Cloud Engineer - SME

Acuity, Inc. seeks dynamic, self-motivated individuals with experience as a Cloud Engineer - SME. 

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

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Demonstrated experience with modern, modular, event-driven micro-services architectures.
• Demonstrated experience deploying and operating service and applications in an Amazon AWS infrastructure environment (EC2, S3, RDS/PostgreSQL, NLB,), including experience with Ansible.
• Demonstrated experience using Python to develop web backend services.
• Demonstrated experience using Go to develop data processing services and web applications using Go Templates and a PostgreSQL database.
• Demonstrated experience developing web applications using ReactJS for front-end UI/UX.
• Demonstrated experience with NIST 800-53 security controls and the software accreditation process on secure networks.
• Demonstrated experience securing systems deployed on AWS including host security (Linux), networking and load balancing, and PKI.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS Services.
• Demonstrated experience with Ansible and Cloud Formation scripts.
• Demonstrated experience with log management, Amazon AWS networking, AWS hosts (Linux), and general micro-services architectures.
• Demonstrated experience with software written in JavaScript (NodeJS), Python, and Go.
• Demonstrated experience with diagnosing problems with systems deployed to AWS.
• Demonstrated experience working with Linux-based host systems, including command line operations.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining web services using Python, REST APIs, and JSON data.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Demonstrated experience with Go HTML Templates and AlpineJS/htmx JavaScript libraries.
• Demonstrated experience with Cloud Formation in AWS.
• Demonstrated experience deploying and operating Python-based ML libraries and services.
• Demonstrated experience with the Client security processes.

Clearance Requirements:

• TS/SCI w/Poly

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”, Washington Post’s “Top Workplace”, 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.