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Swift

Cloud Developer

Swift, Herndon, VA


The Swift Group is looking for a Cloud Developer to support data acquisition, exploitation, engineering, and management tasks. Responsibilities include direct operational support by facilitating data gathering in highly technical situations and participating in data exchanges with internal and external subject matter experts (SMEs). These include complex in-person data engineering and data science tasks with minimal or no access to online reference materials, providing engineering design and implementation of data triage capabilities, and providing technical expertise to support the development of the overarching data acquisition and exploitation strategy.

Required Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Significant demonstrated Cloud Engineering/ Architecture experience
    • IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation)
    • Automated Virtual Machines
    • AWS (EC2, S3 and VPC API)
    • Puppet, Salt or Chef
    • Containerization with Docker
  • Demonstrated on-prem experience with the following:
    • Demonstrated understanding of networking fundamentals, VPNs, automated use of various cloud vendor's virtual private server as might be used in the construction of runtime defined network connectivity.
    • Experience developing automated provisioning of Linux operating systems with security hardening.
    • Experience with various hardware profiles to include multiple makes of laptop, desktop computers
    • Experience mirroring Linux operating system installers and their corresponding package repositories.
    • Demonstrated experience as a full stack developer, including frontend and backend development with technology stacks such as SpringBoot, Django, Flask, Angular, jQuery, or React.
    • Demonstrated experience with backend database and search systems such as Elasticsearch, JanusGraph, DataStax Graph, PostgreSQL, Mysql/MariaDB, SQLite.
    • Demonstrated experience using programming languages such as Java, Python, Shell Scripting (bash), Javascript.
    • Demonstrated experience using software engineering utilities such as Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, git, and Docker.
    • Demonstrated experience in the software development lifecycle, and delivering within DevOps toolsets.
    • Demonstrated experience with development in AWS, on-prem and standalone environments.
    • Demonstrated experience with development leveraging cloud data services (such as S3, RDS, SNS, SQS).
  • BA/BS Degree or five additional years' experience in lieu of a degree
  • US Citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required


The Swift Groups is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.