Cloud Software Engineer

Security Clearance : Active TS / SCI Full Scope Poly is required at the time of hire.

Elder Research Inc. is a Data Science consulting firm specialized in providing analytic solutions to clients in Commercial and Government industries. Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies across numerous industries, our team enjoys a great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools.

We are trusted advisors to our clients, building lasting relationships and partnering as preferred analytics providers. We use a variety of programming languages and tools to create analytic solutions, often fitting within our clients’ environment and needs.

Join our team and find great opportunities to hone your analytic skills, work on complex problems with amazing teammates, and gain valuable analytics consulting experience.

Summary of Position :

We are looking to hire a Cloud Engineer who can support robust and repeatable cloud designs in support of data manipulation, large-scale infrastructure for data ingestion, and data visualization for custom client applications. Candidates should have the ability and the willingness to tailor applications to a clients’ business goals using an iterative methodology. Candidates should also be able to consider both long-term stability and scalability while taking a user-focused approach to development and deployment. This role does require you to have a Bachelors / Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience in a technical role and you must be eligible to obtain a clearance if you do not already have one.

Candidates should have a mix of the following experiences :

• Certification in design or architecture for one or more of the following cloud providers – AWS, Azure, or Google.
• Deep experience in general compute and storage within cloud-based systems.
• Deep experience in networking and security with cloud-based systems.
• Deep experience in serverless capabilities within a cloud environment, AWS Lambda, or equivalent.
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases native to cloud provider or 3rd party.
• Experience with deploying data manipulation tools for transformations in preparation for analytics. Tools may include, AWS Glue, or equivalent.
• Experience in delivering machine learning results from cloud packages such as AWS Sagemaker, Google Vertex AI, or equivalent.
• Fluency with one or more modern Object-Oriented Programming Languages (Python, Typescript, Java)
• Experience with user administration hierarchies leveraging IAM technologies.
• Utilized infrastructure as code within one of the cloud environments – AWS CDK, Terraform, or equivalent.
• Led and collaborated with others to accomplish a technical task.
• Presented technical work to a non-technical audience via writing or presentation.

Minimum Requirements