Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Acuity, Inc. seeks dynamic, self-motivated individuals with experience as a Cloud Engineer. The client applies technical resources to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open source data, information, and insights. The client requires application development support to maintain and enhance an existing social media data exploitation platform. You will work within an existing team environment. The work will include developing enhancements to an existing service-based web application.

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, 2024) and "Top Workplaces" by Washington Post (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025).

Responsibilities

What you'll be doing:

• Shall design, implement, and optimize backend services in NodeJs and Typescript.
• Shall develop and maintain ETL workflows to handle large-scale datasets.
• Shall ensure performance, scalability, and reliability under high demand conditions.
• Shall collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Shall coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements.
• Shall apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously deliver high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.
• Shall ensure all application security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity to maintain security accreditation.
• Shall support data engineering efforts to analyze large data sets to derive data relationships.
• Shall maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot various codebases deployed in a multi-cloud environment.
• Shall maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, hardware and networks.
• Shall manage and mitigate IT security vulnerabilities and apply security controls.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with the design, implementation, and optimization of backend services in NodeJs and Typescript.
• Demonstrated experience with strings in development and large-scale data processing.
• Demonstrated experience building and optimizing ETL pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining ETL workflows to handle large-scale datasets.
• Demonstrated experience working in a fast paced, fluid, and dynamic environment, working with cross functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience ensuring system performance, scalability, and reliability under high demand conditions.

Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with Apache NiFi.
• Demonstrated experience monitoring system performance and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing software, hardware, and networks.
• Demonstrated experience working within cloud computing environments (AWS), Linux, and Unix-based operating systems.
• Demonstrated experience in platform and application automated deployment.
• Demonstrated experience using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.
• Demonstrated experience using requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Demonstrated experience implementing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud deployment, DevOps, containerization, web service and API management, and computing optimization.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud database, storage, virtualization, and network configurations.

Clearance Requirements:

• TS/SCI w/Poly

About Acuity:

Acuity, Inc. 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 and SmartCEO Corporate Culture awards.

Why Choose Acuity?

• Innovative Excellence: Recognized by The Washington Post's "Top Workplaces" and a nine-time recipient of the Washington Business Journal's "Best Places to Work," Acuity fosters an environment where innovation thrives and employees flourish.
• Competitive Compensation: We value our employees and show it through highly competitive compensation and benefits packages.
• Personal Growth: Your potential isn't just recognized at Acuity, it's actively cultivated. With tailored training, mentorship, and cutting-edge resources, we empower you to thrive personally and professionally.
• Recognition and Visibility: Stand out in a competitive industry with Acuity's exceptional customer feedback and robust opportunity channels.
• Collaborative Culture: At Acuity, teamwork isn't just a buzzword – it's the cornerstone of our success. Encouragement and support fuel our collaborative culture, where every voice matters.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Diversity isn't just a checkbox – it's who we are. At Acuity, we pride ourselves on recruiting and maintaining a workforce that celebrates diversity and treats every employee with dignity and respect.

Join Acuity, where your talents are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is amplified. Together, let's shape the future of digital strategy and technology consulting.

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.