Data Scientist

About the job Data Scientist

• Location: Chantilly, VA, Reston, VA
• Schedule: Full-Time
• Work Location: On-Site
• Shift: Day Job
• Travel: No
• Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with FS Poly
• Benefits: Click here

Rapid Cycle Solutions LLC (RCS) is an innovative small business providing IT and management consulting services to the U.S. Federal Government and commercial clients. We have unique strengths in complex, cross-organizational solution analysis, design, development, implementation, and change management supporting enterprise requirements. Our team of professionals has deep consulting backgrounds supporting the unique needs of our clients. Our team members have proven experience leading strategic initiatives within the civilian Government agencies.

*Note: Please ensure you meet the Security Clearance obligations before applying to optimize your consideration for this and other employment opportunities with RCS.

RCS is seeking a Data Scientist to apply technical resources to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open-source data, information, and insights. The developer will support developing tailored solutions to tackle unique global collection problems. The work may be performed independently or within a team environment depending on the specific problem statement. Work will include developing Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based resources and skills will span many compute, storage, and networking services.

This position requires the candidate to meet specific Security Clearance obligations to work onsite in Chantilly or Reston, VA.

What you will do:

• Work closely with the 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 Amazon Web Services environment utilizing sponsored approved AWS services.
• Validate collected data to ensure it meets data format requirements.
• Maintain all source code in the GitHub 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.

Required Qualifications/Education:

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph
• U.S. Citizenship required (NO EXCEPTIONS)

• Experience with Python.
• Geo-spatial software and programming packages and data formats.
• 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.
• Experience using GitHub.

Nice to Have Qualifications:

• Deploying AWS applications with AWS's Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Ansible and Terraform are NOT a substitute for CDK.
• Building and deploying containerized applications.
• Building, programmatically working with and maintaining search engines such as ElasticSeach, Lucene, or AWS's OpenSearch.
• Creating, programmatically working with and maintaining SQL and NO-SQL databases.
• Experience with other non-AWS cloud services such as, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure.
• Certification(s)
  • AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or SysOps Administrator.

RCS is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.


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All RCS work locations are drug-free workplaces.

RCS considers several factors which can influence a final salary including but not limited to; skill set relevancy, work experience, geographic location, security clearance, education, certifications, training, and other business and organizational requirements. At RCS we offer competitive compensation packages, benefits, and learning and development opportunities. Individuals are typically not hired at or near the top of the salary range being that compensation decisions are dependent on individual circumstances. The salary range listed for this position is a reasonable estimate taking into consideration the required qualifications.