Cloud Developer SME

Job title: Cloud Developer SME

Company: Leidos

Job description: DescriptionAs the largest provider of IT services, Leidos develops and sustains large data and technology infrastructures and integrates complex law enforcement IT system for several US federal agencies. At Leidos we offer engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals and growth. This role would be serving a federal law enforcement agency from either the National Capital Region or Huntsville Alabama.Provides technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments. Establishes goals and plans that meet project objectives. A Subject Matter Expert is an individual whose qualifications and/or expertise are exceptional and/or highly unique. Has domain and expert technical knowledge. Performs the following kinds of functions: Initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs; Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consults with client to define need or problem supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions. Decision making and domain knowledge may have a critical impact on overall project implementation. May supervise others.Minimum of 10 years’ experience recommended. In absence of years of experience, certifications or past work may be used to show the level of experience needed to perform at this level.Responsible for developing the cloud service delivery models and architectural framework to enable platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and data as a service (DaaS). Able to implement automation for cloud resources using DevSecOps best practices. Able to analyze applications and make recommendations across multiple area that identify what platforms can move, migrate, and/or be deployed into a cloud environment. Capable of providing strategies for failure/recovery, cost optimization and benefit analyses of cloud, cloud agnostic, and on-site premise services. Responsible for developing and implementing cloud-applications, migrating existing on-premises applications to the cloud, debugging cloud stacks, managing policies for the use of cloud services, requests for new technology, establishing a secure cloud environment, ensuring appropriate availability/uptime design. Works independently designing and developing new software products or major enhancements to existing cloud software.Member of an Agile Team responsible for maintaining a cloud-based data architecture across unclassified and classified enclaves that centralizes administrative data holdings across the Agency, enabling further analytic capabilities.Using data sets, the cloud developer is responsible for developing alerts and analytics to proactively identify, triage, and visualize potential insider risk. As the alerts are built, observed PRIFs will be combined to create an insider risk score for an individual. The goal is to have a dashboard to display individuals who have the highest individual insider risk scores, prioritized by the platform based on analyst requirements, in real time.Primary Responsibilities:
oSupport leadership prioritize increased technical agility, stability, and capability through the utilization of cloud computing technologies and services
oMaximize the architectural framework concept of microservices to enable autonomous application evolution within the customer’s ecosystem
oDeliver system and infrastructure capabilities that are scalable, secure, resilient, and maximized in terms of data sharing and exploitation
oSupport cloud architectures across the AWS unclassified and classified enclaves, with a CI/CD pipeline to support deployment of services to various enclaves
oExperience utilizing various CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab and GitLab Runner, and Artifactory
oExperience deploying and orchestrating Docker containers in cloud environments
oProvide system platform management (Kubernetes) to include monitoring, troubleshooting of preproduction and production environments
oExperience with various air-gapped Government unclassified and classified AWS region (or other cloud service provider in the future) managed services, such as Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), OpenSearch, DynamoDB, and Lambda
oManage the day-to-day operations of the cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting issues, responding to incidents, ensuring backups are operating correctly, and ensuring cost optimization
oMonitor cloud environments to prevent unforeseen charges and ensure that AWS CloudWatch or equivalent service is activated, and billing alerts and alarms are enabled based on and triggered by government defined metrics.
oSupport the migration of IT capabilities to the cloud requiring advanced knowledge of cloud infrastructure, security, networking, business analytics, and process optimization skills
oSupport Government cloud environments design including the selection of appropriate cloud services, defining network architecture, optimization for workload and capacity needs, and configuring security protocols to create and maintain the most efficient service while meeting all Agency and industry requirements
oDesign, develop, deliver, and sustain cloud-based solutions that connect disparate data sources with intent to identify possible matches and relationships
oDesign, develop, deliver, and sustain new and existing cloud-based software tools and subsystems to integrate new and existing application features with back-end system and subsystem capabilities using COTS, GOTS, custom, and open-source software toolsBasic Qualifications:
oBachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems Management, other related discipline, or equivalent experience; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
o12-15 years of prior relevant experience or a Masters 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.
oStrong communication skills
oDOD Top Secret Clearance is required
oUS CitizenshipPreferred Qualifications:
oExperience with collaborative system delivery through configuration management, automated building, automated testing, automated deployment, and automated monitoring and notification
oAgile Experience
oAgile Project Management tools: JIRA, Confluence
oAbility to deliver an advanced visual analytic application to include developing data analytics for desktop and web-developed visual analytic software; facilitating the bulk analysis of relational information utilizing advanced graphics, visualization, and high-performance computing
oExperience utilizing big data technologies and knowledge of data science models to analyze large amounts of data and create valuable insights
oExperience integrating third-party components, the introduction of new custom capabilities, modification of existing code, process improvement recommendation, and automation of operations and maintenance tasks
oExpertise in architect and utilization of large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics
oDatabricks and Lakehouse architectures
oAWS OpenSearch
oExperience with AWS, Splunk, Databricks, and other Oracle/SQL based platforms.
oExperience with python, Microsoft VBA, and DatabricksOriginal Posting Date: 2024-08-13While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.Pay Range: Pay Range $122,200.00 – $220,900.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Expected salary: $122200 – 220900 per year

Location: Temple Hills, MD

Job date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:09:39 GMT

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