Software Engineer 3

Contract (12 months)

Published 4 days ago

Position Responsibilities:

1. Support Agile development teams to deliver an end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in a cloud environment. Decompose complex requirements and capabilities into executable discrete user stories.
2. Perform Windows and Linux system administration.
3. Use a variety of scripting and automation technologies including bash, groovy, python, terraform, ansible, helm, docker to configure development, testing, and production environments.
4. Employ GitOps techniques and tooling (e.g. ArgoCO, Flux, Fleet) to declaratively manage environments.
5. Deploy, configure, monitor, troubleshoot, upgrade, and maintain Kubernetes clusters (microk8s, rke2, rancher) and microservice deployments.
6. Deploy, configure, monitor, troubleshoot, upgrade, and maintain a wide variety of CI/CD and Agile Team tooling including JFrog Artifactory, Nexus Repository, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bitbucket, SonarQube, Confluence, Jira, and similar tools.
7. Perform tasks across a wide spectrum of environments including AWS, DoD Private Clouds, and on-premise data centers.
8. Work together with program vendors, development teams, and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
9. Demonstrate excellent collaboration, communication, and coordination skills.
10. Be positive with a growth mindset, embracing collaboration, challenges, and ambiguity in a complex technical environment.

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

This position is expected to be on-site in Colorado Springs 3+ days a week using a hybrid approach.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

1. 7 or more years of professional software development and broad engineering experience.
2. 5 or more years of software development experience with a backend programming language such as Python, C++, Java, or C#.
3. 2 or more years of experience with microservice architectures utilizing Kubernetes for container orchestration.
4. 2 or more years of experience using automation tools (e.g. Docker, Terraform, and Ansible) to deploy/configure infrastructure and applications.
5. Experience with logging (e.g. Elasticsearch, Splunk) and performance analysis (e.g. Kibana, Grafana) tools.
6. Experience with Identity Management and PKI Integration.
7. Experience with Continuous Delivery/Deployment pipelines and concepts.
8. Experience working in an Agile or Kanban software development environment utilizing the Atlassian Suite for documentation and project management.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

1. A passion for distributed systems and microservice architectures.
2. Experience with complex systems containing many integrated components.
3. Experience with open-source software development.
4. Experience with fine-tuning Kubernetes and the underlying host OS for optimal performance in a low-latency environment.
5. Experience troubleshooting software and network integration during platform deployments.
6. Proven ability to plan, schedule, and deliver quality software.
7. Experience and ability to support Government security requirements and best practices for software delivery involving system accreditation.