is seeking a motivated
Software Engineer to support daily operations and collaborate with cross functional teams to troubleshoot complex issues and maintain high system availability.
This DevOps SWE is in an extremely customer-facing role, leading multi-faceted, mission-critical system development, deployment and evolution.
Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:- Focus on the development, deployment, and administration of complex systems using C++ or Python, Kubernetes, and GPU technologies.
- Responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of our satellite communication systems, from development to deployment, and will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure software meets user requirements.
- Develop and maintain applications using Python
- Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications with Docker.
- Design and optimize database solutions with MongoDB.
- Collaborate with team members using Git for version control and code reviews.
- Ensure smooth CI/CD processes and participate in the full software development lifecycle.
- Participate in code reviews and provide feedback.
- Provide on-site technical support, including diagnosing and resolving issues with hardware, applications, and user environments.
- Perform system administration tasks as needed to maintain operational stability across multiple locations.
Required Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university and Seven (7) years' experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
- Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Preferred Qualifications:- Kubernetes cluster design, deployment, and lifecycle management
- Specifically Rancher, RKE2 implementation
- Controle plane component configuration and troubleshooting
- Worker node management, configuration, and lifecycle automation
- Workload management (scheduling, affinity, resources, scaling)
- High-availability cluster configuration
- Cluster monitoring, networking, storage (storage classes, PVC, PC) and integration with external storage systems
- Kubernetes security concepts and implementation (RBAC, service accounts, secrets, certificate management, policy engines)
- Helm Familiarity
- CKA certification is a plus
- Kubernetes application development/deployment principles
- CNCF projects/tools
- Devops principles
- GitOps/Builds/Pipelines
- Networking experience (Switching, routing, VLANs)
- Advanced Linux Experience (RHEL/Rocky/EL9)
- Operating system configuration and troubleshooting
- Service management
- Hardening
- PXE boot and automated OS deployment
- Ansible experience
- Playbook design
- Role development
- Ansible collection creation and management
- Development and Scripting
- Python familiarity
- Bash scripting experience
- Go (desired)
- YAML and JSON manipulation
- Git workflows
- Knowledge/experience with software unit testing
- Stakeholder communication and requirements gathering
- Presenting technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- RF data processing and application development familiarity
Security Clearance:- TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
BENEFITS:- Competitive salary
- Company Medical/Dental/Vision plans - Company paid
- Short-term Disability, Long-term disability and Life Insurance - Company paid
- Business/ First Class travel upgrade for 7 hour or longer flights & company card will be provided for expenses
- Vacation / Personal days granted at 25 days per year
- Paid Federal Holidays - 11 days
- $5,000 Annual Professional Development Fund plus 40 paid hours if in class
- 401K with 6% company match; all contributions are immediately vested by Employee
- Employee will be paid a bonus of $10,000 per employee hired based on their referral
- Up to 3 paid Code Red days due to customer closure
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