Cloud Software Engineer (Levels 2 &3)

Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journal's (BBJ) Best Places to wor k 2019, runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021!

Belay Technologies is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our intel team. The SWE develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse Big-Data cloud systems based on documented requirements. The Cloud Software Engineer provides expertise in cloud computing, and Eco-System, including implementing applications, distributed Computing, Information Retrieval (IR), and Object-Oriented Design. Cloud Software Engineer works individually or as part of a team. Cloud Software Engineer reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Resolves software problem reports. Cloud Software Engineer utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment; and provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS).

Mid-Level Cloud SWE:

Candidates should have the following qualifications:  

• TS/SCI with polygraph is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline may be substituted for four (4) years of general experience.
• Five (5) years of general experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
• Shall have at least three (3) years of experience developing software with high-level languages, such as Java, C, and C++.
• Shall have at least two (2) years of experience with distributed scalable Big Data Store (NoSQL), such as HBase, CloudBase/Accumulo, Big Table, etc., as well as two (2) years of experience with the Map Reduce programming model, the Distributed File System (HDFS), and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.
• Shall have at least three (3) years of experience developing software in UNIX/Linux (Red Hat versions 3-5+) operating systems.

Candidates are required to have the following skills: 

• Shall have demonstrated work experience with Serialization, such as JSON and/or BSON.
• Shall have demonstrated work experience with developing restful services and Ruby on Rails framework.
• Shall have demonstrated work experience in the design and development of at least one Object-Oriented system.
• Shall have demonstrated work experience developing solutions integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products.

Candidates are desired to have the following skills: 

• Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
• Understanding of Big-Data Cloud Scalability (Amazon, Google, Facebook).
• Hadoop/Cloud Developer Certification.
• Experience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques, and algorithms. Experience with taxonomy construction for analytic disciplines, knowledge areas, and skills. Experience developing and deploying: data-driven analytics; event-driven analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
• Experience with linguistics (grammar, morphology, concepts).
• Experience developing and deploying analytics that discovers and exploit social networks.
• Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schema, formats, and data elements.
• Salary: $70,000 - $190,000

Senior Cloud SWE:

Candidates should have the following qualifications:  

• TS/SCI with polygraph is required.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline may be substituted for four (4) years of general experience.
• Eight (8) years of general experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
• Shall have at least six (6) years of experience developing software with high-level languages, such as Java, C, and C++.
• Shall have at least four (4) years of experience with distributed scalable Big Data Store (NoSQL), such as HBase, CloudBase/Accumulo, Big Table, etc., as well as four (4) years of experience with the Map Reduce programming model, the Distributed File System (HDFS), and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.
• Shall have at least three (3) years of experience developing software in UNIX/Linux (Red Hat versions 3-5+) operating systems.
• Shall have at least three (3) years of experience in software integration and software testing, including developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.

Candidates are required to have the following skills: 

• Shall have demonstrated work experience with Serialization, such as JSON and/or BSON
• Shall have demonstrated work experience in developing restful services. 
• Shall have demonstrated work experience in the design and development of at least one Object Oriented system.
• Shall have demonstrated work experience developing solutions integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products.
• Shall have demonstrated technical writing skills and shall have generated technical documents in support of a software development project.
• Support development of a cloud infrastructure; support migration of data to the cloud infrastructure; support development of cloud based tools
• AWS, Kubernetes. Docker, Python
• Support development of a cloud infrastructure; support migration of data to the cloud infrastructure; support development of cloud based tools

Candidates are desired to have the following skills: 

• In addition, the candidate will have demonstrated experience, work, or college-level courses in at least four (4) of the desired characteristics. Shall have demonstrated work experience with Source Code Management (e.g., Git, Stash, or Subversion, etc.).
• Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
• Understanding of Big-Data Cloud Scalability (Amazon, Google, Facebook).
• Hadoop/Cloud Developer Certification.
• Experience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques, and algorithms. Experience with taxonomy construction for analytic disciplines, knowledge areas, and skills. Experience developing and deploying: data-driven analytics; event-driven analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
• Experience with linguistics (grammar, morphology, concepts).
• Experience developing and deploying analytics that discovers and exploit social networks.
• Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schema, formats, and data elements.

Salary: $190,000 to $240,000

Perks and Benefits: 

• 8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday,11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay's volunteer program 
• 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one 
• $5,000 annual training/tuition 
• Student Loan Repayment Program 
• 100% company funded HSA 
• Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance) 
• Dental coverage including orthodontia 
• Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded 
• Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games and prizes 
• Pet adoption program, generous referral bonus program, fun events, and more! 

Belay Technologies is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business located in Columbia, Maryland (Baltimore/Washington/Ft. Meade area). Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development. Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We hire fully cleared software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.