Software Engineer

Additional Information

• Requires Bachelors Degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience

• Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph

• Experience with containerization especially with Docker

• Experience with DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices especially Gitlab or Jenkins

• At least 8 years of experience with the following:

  • Python

  • API development

• Experience in Extraction Transformation and Load (ETL)

• Experience with enterprise search capabilities (such as Elasticsearch) to solve Big Data challenges

• Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL server

• Experience with Agile practices

• Hands-on development and/or scripting experience especially Python and Bash in Linux environment

• Experience with AWS cloud-based architecture services (Lambda etc.) and software development

• Experience with Artifactory

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Enthusiastic with the ability to work well in a team and a self-starter who can work on their own

Mandatory Skills

• Requires Bachelors Degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience

• Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph

• Experience with containerization

An exciting opening for you as our next TS/SCI w/ CI Polygraph cleared Software Engineer supporting a long-term DIA-NEMC DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. You will work closely with Systems Engineers Software Engineers Architects and Operations Engineering/Manager on a broad scope of activities extending across the development of systems to include middle-tier and backend engineering tasks.

Have impact as part of a mission focused solutions oriented and adaptive team that values innovation collaboration and professional development. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda MD we offer a flexible schedule and occasionally some tasks may be performed remotely. The percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop maintain and enhance complex and diverse software systems (e.g. processing-intensive analytics novel algorithm development manipulation of extremely large data sets real-time systems and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements

• Provide specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs software reuse use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components

• Design implement and integrate software applications or perform software engineering tasks

• Utilize software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development integration and production environment

• Participate in test staging and production deployment

• Assist in the maintenance of services and procedures for a big data pipeline which includes Kafka Elasticsearch and several in-house written Python/Java micro services running on Kubernetes

• Develop and integrate Docker containers to be deployed to Kubernetes

• Monitor automated system integration tests to identify failed modules and components

• Manage individual project priorities deliverables and deadlines

• Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members in the goal of providing quality service and product to our customers

Required Skills

• Requires Bachelors Degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience

• Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph

• Experience with containerization especially with Docker

• Experience with DevOps practices and tools including CI/CD tools and practices especially Gitlab or Jenkins

• At least 8 years of experience with the following:

  • Python

  • API development

• Experience in Extraction Transformation and Load (ETL)

• Experience with enterprise search capabilities (such as Elasticsearch) to solve Big Data challenges

• Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL server

• Experience with Agile practices

• Hands-on development and/or scripting experience especially Python and Bash in Linux environment

• Experience with AWS cloud-based architecture services (Lambda etc.) and software development

• Experience with Artifactory

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Enthusiastic with the ability to work well in a team and a self-starter who can work on their own

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)

• Active Security certification

• Active CE certification

• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification by the Government

• GraphQL Service

• Apache NiFi

• Experience with systems at scale

• Kafka or other message passing systems

• Experience with a production/enterprise system

• Appian low-code application development platform

• Experience with any of the following technologies:

  • GPU-based Kubernetes

  • SALT for deployment automation

  • Elasticsearch Kibana and Logstash