Cloud Developer

SilverEdge is a premier provider of innovative cyber, software, and intelligence solutions, addressing mission-critical challenges for the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and beyond. We are dedicated to delivering impactful results to meet mission goals through cutting-edge technology and expertise. We are seeking a Cloud Developer to join our dynamic team. This individual will play a pivotal role in developing innovative and effective solutions for our DoD customers within the IC sector.

• Work with data scientists and data engineers to architect, operate, and document relevant cloud-on prem hybrid solutions to optimize relevant workflow components for advanced artificial intelligence applications.
• Lead work to optimize cloud-based computing technologies, such as leveraging pyspark, distributed computation, and model training/inference, and integrate solutions into relevant delivery mechanisms or partner systems.
• Build tools and scripts to monitor, troubleshoot, automate, and deploy AI models and outputs as part of a variety of existing business analytic platforms.
• Be directly responsible for solutions related to the Sponsor’s analytic work in these key areas: availability, latency, performance, efficiency, documentation, change management, monitoring, security, emergency response, and capacity planning.
• Apply, develop and deploy cloud microservices and integration of cloud resources with on prem high performance computation servers to support the Sponsor’s efforts.
• Create and use optimal solutions to store and host information.
• Create software pipelines to query databases of interest, combine and merge data sources, and analyze information.
• Use the knowledge management, version control, coding standards, and delivery platforms.
• Champion and manage requirements, builds, upgrades, and fixes within multiple (dev, test, production) environments.
• Assist developers and data scientists with code deployments, particularly providing CI/CD configuration.
• Leverage available solutions to create automations that enable timely tipping and queuing.
• Optimize open-source software to accelerate mission solutions and minimize proprietary dependencies at the direction of the Sponsor.
• Use a microservice-based architecture and agile coding for engineering and development activities to support reliable network performance, modern resource management, and security processes.
• Develop analytical software packages, pipelines, and custom virtual environments for deployment in secure environments including standalone workstations, standalone compute clusters, secure cloud environments, and on-premises network infrastructure.

• Demonstrated experience with Python, Bash, and Terraform.
• Demonstrated experience Anaconda for development purposes.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with software such as source control (Git/GitHub), continuous build/delivery (Jenkins), issue management (Jira), and documentation/collaboration (Confluence).
• Demonstrated experience with automated testing and deployment of infrastructure or configurations.
• Demonstrated experience in the administration, provisioning, and use of cloud technologies (i.e. AWS) particularly with application of data science approaches in the cloud.
• Demonstrated experience deploying and tuning Apache NiFi or other ETL workflows.
• Demonstrated experience hosting and managing Structured Query Language (SQL) databases within cloud based relational databases.
• Demonstrated experience optimizing connectivity between cloud-based services and on prem high performance cloud compute servers.
• Demonstrated experience with DevSecOps solutions and tools.
• Demonstrated experience in the cyber security domain to include: governance and risk management, compliance, encryption, software development security, access control, network security or secure architecture, or security operations.
• Demonstrated experience preparing presentations and presenting to senior stakeholders.

Security Clearance:  Active, government issued clearance with poly.

• Demonstrated experience supporting data scientists to create—through fine tuning, transfer learning—models for classification, prediction, generative AI, or other similar tasks.
• Demonstrated experience optimizing the deployment of AI models in the cloud.
• Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask.
• Demonstrated experience using Tableau to connect cloud serves to Tableau output visualizations.

SilverEdge Government Solutions was founded on the belief that nurturing talent and collaborating closely with our customers enables us to think big and deliver the best for our country. Our mission is to bring top technology talent together to solve the world’s most challenging problems while protecting the United States and our allies.SilverEdge Government Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and applicants receive lawful consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.