Software Engineer

5 days ago

Tennessee, TN, United States SGS Consulting Full-time

Job Responsibilities:

  • Researching, designing, implementing, and managing software programs.
  • Identifying areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently developing these modifications.
  • Determining operational practicality.
  • Documents testing, client experience and maintenance of system corrections.
  • May partner and collaborate with cyber security teams to ensure compliance with security standards.
  • May develop and conduct unit tests.
  • Support development of virtual testbed infrastructure software and automation tooling to run tests that evaluate IP networking and data sharing application performance.
  • Contribute to the design and development of a test orchestration framework that integrates existing tools for virtual machine management and network emulation to enable large-scale virtual system-level evaluation.
  • Extend and build network emulation capabilities as needed using Linux networking features to model virtual networks.
  • Help execute tests, collect data, debug anomalies, and analyze results.

Skills:

  • Familiarity with communication systems and abstraction layers (TCP/IP, OSI models)
  • Experience using Linux networking capabilities, tools, and advanced features
  • Experience with Python (or similar programming language such as C++, Java, etc) software development, bash/POSIX shell scripting, and git workflows
  • Understanding of layer-2 Ethernet switching
  • Understanding of layer-3 IP routing
  • Experience running containerized software and VMs, such as Kubernetes, Docker etc
  • Experience with automated complex software provisioning, deployment, and configuration management
  • Experience with commercial and/or open-source routers
  • Network performance data collection and analysis experience
  • Experience with data visualization frameworks (Grafana or similar tools)

Education/Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree