Senior Cloud Software Engineer - SOCEUR

Description

This is a senior role on the HTAP program team, focused on designing, building and maintaining scalable software for a mission-critical, cloud-native system on Google Cloud Platform.

You will turn complex mission needs into dependable, reusable and secure tools and subsystems, and you will analyse problem domains and propose new technical approaches.

You will set best practices across the software development lifecycle and work closely with data scientists, DevSecOps engineers and mission owners.

The work supports an analytics environment used by Allied, partner and US operations.

This is a full-time position in Information Technology, offered as a Regular-Short-Term Assignment, under the title Senior Cloud Software Engineer - SOCEUR.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, resilient and secure software tools and microservices for a cloud-native environment.
• Lead the design of software subsystems, encourage code reuse and set technical standards for the engineering team.
• Create and integrate custom APIs, including APIs that expose AI/ML model outputs to enterprise applications.
• Deploy and run cloud-native infrastructure, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters and Confidential Compute instances, using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate building, testing and deploying software.
• Set up and manage thorough monitoring, logging and alerting with Google Cloud's operations suite to keep systems healthy and performing well.
• Work with security teams on regular security patches, vulnerability fixes and secure coding practices.
• Mentor junior engineers, lead code reviews and keep technical documentation clear and high quality.

Requirements

• Required: You must be a US citizen holding an active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Required: A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Required: A DoD 8570.01-M / DoD 8140 IAT Level II baseline certification or higher, such as CompTIA Security+ or CISSP.
• Required: At least 8+ years of professional software development, including at least 5+ years designing and building scalable distributed systems.
• Required: At least 3+ years leading project design or technical architecture in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• Required: Strong skill in scripting and programming languages such as Python, Go, Java or Bash.
• Required: Deep hands-on experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration, including managing container registries such as Artifact Registry or Harbor.
• Required: Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitLab CI or Jenkins.
• Required: Solid understanding of cloud networking (VPCs, firewall rules, load balancing) and security principles on GCP.
• Required: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer certification.
• Required: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.
• Desired: A master's degree or PhD in engineering, computer science or a related technical field.
• Desired: Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.
• Desired: Experience with big data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark or Apache Airflow.

Conditions

Full-time position, offered as a Regular-Short-Term Assignment.

Travel of up to 10%, within the continental US.

The base salary range is $126,100 - 277,300 USD. Final pay depends on factors such as location, Federal Government contract labor categories and wage rates, relevant experience, skills, education and certifications.

The company supports a healthy balance between quality work and personal life.

Benefits

• Relocation support: moving expenses to relocate your household from CONUS to Stuttgart, Germany.
• Dependent education support.
• Living Quarters Allowance (LQA).
• Flexible time off that you can use as you need it.
• Access to learning resources for career development.
• Comprehensive benefits covering healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education and time off.