Job Overview and Responsibilities

Overview

• Working mode: Fort Meade, MD, USA (On site)
• Experience level: Mid-senior
• Experience required: 5 Years
• Education level: Bachelor’s degree
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industry: Information Technology and Services
• Compensation: $101,000 - $130,000
• Total position: 1
• Relocation assistance: Yes
• Visa sponsorship eligibility: No
• Skills: AWS, Python, Kubernetes, Docker

About us

We are a recognized leader in data science, machine learning and AI. We pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting-edge solutions to real-world problems. We are looking for innovative and inquisitive self-starters who enjoy understanding a problem space and building fast, efficient, and tractable data infrastructure to deliver real value for our clients. 

Job Summary

We are looking to hire a Cloud Engineer who can support robust and repeatable cloud designs in support of data manipulation, large-scale infrastructure for data ingestion, and data visualization for custom client applications. Candidates should have the ability and the willingness to tailor applications to a clients’ business goals using an iterative methodology. Candidates should also be able to consider both long-term stability and scalability while taking a user-focused approach to development and deployment. This role does require you to have a Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience in a technical role and you must be eligible to obtain a clearance if you do not already have one.

Key Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience in a technical role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to parse project requirements, including asking questions to ensure full and correct understanding.
• Willingness and ability to learn new concepts and tools quickly.

Candidates should have a mix of the following experiences:

• Certification in design or architecture for one or more of the following cloud providers – AWS, Azure, or Google.
• Deep experience in general compute and storage within cloud-based systems.
• Deep experience in networking and security with cloud-based systems.
• Deep experience in serverless capabilities within a cloud environment, AWS Lambda, or equivalent.
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases native to cloud provider or 3rd party.
• Experience with deploying data manipulation tools for transformations in preparation for analytics. Tools may include, AWS Glue, or equivalent.
• Experience in delivering machine learning results from cloud packages such as AWS
• Sagemaker, Google Vertex AI, or equivalent.
• Fluency with one or more modern Object-Oriented Programming Languages (Python, Typescript, Java)
• Experience with user administration hierarchies leveraging IAM technologies.
• Utilized infrastructure as code within one of the cloud environments – AWS CDK, Terraform, or equivalent.
• Led and collaborated with others to accomplish a technical task.
• Presented technical work to a non-technical audience via writing or presentation.

Why You Should Apply This Position

• Remote/Hybrid Work Model: To take advantage of the best of both worlds, we blend the flexibility of remote work and the value of in-person collaboration with our hybrid work model.
• Continuous Learning: We host weekly company-wide Tech Talks, local office Fireside Chats, and other ongoing professional development opportunities. Added bonus: we own Statistics.com and offer free tuition to all employees.
• Weekly Catered Lunches: We provide our team and their guests with in-office catered lunches each Friday. Each location is also stocked with free snacks and drinks.
• Paid Time Off & 12 Paid Holidays: On top of accrued PTO, we provide 11 paid holidays plus your birthday off.
• Insurance Coverage: Employees have several options for quality health, dental, and vision insurance to best fit individual needs.
• Fitness Reimbursement: We want you to be healthy and happy, so we reimburse you up to $900 a year on memberships and/or expenses that enable exercise.
• 401k & ESOP: Our 401k plan provides a 3% safe harbor contribution, no match required. Employees are automatically added to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan upon meeting eligibility requirements.
• Amazing Team Members: We believe our people are what makes us special! We intentionally create opportunities to collaborate and get to know one another on a personal level.
• Basic Life & Disability Insurance: We provide $50k in life insurance, as well as short and long-term disability coverage at no cost to employees. Additional life insurance is offered on a voluntary basis.
• Work-Life Balance Prioritization: We prioritize a healthy work-life balance that provides flexibility to have a life outside of work.
• Sabbatical Leave: To reward and refresh you for years of service, we offer paid sabbaticals with expense reimbursements of up to $12,000.