6 months ago
Annapolis Junction, MD, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-scale data models, ontologies, and distributed systems.
- Architect, integrate, modernize, and evolve enterprise systems supporting mission operations, advanced analytics, and national security objectives.
- Design scalable backend systems and high-throughput data pipelines using Apache Kafka.
- Deploy and orchestrate containerized applications in Kubernetes and AWS cloud-native environments.
- Develop enterprise backend services in Java and Spring Boot and create documented APIs.
- Implement CI/CD automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Apply monitoring, observability, performance management, graph database, and distributed-systems practices.
- Translate business and operational requirements into technical specifications, architectural diagrams, and long-term platform strategies.
- Troubleshoot complex distributed-systems issues, mentor engineering teams, and communicate architecture to technical and executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph is required.
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline plus 20+ years of experience, or 25+ years of experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise ontologies, logical data models, graph models, semantic technologies, entity resolution, taxonomy management, and metadata tagging.
- Experience with Apache Kafka cluster management, topic configuration, message-key strategies, topic compaction, and performance tuning.
- Experience deploying containerized applications with Kubernetes, including CRDs, Operators, and cloud-native architectures in AWS.
- Experience with Java, Spring Boot, API development, OpenAPI/Swagger documentation, and enterprise backend services.
- Experience with CI/CD automation, Terraform or CloudFormation, and distributed enterprise systems engineering.
- Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Kafka clusters, graph databases, monitoring, observability, and performance management.
- Preferred experience with Neo4j, Cypher, APOC, Graph Data Science, OWL, RDF, social media sentiment analysis, data science, machine learning, and graph-based analytics.
Benefits
- The position is located in Annapolis Junction, Maryland.
- Projected base compensation is $100.96 to $115.38 per hour.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About EverWatch
EverWatch delivers government solutions and services in defense, intelligence, and deployed mission support for U.S. national security agencies. Its work spans systems engineering, software and cloud development, cybersecurity, and operations support performed under federal contracts for the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense. Headquartered in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, the company operates as a privately held provider focused on classified and mission-critical programs.