Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.

We are actively hiring a Software Developer - Python / AWS with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to join our Mission Technology Division working in Reston, VA.  

The team applies technical resources to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open source data, information, and insights. The team requires developer 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 the team needs skills spanning many compute, storage, and networking services.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• You will work closely with the Sponsor’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 Sponsor’s Amazon Web Services environment utilizing sponsored approved AWS services.
• Validate collected data to ensure it meets data format requirements.
• Maintain all source code in Sponsor’s 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 EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• Demonstrated experience with Python.
• Demonstrated experience with geo-spatial software and programming packages and data formats.
• 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.
• Experience using GitHub

   PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Experience deploying AWS applications with AWS’s Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Ansible and Terraform are NOT a substitute for CDK.
• Experience building and deploying containerized applications.
• Experience building, programmatically working with and maintaining search engines such as ElasticSeach, Lucene, or AWS’s OpenSearch.
• Experience 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action

ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law. It is the policy of ATS not merely to refrain from employment discrimination as required by the various federal, state, and local enactments, but to take positive affirmative action to realize for women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans full equal employment opportunity. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.