DevOps Engineer with Security Clearance

Title: DevOps Engineer Location: Annapolis Junction, MD *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply
• Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S
Government
Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission
Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems
If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense
LCAT Description : The Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, documents, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements
These systems might include, but are not limited to, processing intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, business management information systems, and systems which incorporate data repositories, data transport services, and application and systems development and monitoring
Works individually or as part of a team
Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results
Resolves software problem reports
Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment
Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Open Source Software (OSS) and/or Commercial Off The-Shelf (COTS) Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) software in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components
Experience developing in Unix
Ability to perform shell scripting
Working knowledge of Configuration Management (CM) tools and Web Services implementation
The Level 3 Software Engineer (SWE) shall possess the following capabilities:
• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Debug existing software and correct defects.
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.
• Write or review software and system documentation.
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories.
• Software development using languages such as C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, etc.
• Has experience with agile development processes.
• Has experience with source code control systems, such as Git.
• Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project.
• Design and development of relational and non-relational database applications.
• Use of orchestration frameworks such as Spring and Kafka.
• Familiarization with queue management systems
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards.
• Develop and execute test procedures for software components.
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards and conferring with users or system engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem areas.
• Modify existing software to adapt to new hardware or to improve its performance
• Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design decisions
• Java development using the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
• Development of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications
• Experience using collaboration and software development tools (ie
Atlassian).
• Software development using continuous integration practices
• Experience with container technologies (ie
Docker).
• Unix shell scripting
• Development of event driven or data driven analytics
• Development of cloud-based solutions and technologies.
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints
Perform quality control on team products.
• Recommend and implement suggestions for improving documentation and software development process standards.
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project.
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces.
• Coordinate software installation on a system and monitor performance to ensure operational specifications are met.
• Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects.
• Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams.
• Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering.
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software.
• Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance
SWE-3 Qualifications : Masters degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university, plus five (5) years of experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity
OR Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university, plus seven (7) years of experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity OR Nine (9) years of experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity
Position Description The DevOps Engineer shall be responsible for implementing a Zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) solution as part of an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for complex High Performance Computing Systems
DevOps activities include requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and sustainment
The primary focus is integrating COTS and FOSS products, packages, and libraries
The DevOps Engineer must have a demonstrated understanding of the software development lifecycle
Position Required Skills
• Experience using the Linux CLI
• Experience with scripting using Bash/Python
• Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) principles and automation tools such as
• Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools such as GitLab CI and Jenkins
• Experience developing with multiple programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Go, and Python in a Linux environment
• Experience with software frameworks used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing big data such as Splunk and Elastic Stack
• Experience with SQL technologies such as MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
• Experience with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch
• Experience with designing, implementing, and using REST and/or RPC APIs
• Experience with Git Source Control System Position Desired Skills
• Experience with Messaging Frameworks such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, and RabbitMQ
• Experience with tools used for metrics visualization such as Grafana and Kibana
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
• Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Confluence)

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