Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Software Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Reston, VA.  Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community.  We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013.  We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT

The Sponsor applies technical resources for data engineering leveraging enterprise capabilities, where possible, to collect, ingest, format, and enrich open source data. The Sponsor requires software engineers to develop and maintain data exploitation platforms that support/enhance the data collection process. Additionally, the work will be performed within an existing team environment.

THE ROLE

• The Contractor shall accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of publicly available data, and information, as described by the Sponsor to support automating data collection, transformation, and exploitation.
• The Contractor shall provide customized products and services for a wide variety of endeavors, including all operational and targeting components defined by the Sponsor, as well as several support elements.
• The Contractor shall utilize in-house capabilities and tradecraft as well as industry standards, to ensure the automated collection and structuring of publicly available, internet-based data, as specified by the Sponsor. 
• The Contractor shall utilize in-house capabilities as well as publicly available information and industry standards to pinpoint locations of interest.
• The Contractor Team shall work closely with the Sponsor’s product owner and program manager to deliver user stories necessary to realize product vision.
• The Contractor Team shall coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements.
• The Contractor Team shall apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously delivery high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.
• The Contractor Team shall support data engineering efforts to analyze large data sets to derive data relationships.
• The Contractor Team shall maintain all source code in Sponsor-wide, remote Git repository.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience working with ElasticSearch.
• Demonstrated experience using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.
• Demonstrated experience in platform and application automated deployment.
• 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
• Demonstrated experience implementing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment.
• Demonstrated experience incorporating automated software quality checks, security scanning, infrastructure-as-code, and other modern DevSecOps tools and practices.
• Demonstrated experience working within cloud computing environments, Linux and Unix-based operating systems, and using ElasticSearch and Kibana.
• Demonstrated experience using requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing software, hardware and networks.
• Demonstrated experience installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Demonstrated experience monitoring system performance and troubleshooting issues.
• Demonstrated experience developing in Java.
• Demonstrated experience with Scripting Languages such as SSH, Python, JavaScript.
• Demonstrated experience using advanced query functions in relational databases.
• Demonstrated experience using Apache Tomcat Application Servlets.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining data across various systems and databases.
• Demonstrated experience aggregating data across structured data files (JSON, XML, CSV, YAML, and XLSX) and handling and processing dirty data and unstructured data.
• Demonstrated experience performing data analysis and data clustering.
• Demonstrated experience using Git as a source code repository.
• Demonstrated experience collecting and processing data, particular data presented in machine learning (translation skills not required).
• Demonstrated experience developing and documenting scripts on Linux OS.
• Demonstrated experience with Scripting Languages (SSH, Python, JavaScript).
• Demonstrated experience using advanced query functions in relational databases.
• Demonstrated experience using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.
• Demonstrated experience using Javascripts & jquery to include but not limited to: D3, Vue.
• Demonstrated experience using requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Demonstrated experience in app development, deployment, and maintenance.
• Demonstrated experience using Git as a source code repository.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience working to accredit systems for the Sponsor’s cloud environment according to the Sponsor’s security requirements.
• Demonstrated experience in running DataCTRL ETL tool.
• Demonstrated experience using NiFi to ETL data.
• Demonstrated experience in Data Management.

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.