Sr. Cloud Ops & Application Developer in Washington, District of Columbia at Educology Solutions

SUMMARY

MUST HAVE SECRET CLEARANCE

The Senior Cloud DevOps and Application Developer will design, develop, operate, secure, and sustain Global ECCO’s cloud-hosted strategic-exercise applications and associated exercise-coordination capabilities. The individual will manage the Amazon Web Services environment; develop and maintain Java- and Node.js-based applications; support integrations delivered by external developers; and provide technical support for live exercise facilitation.

The position also maintains an offline, field-deployable version of the strategic-exercise system; documents changes; trains Government team members as requested; resolves operational issues; and reports project status to the Technical Point of Contact.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Cloud DevOps and Application Developer will:

Develop and maintain the production Global ECCO online strategic-exercise application.

Configure, automate, operate, and sustain AWS infrastructure supporting the application environment.

Develop and maintain Global ECCO exercise-coordination software and supporting server-side applications.

Integrate new and reskinned exercises developed by external teams, ensuring compatibility with existing infrastructure and application services.

Support exercise facilitation activities by creating temporary user accounts, scaling services for expected participation, and resolving technical-check issues before events.

Develop and maintain a functional offline, field-deployable strategic-exercise capability.

Troubleshoot end-user issues, provide written responses and estimated resolution timelines, and implement corrective actions.

Store and manage source code in the designated NPS GitLab version-control environment.

Provide application documentation and user training; report changes through Microsoft Teams when requested.

Attend weekly and biweekly meetings prepared to provide application demonstrations, status updates, testing results, risks, work-in-progress, and short-term objectives.

Prepare and submit a monthly status report summarizing updates, completed work, work in progress, near-term goals, and other relevant project information.

Support an orderly transition of services at the conclusion of contract performance, option periods, or extensions.

These responsibilities align with the SOW’s required development, AWS management, facilitation support, documentation, offline deployment, issue resolution, meeting attendance, and reporting activities.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a closely related technical discipline.

At least five years of experience integrating internet applications in AWS using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).

At least five years of Java application-development experience.

At least five years of Node.js development experience.

At least five years of AWS service-automation experience.

Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with application developers and infrastructure stakeholders to maintain system interoperability.

U.S. citizenship.

Ability to obtain and maintain the required DoD/Navy access credentials, including CAC eligibility and required system-access approvals.

Ability to obtain and maintain a favorably adjudicated investigation appropriate to the assigned system-access designation, at minimum as required for an IT-II
on-critical sensitive position when applicable.

Ability to complete annual Cyber Awareness training and comply with all Government information-security, Privacy Act, and contractor-identification requirements.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience supporting live, distributed online exercises, simulations, or collaboration platforms.

Experience deploying applications to disconnected, denied, intermittent, or limited-bandwidth environments.

Experience administering AWS environments with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment pipelines.

Experience with GitLab source control, technical documentation, and end-user training.

Experience supporting DoD or Navy IT environments and associated access-control procedures.