Data Scientist

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise.

The Customer applies technical resources to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open source data, information, and insights. The position requires developer support in developing tailored solutions to tackle unique global collection problems. Work may be performed independently or within a team environment depending on the specific problem statement.

• Work closely with the Customer’s technical lead to architect, deploy, and maintain multiple, fast‑turnaround capabilities used to perform various highly‑visible and high‑priority collection efforts.
• Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure capabilities and deliverables meet defined requirements and tradecraft needs.
• Create and maintain collection capabilities and deliverables within the Customer’s Amazon Web Services environment utilizing approved services.
• Validate collected data to ensure it meets data format requirements.
• Maintain all source code in the Customer’s Git Hub repository.
• Document all source code, including how to execute the code.
• Perform operations and maintenance on the collection capabilities and deliverables to adapt to changes in collection target, technologies, data formats, and naming conventions.

• Demonstrated experience with Python.
• Demonstrated experience with geo‑spatial software and programming packages and data formats.
• Demonstrated experience creating and managing AWS resources, including provisioning EC2 instances, writing and deploying Lambda functions, creating and writing to S3, and managing authorization appropriately across resources with IAM policies.
• Demonstrated experience using Git Hu b.

• Demonstrated experience deploying AWS applications with AWS’s Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Ansible and Terraform are NOT a substitute for CDK.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying containerized applications.
• Demonstrated experience building, programmatically working with and maintaining search engines such as Elastic Seach, Lucene, or AWS’s Open Search.
• Demonstrated experience creating, programmatically working with and maintaining SQL and NO‑SQL databases.
• Demonstrated experience with other non‑AWS cloud services such as Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
• Certification(s):
  • AWS Dev Ops Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Sys Ops Administrator.

• This position requires U.S. Citizenship. Verification of U.S. Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
• Clearance Verification:
  This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

• This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA).
• Local travel by privately owned vehicle will be on an as needed basis within the local place of performance.
• Temporary Duty travel will be outside the Continental United States as requested and approved by the Customer.

• 6% 401(k) match
• PTO
• Professional development and more.