Cloud Software Engineer

Enlighten, an Alion company is looking for talented Cloud Software Engineers (at all levels) to design, develop and implement complicated and difficult software capabilities for computer based systems. Candidate must have a strong working knowledge and experience developing cloud software based capabilities. Candidate should have an inquisitive nature, responsiveness, and excellent testing skills. Must also possess strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work under pressure with multiple deadlines. Will work in a fast paced, small business environment with our talented team.

Security Clearance:
• A current government clearance, background investigation, and polygraph are highly desired. If no current clearance, must be eligible to obtain a government security clearance and therefore all candidates must be a U.S. Citizen.

Required Skills:
• Bachelor's degree in technical discipline (i.e. computer science, engineering, mathematics, etc.) or equivalent experience.

Will consider any candidate that has the tool set below with 5+ years of experience as we need support on all levels.
• Experience in streaming and/or batch analytics (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Flink, Storm, MapReduce, Hadoop)
• Experience in distributed databases, NoSQL databases, full text-search engines (e.g. Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Solr)
• Experience in designing enterprise APIs
• Experience in RESTful web services
• Experience in Microservices architecture
• Experience in Object Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigms
• Experience in cloud based technologies (AWS, Azure)
• Experience in Modern Java Frameworks and Libraries (e.g. Spring, Guava)
• Experience with the Linux operating system
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Git, Nexus, Maven)
• Experience with the agile software lifecycle
• Has a proven ability to learn quickly and works well both independently as well as in a team setting

Desired Skills:
• Scripting experience is a huge plus.