Job Description

• 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.

Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all
newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your
rights and responsibilities as an applicant, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify

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.