Senior Cloud Software Engineer

OPS Consulting is seeking a Senior Cloud Software Engineer to provide cloud software research, development, and engineering services to our customer in Annapolis Junction, MD.
Job Description: Provide cloud software research, development, and engineering services to include requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment, testing, validation, and issue diagnosis/resolution.
Required Experience: A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field is highly desired which will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.
A Master's degree in a Technical Field will be considered equivalent to four (4) years of experience.
Eight (8) years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
Six(6) years of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++ Demonstrated ability to work with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Acumulo, Big Table, etc.
Demonstrated work experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.
Experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) Experience with serialization such as JSON and/or BSON Shall have demonstrated work experience developing Restful services Five (5) years of experience developing software for UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.
Experience developing solutions integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products.
Three (3) years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.
Shall have demonstrated technical writing skills and shall have generated technical documents in support of a software development project.
Hadoop /Cloud Developer Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
Experience developing and deploying data driven analytics; event driven analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
Desired Experience: Understanding of Big-Data Cloud Scalability (Amazon, Google, Facebook) Experience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques, and algorithms.
Experience developing and deploying: analytics that include foreign language processing; analytic processes that incorporate/integrate multi-media technologies, including speech, text, image and video exploitation; analytics that function on massive data sets, for example, more than a billion rows or larger than 10 Petabytes; analytics that employ semantic relationships (i.
e.
, inference engines) between structured and unstructured data sets; analytics that identify latent patterns between elements of massive data sets, for example more than a billion rows or larger than 10 Petabytes; analytics that employ techniques commonly associated with Artificial Intelligence, for example genetic algorithms.
Experience with taxonomy construction for analytic disciplines, knowledge areas and skills.
Experience with linguistics (grammar, morphology, concepts).
Experience developing and deploying analytics that discover and exploit social networks.
Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, data element dictionaries, software application program interfaces and other technical Experience developing and deploying analytics within a heterogeneous schema environment.
Security Clearance: A current government clearance, background investigation, and polygraph are required.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected class.