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ALTA IT has a Long-Term Contract position open for a Cloud Developer. Washington DC 20006 - Remote with one day a week onsite Per Federal Govt Sector U.S Citizenship is required Ability to pass Federal background check is required for Level 4 Public Trust Clearance BACKGROUND: Cloud development work to support a few projects. Collection and Processing Pipeline Development, Database Development. Initial deployment of enterprise cloud-based systems. Work Experience: AWS cloud application development experience. Agile development experience. Experience building and deploying cloud applications with the Python language for backend services and Angular or React for front-end development. Must have expert knowledge (i.e., demonstrates comprehensive understanding and is viewed as a role model in applicable areas) in the following areas: cloud technology platforms, cloud tools/services, DevOps and database management. Must be able to lead one or more of the following: database management, programming, cloud security/recovery, and cloud-centric integration. Experience working as a developer writing Python code along with the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) required to deploy with either AWS CDK or Terraform. Experience modeling business process in AWS Step-Functions. Experience developing container-based applications utilizing REST Apis for web-based application written with either Angular or React in Typescript. Experience utilizing AWS CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail for logging events and audit messages, for operating in a highly regulated environment. The candidate will be responsible for remediation and unit testing of code when issues arise as part of the application development and user deployment process. Technical Skills: Hands on AWS development experience required GovCloud development experience helpful Python code development and workflow design using Airflow Full understanding of Python applications design, code structure, packaging and deployments Ability to write unit tests and use various mocking techniques Functional knowledge of Docker Experience with writing AWS Lambda functions, layer management and their deployment types (zip, Docker, etc.) Experience with designing Glue jobs using both Python Shell and PySpark Experience with SNS/SQL implementation techniques, event triggering (e.g., EventBridge) and Step Functions Understanding of logging in AWS Experience with database development and data migration (Postgres and Redshift) Experience in building/accessing Data Lakes using Glue/Athena/Redshift and building data access APIs Implementation of database/data lake granular access security, and access integration with Okta/Cognito M2