This position is eligible for remote work.
Summary
IDEMIA National Security Solutions is seeking a Software Systems Integration Engineer with a well-rounded engineering background in Linux systems, platform operations, infrastructure automation, DevOps, and systems integration. This role supports the deployment, automation, modernization, monitoring, and sustainment of mission-critical biometric and identity management systems. The successful candidate will support customer environments requiring infrastructure automation, automated software deployments, and CI/CD pipeline operations across development, test, and production environments.
Location: DC or Morgantown, WV preferred. Remote will be considered.
Primary Responsibilities
• Perform operations and maintenance (O&M) activities including troubleshooting, defect resolution, software updates, system monitoring, performance tracking, and operational support.
• Integrate software with biometric systems, identity management systems, enterprise applications, databases, hardware, and third-party products.
• Architect software and systems integration solutions across applications, databases, cloud services, hardware, and external systems.
• Support application deployment and lifecycle management using RPM-based deployment methodologies while contributing to the organization's transition toward containerized and cloud-native deployment architectures.
• Design, develop, and maintain automation solutions using Ansible, Infrastructure as Code, and scripting to support application installation, configuration management, patching, upgrades, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Administer and support Linux-based production, development, and test environments.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and release processes across development, test, and production environments to improve deployment reliability, consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with software engineering, systems engineering, and operations teams to improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency.
• Support platform reliability, capacity planning, system health monitoring, and incident response activities.
• Maintain software baselines, source code repositories, release artifacts, and configuration records in accordance with established configuration management processes.
• Support modernization initiatives including legacy platform transformation, containerization, Kubernetes adoption, and cloud-native deployment architectures through proof-of-concept, migration, and integration activities.
• Document software architectures, system designs, interfaces, deployments, and implementation approaches.
• Develop operational documentation, deployment standards, and automation runbooks supporting both current-state and future-state platform architectures.
• Experience working in small teams.
• Ability to work multiple projects and problems in parallel.
• Ability and willingness to travel for some assignments.
• Occasional O&M support outside business hours.
Skills
• Programming Languages: Python, Shell/Bash, Scripting
• Operating Systems: Linux (CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
• Cloud Technologies: AWS, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Deployment, Cloud Operations
• Integration Technologies: gRPC, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper
• Container Technologies: Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Configuration & Delivery Ansible, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Jenkins, Git, CI/CD pipeline development, automated deployments, configuration management
• Program Requirements: Agile
• Monitoring & Operations: System monitoring and alerting, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, log aggregation and analysis, performance monitoring
Required Experience
• Active Secret Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience with systems engineering, platform engineering, DevOps
• 2 years software engineering experience.
• Experience supporting Linux-based production systems.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated deployment solutions.
• Experience using Ansible in enterprise environments.
• Experience implementing or supporting system monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Experience troubleshooting infrastructure, deployment, and operational issues in production environments.
Relevant Experience
• Biometrics, image processing, computer vision, decision theory
• AWS
• Supporting Linux-based application deployments using RPM packages and configuration management tools.
• Developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks, roles, and deployment automation.
• Supporting enterprise monitoring and operational visibility solutions.
• Containerizing existing applications and services.
• Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.
• Migrating traditional application deployments toward containerized architectures.
• Implementing GitOps or modern platform engineering practices.
*****Must be a US Citizen, without Dual Citizenship*****
