Labor Category: Cloud Engineer Position Title: Cloud Developer Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert Salary: Up to $215,000.00 per year Core Hours: 9am to 4pm Location: McLean VA Description Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph. Cloud Development • The Candidate shall work with data scientists and data engineers to architect, operate, and document relevant cloud-on prem hybrid solutions to optimize relevant workflow components for advanced artificial intelligence applications. • The Candidate shall lead work to optimize cloud-based computing technologies, such as leveraging pyspark, distributed computation, and model training/inference, and integrate solutions into relevant delivery mechanisms or partner systems. • The Candidate shall build tools and scripts to monitor, troubleshoot, automate, and deploy AI models and outputs as part of a variety of existing business analytic platforms. • The Candidate shall be directly responsible for solutions related to the Customer’s analytic work in these key areas: availability, latency, performance, efficiency, documentation, change management, monitoring, security, emergency response, and capacity planning. • The Candidate shall apply, develop and deploy cloud microservices and integration of cloud resources with on prem high performance computation servers to support the Customer’s efforts. • The Candidate shall create and use optimal solutions to store and host information. • The Candidate shall create software pipelines to query databases of interest, combine and merge data sources, and analyze information. • The Candidate shall use the Customer’s knowledge management, version control, coding standards, and delivery platforms. • The Candidate shall champion and manage requirements, builds, upgrades, and fixes within multiple (dev, test, production) environments. • The Candidate shall assist developers and data scientists with code deployments, particularly providing CI/CD configuration. • The Candidate shall leverage available solutions to create automations that enable timely tipping and queuing. • The Candidate shall optimize open-source software to accelerate mission solutions and minimize proprietary dependencies at the direction of the Customer. • The Candidate shall use a microservice-based architecture and agile coding for engineering and development activities to support reliable network performance, modern resource management, and security processes. • The Candidate shall develop analytical software packages, pipelines, and custom virtual environments for deployment in secure environments including standalone workstations, standalone compute clusters, secure cloud environments, and on-premises network infrastructure. Details Labor Category: Cloud Engineer Position Title: Cloud Developer Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert Salary: Up to $215,000.00 per year Core Hours: 9am to 4pm Location: McLean VA Mandatory Requirements • Developmental (0-2 years’ experience) • Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience) • Senior (6-10 years’ experience) • Expert (11-15 years’ experience) • SME (16+ years’ experience) • Demonstrated experience with Python, Bash, and Terraform. • Demonstrated experience Anaconda for development purposes. • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with software such as source control (Git/GitHub), continuous build/delivery (Jenkins), issue management (Jira), and documentation/collaboration (Confluence). • Demonstrated experience with automated testing and deployment of infrastructure or configurations. • Demonstrated experience in the administration, provisioning, and use of cloud technologies (i.e. AWS) particularly with application of data science approaches in the cloud. • Demonstrated experience deploying and tuning Apache NiFi or other ETL workflows. • Demonstrated experience hosting and managing Structured Query Language (SQL) databases within cloud based relational databases. • Demonstrated experience optimizing connectivity between cloud-based services and on prem high performance cloud compute servers. • Demonstrated experience with DevSecOps solutions and tools. • Demonstrated experience in the cyber security domain to include: governance and risk management, compliance, encryption, software development security, access control, network security or secure architecture, or security operations. • Demonstrated experience preparing presentations and presenting to senior stakeholders. Optional Requirements • Demonstrated experience supporting data scientists to create—through fine tuning, transfer learning—models for classification, prediction, generative AI, or other similar tasks. • Demonstrated experience optimizing the deployment of AI models in the cloud. • Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask. • Demonstrated experience using Tableau to connect cloud serves to Tableau output visualizations. B4CORP Company Information B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. 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Compensation • Outstanding Salaries Retirement • Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee's salary – Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50) • Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period) Insurance • Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options) • Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan • Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans • Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week) • Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month) • Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00) Employee Referral Bonus • Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP Paid Time Off (PTO) • Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays) • Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval) Tuition And Training • Free CBTNuggets Online Training Account – More than 200 online IT courses on a large variety of topics, including networking, security, virtualization, and the cloud – Cisco, Microsoft, and Google – Virtual Labs • Free L inux Academy Online Training Account Internal Tracking -SV-2243 If You Would Like To Complete a Detailed B4Corp Employment Application, Please Do So Using This Form (You Only Need To Fill Out This Application Once For B4Corp Or If You Have Updates To The Information.) https://b4corp.com/b4corp-employment-application/. 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