Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Rapid Cycle Solutions LLC (RCS) is an innovative small business providing IT and management consulting services to the U.S. Federal Government and commercial clients. We have unique strengths in complex, cross-organizational solution analysis, design, development, implementation, and change management supporting enterprise requirements. Our team of professionals has deep consulting backgrounds supporting the unique needs of our clients. Our team members have proven experience leading strategic initiatives within the civilian Government agencies.

*Note: Please ensure you meet the Security Clearance obligations before applying to optimize your consideration for this and other employment opportunities with RCS.

RCS is seeking a Cloud Engineer to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open-source data, information, and insights. Requires application development support to maintain and enhance an existing social media data exploitation platform. Will work within an existing team environment. Work will include developing enhancements to an existing service-based web application.

This position requires the candidate to meet specific Security Clearance obligations to work onsite in Chantilly, VA. Relocation assistance is not available.

What you will do:

• Design, implement, and optimize backend services in NodeJS and Typescript.
• Develop and maintain ETL workflows to handle large-scale datasets.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability under high demand conditions.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements.
• Apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously deliver high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.
• Ensure all application security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity to maintain security accreditation.
• Support data engineering efforts to analyze large data sets to derive data relationships.
• Maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot various codebases deployed in a multi-cloud environment.
• Maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, hardware and networks.
• Manage and mitigate IT security vulnerabilities and apply security controls.

Required Qualifications/Education:

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph (U.S. Citizenship required)
• Design, implementation, and optimization of backend services in NodeJS and Typescript.
• Strings in development and large-scale data processing.
• Building and optimizing ETL pipelines.
• Developing and maintaining ETL workflows to handle large-scale datasets.
• Working in a fast paced, fluid, and dynamic environment, working with cross functional teams.
• Ensuring system performance, scalability, and reliability under high demand conditions.

Nice to Have Qualifications:

• Apache NiFi
• Monitoring system performance and troubleshooting.
• Installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing software, hardware, and networks.
• Working within cloud computing environments (AWS), Linux, and Unix-based operating systems.
• Platform and application automated deployment.
• Using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.
• Using requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Implementing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment.
• Cloud deployment, DevOps, containerization, web service and API management, and computing optimization.
• Cloud database, storage, virtualization, and network configurations.
  
  

RCS is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities as an applicant, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify

All RCS work locations are drug-free workplaces.