• Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
• Type: Contract
• Job #2621

Title: Cloud Design Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Clearance: TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
Compensation Range: $180k – $205k

Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government.  Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission.  Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems.  If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Description:
The Cloud Design Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse Web-Based User Interfaces that interact with Big Data Cloud systems based upon documented requirements. Directly contributes to all stages of designing, implementing and testing Web Based User Interfaces that expose data for Big-Data Cloud Based infrastructure using Hadoop Eco-System. Provides expertise in Cloud Technologies, Distributed Computing and how to best display data produced by these technologies. Cloud Designer implements Graphical Web-Based User Interface with usability, security, and performance in mind. Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Resolves software problem reports. Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment. Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse.

The Level 2 Cloud Design Engineer shall possess the following capabilities:

• Provides in-depth knowledge of Information Retrieval; assisting the software development team in designing, developing and testing Cloud Information Retrieval
• Propose new ways of analyzing data stored in Cloud Big Table
• Propose new ways of analyzing data stored in Cloud Distributed File System
• Oversees one or more software development tasks and ensures the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software
• Make recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards

Qualifications:

• Eight (8) years software engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity are required; two (2) years of which must be in programs utilizing Big-Data Cloud technologies and/or Distributed Computing.
• Four (4) years of cloud software engineering experience on projects with similar Big-Data systems may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Master in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university may be substituted for two (2) years of experience.
• Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer certification may be substituted for one (1) year of Cloud experience.

The following Cloud related experiences are required:

• Two (2) year of Web-Based applications that retrieves/stores data in a Cloud Data System
• Two (2) year of building applications that comply with modern Web 2.0 standards
• Two (2) years of Cloud and/or Distributed Computing Information Retrieval (IR).
• One (1) year working with data stored in Cloud Big Table
• One (1) year of analyzing data stored in Cloud Distributed File System

Company Benefits:
Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs.  These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to:  A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.