Platform Developer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

NXTKey Corporation is a 15 year old ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 20000, CMMI Level 3 (SVC) + SSD certified and agile Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services (HACS) qualified Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), that has refined our Information Technology, Information management, Information Assurance (IA) and cybersecurity solutions by supporting highly complex Information Technology (IT) environments at the Department of Justice (DOJ) United States Marshals Service (USMS), Justice Management Division (JMD), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Federal Prison Industries (FPI) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Job Description

Client :  HHS

Telecommute :  On site – Washington D.C.

Position Type :   Full time

Contract length :  3 years

This is a great opportunity to work on challenging problems as part of a new DataOps Platform team. Developing an enterprise-wide DataOps platform is a new initiative.  Stepping on decades of experience in dealing with some of industry's most vital data-intensive applications, HHS approaches solving the problems at enterprise scale using modern technologies such as Kubernetes, GitOps and containerization

Duties & Responsibilities

The DataOps Platforms team :

Develops and continuously improves DataOps platform.

Develops and maintains common tools and libraries.

Evaluates new technologies and practices.

Helps developers with adoption of platform.

Ensures compliance with the Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines.

Embraces agile development and continuous improvement

Encourages growth mindset and offers leadership opportunities at any level

Required Skills :

5 - 7 years of experience is the field

Strong coding skills in at least one programing language are required (Python, C++, ...)

Kubernetes, containerization

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud services

Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Pub / Sub or equivalent

Apache AirFlow or equivalent

Experience with data processing applications and modern cloud-based data processing infrastructure

Linux command-line skills

Bonus Skills : Google Anthos

Docker

GitOps tools :  ArgoCD or equivalent

Infrastructure as code tools : Terraform or equivalent

GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products for management of Git source control, CI / CD pipelines and artifact lifecycle management

Modern observability and logging tools : Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor),

DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Splunk, or equivalent

Secret Management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent

Data transfer tools : AWS DataSync, Aspera, MinIO, CloudSoda or equivalent

Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub / Sub

Experience with best-practice design patterns in coding and architecture

Experience working in Agile environment

Qualifications

Educational Requirements

B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Systems Engineering.

Work Authorization :

• US Citizen only.
• Must have an Active Public Trust clearance.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.