Senior Cloud Engineer

Dark Wolf Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our pack. The successful candidate will be an integral part of a growing team of engineers designing and maintaining a network of systems running custom-built software. This system is a distributed ‘on-prem’ hardware/software stack but is in the process of being transitioned to a cloud service provider. Dark Wolf is looking for a skilled candidate with experience developing cloud infrastructure and automated data storage and processing, ingestion of 3rd party data sets and building programmatic interfaces for use by external customers. 

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing cloud-based solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment including managed services such as S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS, SNS, and SQS.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining infrastructure-as-code and deploying to developer and production environments via AWS CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Demonstrated experience and proficiency in Linux environments.
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise cloud tool development.
• Demonstrated experience using Python and common libraries for data manipulation, unit testing, and interacting with cloud services.
• Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining Python-based websites using the Django web framework.
• Demonstrated experience writing and working with software written in C and Python.
• Demonstrated experience with extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes including manipulating, cleaning, and normalizing diverse data types.
• Demonstrated experience in the use of Linux on both the command line and in a graphical environment.
• Demonstrated ability to transition traditional non-cloud software to a cloud based environment
• Demonstrated experience with adding custom features as designed by a GFI.
• Demonstrated experience writing shell scripts such as bash.
• Demonstrated experience providing information for Assessment & Authorization (A&A) tasks.
• Demonstrated experience writing and maintaining code and system documentation such as wiki’s and formal documentation such as System Design Document and Privileged User Guide.
• Demonstrated experience using the GIT version control system.
• Demonstrated experience communicating with enterprise teams to coordinate integration.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating with external contractors to deploy and integrate their applications into secure cloud environment.
• US Citizenship with Top Secret Security Clearance with polygraph 

Desired Qualifications: 

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Demonstrated experience with networking, routing, and configuration of virtual private networks.
• Demonstrated experience with cross domain data transfer solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with software system design and integration.
• Demonstrated experience with data science techniques and visualization methods.
• Demonstrated experience with the Enterprise cloud development tools.
• Demonstrated experience with the security accreditation processes, procedures, and requirements.

This position is located in Chantilly, VA.