) years experience with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Apache Accumulo, or Big Table
• Within the last three (3) years, a minimum of one (1) year experience with Map/Reduce
• Within the last three (3) years, a minimum of one (1) year experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• Within the last three (3) years, a minimum of one (1) year experience with requirements analysis and design for one (1) or more object-oriented systems
• Within the past two (2) years, six (6) months development experience with Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Computing Services
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline; an associate's degree in computer science or related discipline and two (2) years programming experience or five (5) years programming experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree

Joining Cova means joining a team that values your expertise and well-being.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you personally and professionally.

Benefits include

• 100% Paid Medical, Dental & Vision with CareFirst (for you & your family)
• No Payroll Deductions or Deductibles
• Short- & Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Life Insurance – 150% of Salary (up to $200K)
• 401(k) with 6% Match – Fully Vested Immediately