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ANTICIPATED AWARD: April/May 2026
ANTICIPATED START: May 14, 2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 1 Base Year + 4 Option Years
LOCATION: Fort Meade, MD

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Active TS/SCI

About Us:

Celestar, a proud Veteran-Owned company, offers highly competitive salaries and benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes company-paid employee and family dental insurance, employee health insurance, life insurance, and disability coverage. Additionally, we provide a 401(k)-retirement plan with company matching, paid holidays, and personal time off.

Responsibilities:

·The Software Developers and Web Master Team Support shall deliver products (by uploading documents to USG servers) developed under this PWS and assist in ensuring that they are available to the greater US IC.

·Conducts data analytics, data engineering, data mining, exploratory analysis, predictive analysis, and statistical analysis, and uses scientific techniques to correlate data into graphical, written, visual and verbal narrative products, enabling more informed analytic decisions.

·Proactively retrieves information from various sources, analyzes it for better understanding about the data set, and builds AI tools that automate certain processes.

·Duties typically include: creating various ML-based tools or processes, such as recommendation engines or automated lead scoring systems.

·Performs statistical analysis, applies data mining techniques, and builds high quality prediction systems.

·Should be skilled in data visualization and use of graphical applications, including Microsoft Office (Power BI) and Tableau; major data science languages, such as R and Python; managing and merging of disparate data sources, preferably through R, Python, or SQL; statistical analysis; and data mining algorithms.

·Should have prior experience with large data Multi-INT analytics, ML, and automated predictive analytics.

·Lead the migration effort from traditional servers to AWS, ensuring seamless integration, minimal downtime and cost optimization. Design and implement overall secure, scalable, and efficient cloud architectures utilizing a wide breadth of AWS services and best practices. Design and implement solutions utilizing expert-level knowledge of AWS services including but not limited to: Identity and Access Management (IAM), compute (Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Lambda, API Gateway etc.), network (VPC, subnets, network security, etc.), database services (RDS) and CloudFormation.

·Use IAM to create users, role and groups and ensure that the principle of least privilege is always adhered to.

·Implement correctly sized compute resources and implement Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) and Auto-Scaling groups as needed. Create and manage Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), subnets, Network Access Control Lists (NACL), Security Groups and firewalls.

·Develop automation scripts using Python and boto3 to streamline cloud management and deployment. Implement robust, automated infrastructure monitoring and remediation using EventBridge, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda, Trusted Advisor, Config and Security Hub.

·Possess a minimum certification of AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.

·Assist in developing and maintaining a web site that is accessible by all the IC members and the various branches of the Army.

·Perform web-based database design, implementation, and maintenance for the CI Common Operating Picture (COP) and the intelligence web pages.

·Create and develop computer software configuration documentation, user manuals, and provide one-on-one consultation to the branch chiefs and senior analysts IAW CDRL A051.

·Shall update and maintain the classified intelligence websites and associated systems; including: posting data, providing information and responding to documentation for activities such as RFI, Requests for Assistance (RFAs) and Request for Products (RFPs) on a daily basis.

Required qualifications/skills:

·Minimum education and years of experience requirements for the following:

oHigh School Diploma: 30 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

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oAssociates Degree: 24 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

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oBachelors Degree: 22 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years

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oMasters Degree or higher: 20 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years

·At least five years of experience in website coding, basic graphics techniques, Structured Query Language (SQL), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Java, Java Applets, and JavaScript,

·Must be Security Plus certified

·Must be qualified at Information Assurance Technical Workforce Requirement Level II.

·Possess a minimum certification of AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Come on board with a company that Values its Employees!

Celestar Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Celestar Corporation prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in employment based on race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex (including same-sex); sexual orientation; gender identity; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability or handicap; citizenship status; marital status; service member/protected veteran status; or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.