Orbis Operations is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to support its government customer in Fort Meade, MD.
Required Clearance: Active Security Clearance required at the Top Secret (TS)/Special Compartmented Information (SCI) level and appropriate level Polygraph
Role Description:Responsible for establishment and maintenance of system infrastructure in support of ITOS to include hardware, networking, operating system, databases, docker, Kubernetes, etc. Responsible for system ATO ensuring STE/STN compliance and establishment of Health and Status framework,. Coordinates with SE&A team and interfaces with customer. Familiar with 12-factor design methodology, COOP, DevOps best practices, FOSS, GOTS, CI/CD, gitOps with argoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, MongoDB Helm, Ansible, PostGres, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Redis
Responsibilities:- Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
- Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features and/or improve performance
- Debug existing software and correct defects
- Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
- Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
- Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
- Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
- Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components
- Write or review software and system documentation
- Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, confer with users or system engineers; analyze systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigate problem areas
- Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
- Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project, and delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance
- Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design
- Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries
- 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
- Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Perform quality control on team products
- 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 system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met
- Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
- Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering
- Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 20 years experience as a SWE OR
- 24 years of SWE experience
- Cloud Experience: 5 years demonstrated work experience with distributed scalable Big Data Store (NoSQL) such as Hbase, CloudBase/Acumulo, Big Table, etc.
- Demonstrated work experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.
- Demonstrated work experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
- Demonstrated work experience with Serialization such as JSON and/or BSON
