GD152 AWS Cloud Developer, Full Stack
Are you ready for an exciting career working at NASA?
Come work side by side with top developers and scientists developing Earth / Atmospheric Science data analysis and visualization tools. The tools you will help develop will be used by data analysts and researchers around the globe as well as benefit educational organizations.
At NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) we are committed to enabling scientific research by distributing over 1400 Earth Science data collections and providing useful tools to assist data analysis. We are currently looking for a cloud development engineer to help design, build and deploy a cloud infrastructure to host GES DISC data collections and services. The GES DISC Software Development Team works within a Data Center including a team of experts in Earth Science data informatics and Software Engineers to support a NASA Earth Science Data Center ( ) located in Greenbelt, MD.
The ADNET team is involved in supporting archive and distribution of Earth Science data from NASA Earth Science missions, development of online discovery and analysis applications (like ).
The successful candidate will have technical development responsibilities and help with design, coding, testing, integration and taking services to operations and delivery of applications based on infrastructure-as-code concepts. The ideal candidate must have experience and expertise with container-based architectures Docker and Kubernetes and with AWS server-less services (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, etc.) and managing resources through Infrastructure as Code (IaaC).
Duties/Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code within a cloud infrastructure to support our data collections and services.
- Contribute to continuous delivery and test-driven development.
- Help maintain code quality, organization and automation.
- Contribute to engineering best practices, processes and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to daily tech-related operations that evolve with platform architecture.
- Support deployments and infrastructure.
- Actively contribute to agile development process in a continuous development/continuous integration (CI/CD) framework.
- Collaborate with team members to plan, estimate, and write clear user stories / acceptance criteria, and communicate effectively using Slack, Teams, etc.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related IT, engineering, physical sciences field from an accredited institution.
- 2+ years of experience designing, deploying and maintaining cloud-based environments.
- Proven track record delivering high availability architectures including load balancing, fault-tolerance, and cloud computing (infrastructure as code, configuration management systems).
- Strong experience with Docker, Terraform, and AWS.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Familiarity with geospatial data collections is a plus.
- Passion for and/or previous experience working with environmental data to help solve the climate crisis.
- US Citizenship or Permanent Residency (LPR) required, with US residency for the past 3 consecutive years.
Come, reach for the stars with NASA!
ADNET Systems, Inc. is an employee-centric company, committed to providing premier benefits that support our employees and their families. With affordable medical and dental plans coupled with leading disability and life insurance options, ADNET offers our employees the benefits most sought after by today's professional candidates.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Annual Leave/Sick Leave
- Military and Family Emergency Leave
- Paid Holidays
- Performance Bonuses
- Medical, Dental and Vision Plans
- Direct Deposit Payroll
- 401K Plan with Company Matching and Immediate Vesting
- Tuition Reimbursement for training and career development
- Swag bags