Cloud Solutions Architect

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.
Introduction
The Sponsor requires support in operating and maintaining an AWS hosted software application and underlying databases. This support includes bug fixes of the current application and evolving / enhancing the application commensurate with user feedback, Contractor-provided recommendations, and the Sponsor's strategic growth. This support includes ensuring compliance with all IT / security / other applicable policies, advising the Sponsor on risk mitigation to ensure future policy compliance, and adherence to a Contractor-recommended and Sponsor-approved Configuration Management processes. The estimated Period of Performance (POP) is 1 (one) year.

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience:

• The Contractor shall have the following required skills, certifications, and demonstrated experience:
• Demonstrated experience in software design and development using the full suite of Enterprise  SecDevOps tools to support Continuous Integration / Continuous Development services and microservices on a cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience in full stack web application software development using Vue (Javascript), FastAPI (Python), and PostgreSQL (managed Amazon Web Service (AWS) Relational Database Service (RDS).
• Demonstrated experience in cloud infrastructure-as-code networking and service administration, to include deploying, operating, and maintaining web services on a cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing could infrastructure resiliency and on-demand scaling practices.
• Demonstrated experience in user interface engineering, to include creating, promoting, and supporting standards for usability excellence.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting, designing, and developing large scale data solutions to provide efficient searching, analytical, and reporting capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience in entity resolution on large and continuously growing data sets.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating Assessment and Authorization processing.
• Demonstrated experience managing data set permissions.
• Demonstrated experience in IT security compliance for systems, to include auditing and monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing configuration management plans and processes for software applications and underlying databases.
• Demonstrated experience working with operating systems including FidOS and CLSE.
• Demonstrated experience developing containerized (Podman) applications.

Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience: 
 

• Certification in cloud architectures and services.
• Demonstrated experience in operating and maintaining systems on JWICS (Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System). 
• Demonstrated experience in ingesting data records into software applications.
• Demonstrated experience in handling exceptional records, as defined by Sponsor regulations, and proper safeguarding of US person information.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and developing content on digital platforms such as Confluence that provide corporate messages, training, troubleshooting tips, and other content to the user base.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and developing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms at scale, and other deep learning systems.
• Demonstrated experience using Sigma and Analytic Workbench platforms to perform quality control and quality assurance checks on Sponsor application performance against raw data holdings.
• Demonstrated experience developing and deploying applications via Kubernetes or similar container cluster orchestration management systems such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Demonstrated experience developing applications using Sponsor developed CookieCutter templates.
• Demonstrated experience using Sponsor tools to facilitate Assessment and Authorization processing.
• Demonstrated experience using Sponsor tools to manage data set permissions.
• Demonstrated experience working with Sponsor developed development and production operating systems including FidOS and CLSE.

 

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US Citizenship:

• This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.

Security Clearance:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Travel: 

• This position is expected to be onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA).   Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance.