Senior Cloud Software Engineer

Description

Accurate, timely information is central to national security work, supporting situational awareness, strategic planning, and tactical operations. The company's Systems Development Division builds advanced technology that gives its customers an edge in the information domain. The division covers a solution from early concept and architecture through development to deployment, and uses new technologies to produce systems that have not been built before. Current programs include airborne and space RF work and advanced testing with multi-function, multi-modal capabilities.

In this role you will work with the software team to build Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for software that combines embedded RF systems, signal processing, and radar, with a main focus on Air-to-Air applications.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, maintain, tune, and run every stage of the DevSecOps process and its toolchain.
• Support pipelines in both unclassified and classified environments using a range of code quality tools.
• Set up and manage several development and DevOps environments at different classification levels, with attention to developer productivity, application performance, security monitoring, and alerting.
• Work with stakeholders to keep team infrastructure tools configured, maintained, and reliable, meeting program requirements and Department of Defense standards.
• Teach team members DevSecOps best practices and keep improving and automating processes.
• Find areas that need work and carry out the improvements.
• Write up the pipeline architecture, the tools, and the user steps needed to change and update pipelines.
• Promote DevOps and DevSecOps, and help the software team with tooling, environments, debugging, and testing.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen.
• You must be able to obtain a Top-Secret security clearance.
• You hold a BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• You have hands-on experience with DevSecOps pipelines, preferably on a DoD development effort.
• You have worked with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure in an IL4, IL5, or IL6 environment.
• You are proficient with build, continuous integration, and continuous deployment tools such as Bazel, CMake, GCC, GitLab, Jenkins, GTest, GCov, clang-tools, and others.
• You are comfortable working in Linux and Windows.
• You have experience with containers such as Docker, WSL, and podman, and with orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Swarm, and Rancher.
• You are familiar with security scanning tools such as SonarQube, Coverity, Syft, Grype, Artifactory Xray with advanced Security, Semgrep, and Anchore, and with secure design, coding, and analysis practices.
• You are familiar with IT configuration and deployment tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Terraform.
• You are familiar with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk.
• You understand networking concepts and security protocols, and can configure and manage network security for development environments and tooling.
• You write strong scripts to automate tasks, and you can maintain, document, and integrate tooling.
• You know automation frameworks and tools that cut repetitive work and manage complex workflows.
• You are familiar with Atlassian Confluence, Jira, and MS Office 365.
• Even Better:
• Active security clearance.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• Domain expertise in one or more of: Electronic Warfare, Antenna Apertures, Sensor Resource Management, Large-Scale Platform Test Systems, Cyber Physical Systems, or Open System Architectures (UCI, OMS, COARPS).
• Demonstrated expertise in C++, C++/Cuda, Python, or Java.
• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming principles, Agile software lifecycle methods and tools, and test-driven development.

Conditions

This is a full-time position.

The salary range is $138,000 to $185,000. It is based on external market data, and the final offer depends on factors such as experience, education, training, key skills, security clearances, and current market and business conditions.

The company is growing and has offices near Boston, MA; Arlington, VA; Dayton, OH; Melbourne, FL; Carlsbad, CA; Atlanta, GA; and Denver, CO. It does advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in cyber, next-generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, electronic warfare, and AI analytics.

The team works in a collaborative environment that supports deep technical learning and recognizes what each person contributes. The work is demanding.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and hires based on qualifications without regard to protected characteristics.

Positions require national security clearances and compliance with export control and other applicable laws.