Data Driven Software Engineer

The Leidos Digital Modernization Sector seeks a Data Software Engineer with Elastic and Kafka experience to support the Innovations Group on our GSM-O II Program as a member of End to End Visualization Team. The Leidos Digital Modernization Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems solutions and services covering land sea air space and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT large-scale intelligence systems command and control geospatial and data analytics cybersecurity logistics training and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the worlds toughest security challenges for customers with cant fail missions.

Candidate must be within driving distance of Fort Meade or Scott AFB. At a minimum a Secret clearance is required upon the start of employment and within 14 days following the start date the employee must obtain their Security certification.

As a key End to End Visualization team member you will work as part of a fast paced Agile development and implementation team to architect design and develop data integration solutions (Extract Transform Load) to support a unified User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI) that provides a holistic single-pane-of-glass interface for an integrated solution on the Elastic platform. You will also work with operational end users and support teams to perform requirements analysis as well as design develop and demonstrate mockups and wireframes.

Primary Responsibilities

The successful candidate primary responsibility will:

• Researching designing developing and user-testing experiences and making strategic user-experience decisions while working closely with product owners engineers and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
• Create Kafka Elastic Logstash data pipelines and support Kibana visualizations and dashboards using React JavaScript and HTML.
• Design develop document test and deploy applications and prototypes in JavaScript HTML and CSS on the Elastic platform.
• Integrating ETL components with CI/CD build/deployment pipelines that use Cloudbees/Jenkins Artifactory OpenShift/Kubernetes Docker and Bitbucket.
• Designing development documenting testing and deploying applications.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a relevant technical discipline and 8 year of related experience obtained through any combination of coursework and internships.
• Must have a DoD Secret security clearance prior to start date.
• Ability to obtain Security certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 14 days of start date.
• Must be able to commute to Scott AFB IL Ft. Meade MD two/three times per week for on-site support.
• Software development experience with Python Java and SQL. Working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript.
• Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply principles theories and concepts of Software Engineering.
• Experience developing software on a UNIX command line platform.
• Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team.
• 6 years of demonstrable experience designing developing and deploying dashboards and reports using the Elastic stack including Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana and Beats.
• Experience in architecture design develop and delivery of data driven operations capabilities within a DoD environment.
• Experience using project management tools such as Jira and Confluence to document requirements acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Experience working with a highly technical team and in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives domain experts systems engineers and architects.
• Ability to work well/collaborate with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with and convey focused messages to stakeholders customers domain experts program managers and teammates.

Preferred Qualifications

• ETL Kafka/Elastic/Kibana Engineer.
• Experience with Kafka connector integrations custom connector development and an understanding of core concepts and working experience with ksqlDB and Kafka Streams
• Experience developing Kafka system integrations between Elasticsearch/Logstash and other systems.
• Experience with data Visualization and dashboards
• Knowledge with Elastic stack security features such as client authentication SSL/TLS configuration and role-based document filtering.
• Software design and development experience with JavaScript HTML CSS and JSON/REST APIs in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
• Experience developing building and deploying software using Bitbucket Git Jenkins Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).
• Experience with big data applications.
• Experience with cloud-based AWS services.
• Experience designing developing and deploying solutions using DevOps/DevSecOps concepts.
• Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus) including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards.
• Experience or familiarity with Agile development and testing methodology
• Experience with DISA and DoD Networks.
• Experience with big data applications
• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps Configuration as Code Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD implementation
• Understanding of network routing devices and network device configurations

Come break things (in a good way). Then build them smarter.

Were the tech company everyone calls when things get weird. We dont wear capes (theyre a safety hazard) but we do solve high-stakes problems with code caffeine and a healthy disregard for how its always been done.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.