Looking for a Cloud Software Engineer Skill Level 2 to augment the existing platform team for a large analytic cloud repository. A successful candidate for this position has experience working with large Hadoop and Accumulo based clusters and a familiarity with open-source technologies. Additional knowledge of Linux OS development, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka and CentOS would benefit the candidate. Ideal candidates would have familiarity with open-source products and be willing/able to learn new technologies. The platform team builds subject matter expertise. This position will have a primary focus supporting Accumulo. 

Highly Desired: Proficiencies in the following have been noted as highly desired for this position:
•    Apache Hadoop
•    Java Programming
•    HAProxy
•    Linux operating system monitoring and tuning
•    Linux operating system level virtualization
•    Committer/contributor to open source application
•    Agile development experience
•    Highly Desired – Familiarity with microservices software development technique and container-orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)

Nice to Have:
•    Apache Accumulo
•    Apache Zookeeper
•    Nifi

​​​​​​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.

Skills:
• (U//FOUO) Shall have at least five (5) years of experience in software
development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
• (U//FOUO) Shall have at least four(4) years of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++
• (U//FOUO) Shall have demonstrated ability to work with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Acumulo, Big Table, etc.
• (U//FOUO) Shall have demonstrated work experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.
• (U//FOUO) Shall have demonstrated work experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• (U//FOUO) Shall have demonstrated work experience with Serialization such as JSON and/or BSON
• (U//FOUO) Shall have demonstrated work experience developing Restful services
• (U//FOUO) Shall have at least three (3) years of experience developing software for UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.
• (U//FOUO) Shall have demonstrated work experience in the requirements analysis and design of at least one Object Oriented system.
• (U//FOUO) Shall have demonstrated work experience developing solutions integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products.
• (U//FOUO) Shall have at least three (3) years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.
• (U//FOUO) Shall have demonstrated technical writing skills and shall have generated technical documents in support of a software development project.
• (U//FOUO) In addition, the candidate will have demonstrated experience, work or college level courses, in at least two (2) of the desired characteristics.
Qualifications:
(U//FOUO) A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field is highly desired which will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience. A Master's degree in a Technical Field will be considered equivalent to four (4) years of experience. NOTE: A degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar degree will be considered as a technical field.
(U//FOUO) Shall possess the Hadoop/Cloud Developer Certification.

Desired:
(These desired qualities are representative of those types of experience sought for this labor category, but are not limited to those listed herein. Target desired qualifications will be listed in each task order Statement of Work):
• (U//FOUO) Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
• (U//FOUO) Understanding of Big-Data Cloud Scalability (Amazon, Google, Facebook)
• (U//FOUO) Experience designing and developing automated analytic software,
techniques, and algorithms.
• (U//FOUO) Experience with taxonomy construction for analytic disciplines, knowledge
areas and skills.
• (U//FOUO) Experience developing and deploying:data driven analytics; event driven
analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
• (U//FOUO) Experience with linguistics (grammar, morphology, concepts).
• (U//FOUO) Experience developing and deploying analytics that discover and exploit social
networks.
• (U//FOUO) Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, data
element dictionaries, software application program interfaces and other technical
specifications.
• (U//FOUO) Experience developing and deploying analytics within a heterogeneous schema
environment.