Location: Ft. Meade, MD
Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly
People Centered. Data Driven
Elder Research Inc. is a Data Science consulting firm specialized in providing analytic solutions to clients in Commercial and Government industries. Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies across numerous industries, our team enjoys a great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools.
We are trusted advisors to our clients, building lasting relationships and partnering as preferred analytics providers. We use a variety of programming languages and tools to create analytic solutions, often fitting within our clients’ environment and needs.
Join our team and find great opportunities to hone your analytic skills, work on complex problems with amazing teammates, and gain valuable analytics consulting experience.
Summary Of Position
We are looking at hiring talented and motivated junior Cloud Engineers to develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse Big-Data cloud systems based upon documented requirements. You will provide expertise in cloud computing Eco-Systems, including implementing applications, distributed computing, Information Retrieval, and Object-Oriented Design. Our employees in these positions will review and test software components for adherence to the design requirements and document test results, resolve software problem reports, and provide specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, and use of Commercial Off the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off- the-shelf (GOTS).
Required Skills
- 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 discover and exploit social networks.
- Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, data element dictionaries, software application program interfaces and other technical specifications.
- Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
- Understanding of Cloud Scalability. Hadoop/Cloud Certification. LDAP protocol configuration management and cluster performance management (e.g. Nagios).
Qualifications
- 5 years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
- 4 years of experience with high level languages such as Java, C, C++.
- 3 years of experience developing software for Windows (2000, 2003, XP, Vista), or UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.
- 3 years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.
- Ability to work with Open Source products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, CloudBase/Acumulo, Big Table, etc.
- Demonstrated work experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc) and experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System
- Work experience with Serialization such as JSON and/or BSON
- Work experience developing Restful services
- Work experience in the requirements analysis and design of at least one Object Oriented system
- Work experience developing solutions integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products
- Technical Writing skills in support of a software development project
Desired
- 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 discover and exploit social networks Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, data element
About Elder Research, Inc
Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business over 20 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.
Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.
Elder Research believes in continuous learning; each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” followed by an office lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others.
Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Elder Research is a Government contractor and our positions require US Citizenship.
