Software Engineer

Acuity is growing and looking to hire an additional Software Engineer to support one of our premier federal clients. The Client has a requirement for software engineering in support of data acquisition, exploitation, engineering, and management tasks.

In return, Acuity Inc offers a great company culture with wonderful work/life balance and a robust compensation package which includes Health/Dental/Vision, up to $6K training & professional development benefit annually, 401K matching, corporate events/team-building and more!

Acuity was awarded "Best Places to Work" by the Washington Business Journal for over 8 years(2010 - 2014, 2015, 2017-2021, 2023) and "Top Workplaces" by Washington Post (2022, 2023). www.myacuity.com

What you 'll be doing:

Your lines of effort shall 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 Client’s overarching data acquisition and exploitation strategy. Your Priorities will be determined by the Client in close consultation with the project manager.

Required Skills:

• Cloud Experience:

• Experience with developing infrastructure as code (HashiCorp Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS Cloud Formation).
• Experience with automated virtual machine builds (HashiCorp Packer).
• Experience with AWS EC2, S3 (to include bucket policy creation), VPC APIs.
• Experience with Puppet.
• Experience with Salt, Chef, or other configuration management.
• Experience with Docker.

• On-prem Experience:

• 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 with Agile practices and methodologies.
• 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).

Clearance Requirements:

• TS/SCI w/Poly

About Acuity Inc

Acuity is a leading management and technology consulting firm that specializes in serving the federal government. Our innovative, collaborative and rewarding work environment has earned repeat honors from the Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work and SmartCEO Corporate Culture awards. 

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.