Lead Cloud Software Engineer

3 weeks ago


Lanham, United States Science Systems & Applications Full time $85,000 - $140,000
Job DescriptionJob Description

Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI) is hiring Cloud Software Engineers to join a growing team of cloud experts who help our National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other public sector customers use the latest cloud capabilities and technologies to support meaningful projects in Earth and environmental science research, engineering, and applications for societal benefit. The current opportunity is supporting cloud migration activities for one of NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs), located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.. Support areas will cover a broad array of Amazon Web Services (AWS) capabilities with a focus on developing, integrating, and testing new solutions as the DAAC continues to migrate its extensive data holdings and services into NASA’s Cloud. Successful candidates will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and be good at collaborating, innovating, and making things happen. They will also be curious learners who seek out cutting-edge research and information to expand and enhance their ability to be ready for what’s next.


Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science and four years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Two years of demonstrated experience designing, developing, and debugging in cloud environments (AWS)
  • Two years experience with the following AWS components: Lambda, EC2, Step Functions, DynamoDB, RDS, S3 (Standard-IA and Glacier), SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Cloudwatch, API Gateway, Console, CLI
  • Demonstrated experience with agile software development practices
  • Two years experience with Cloud security including AWS IAM (policies, roles, etc) and VPC concepts (security groups, subnets, etc)
  • Two years experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Three years of experience programming in Node.js/Javascript, Java, Python, Perl, and/or Bash
  • Three years of experience with secure software development practices and concepts in Agile environment
  • Knowledge in managing and using containers and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • Experience with DevOps CI/CD pipeline tools (Git , Bamboo) GitLab, Github, and/or BitBucket
  • Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, Elastic Search, AWS DynamoDB etc.)
  • Experience with Representational State Transfer (REST) services and tools (curl, postman, etc)
  • A minimum of five years experience demonstrating a deep understanding of Linux environments (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS)
  • Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills • Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
  • US Citizenship required.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated knowledge of cloud native patterns and micro-service architecture
  • Demonstrated experience with agile software development practices
  • Significant experience with the following agile software development practices and associated project management tools (SAFe, Jira, Confluence)
  • Experience troubleshooting serverless and container-oriented AWS deployments (CloudWatch)
  • AWS certification (Associate, Professional, and/or Specialty)
  • Experience with distributed, loosely-coupled and scalable architectures including serverless architecture and frameworks
  • Experience with NASA Earthdata projects and Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs)

EOE, including disability/vets

Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.



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