Job Description
A division of Huntington Ingalls Industries
Who We Are

HII-Technical Solutions Division (HII-TSD) is currently seeking a Software Engineer in Springfield, VA. The Software Engineer would be a member of a team of "big data" specialists who build capabilities that directly support intelligence personnel who sole purpose is support to operations.

What We Offer:

• An opportunity to work with a premier team of intelligence and technology professionals.
• To establish a true legacy by building applications that will usher in a new era of analytics capabilities.
• The ability to work within an organization where the fruits of your labor will directly support operations whose efficacy has actual national security implications.
• Access to peerless platform and a trove of data that is diverse, massive, and relevant.
• The ability to see firsthand the difference between being truly part of something great rather than simply having a job.

• Work with Systems Engineers to ensure that data is effectively received, processed, and postured.
• Work with Data Scientists to ensure that data quality and confidence meet standards sufficient for effective data utilization.
• Work with intelligence professionals to build and deliver a premier suite of analytics capabilities.
• A passion for the design, development, documentation, testing, and fielding of applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
• The ability to collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems.
• A genuine desire to support intelligence professionals in identifying and developing against user needs of the highest priority.
• Creativity, curiosity, and an appreciation for data science.

• Familiarity with operating systems including: UNIX, Linux, Windows, etc.
• Machine learning, data mining, and knowledge discovery
• Analytic algorithm design and implementation
• ETL processes; including document parsing techniques
• Using or designing RESTful APls, SOAP, XML
• Developing large cloud software projects, preferably in Java, Python, or C++
• Java/J2EE, multithreaded and concurrency systems
• Multi-threaded, big data, distributive cloud architectures and frameworks including Hadoop, MapReduce, Cloudera, Hive, Spark, Elasticsearch, etc. for the purposes of conducting analytic algorithm design and implementation
• NoSQL database such as Neo4J, Titan, Mongo, Cassandra, and hBase
• AWS Services (EC2, Network, ELB, S3/EBS, etc.)
• Experience with or desire to be part of a team involved with processing and managing large data sets (multi-TB scale strongly desired, multi-PB scale is a huge bonus)
• Web services environment and technologies such as JSON, XML, KML, and SOAP
• Proficiency in troubleshooting in very complex distributed environments including following stack traces back to code and identifying a root cause
• Data transfer systems such NiFi
• Current Agile methods
• Management/tracking utilities such as GitLab/GitHub, Jira, Redmine, or similar

• COMPTIA Security+ certification or CISSP
• Distributed computing
• Agile and/or Scrum

• Running internet facing or Service Level Agreement (SLA'd) auto-deployed environments
• Real-time media protocols (Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP))
• Text processing: NPL, NER, entity retrieval (e.g. Solr/Lucene), topic extraction, summarization, clustering, etc.

• Special Operations Forces or comparable operational element.
• Intelligence professionals.