Systems Architect

SUMMARY Cypher Intelligence LLC is seeking a Systems Architect to support a cleared program in McLean, VA.DUTIES, TASKS, & RESPONSIBILITIES The Sponsor has a requirement for systems support. Lines of effort shall include direct operational support by facilitating data gathering in highly technical situations, providing engineering design and implementation of data triage capabilities, and providing technical expertise to support the development of the Sponsor’s overarching data acquisition and exploitation strategy. The Team will perform end-to-end quality assurance of data feeds and data sets, and provide engineering support for data triage and assessment. The Systems Architect will identify and document areas for improvement in workflows or systems, attend regular stand-up meetings, and provide input to code reviews. The team will support related infrastructure and application development initiatives and support monitoring, alerting, and reporting out (e.g. dashboards). The Systems Architect will research and document options for collecting or aggregating data from a variety of web based and internal Sponsor platforms and evaluate web based platforms’ ability to detect or deny access. They will also make recommendations on approaches to acquire information.REQUIRED EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, & TECHNOLOGIES – Active/current TS/SCI with Polygraph – Demonstrated experience with large distributed data systems such as Hadoop. – Demonstrated experience with cloud infrastructure. – Demonstrated experience with network architecture, including knowledge of Linux, cluster, and cloud computing capabilities, especially the Hadoop ecosystem and related distributed technologies such as Kafka and Presto. – Programming skills in multiple compiled and interpreted languages including Java, Python, Perl, C, and C++. – Demonstrated experience with multiple OS environments including Windows, Linux, and MacOS. – Demonstrated experience with cloud environments such as AWS. – Demonstrated experience with data management tools such as SQL. – Demonstrated experience with cloud, data management, and development environments including AWS, HDFS, Cloudera, Spark, Presto, and SQL.