Hybrid DevOps Software Engineer – Top Secret

at Xcelerate Solutions

• Job title: DevOps Software Engineer – Top Secret
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Docker, ElasticSearch, ETL, Java, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, Microservices, Postgres, Python, PyTorch, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bethesda, United States

About the role

• Cleared Software Engineer developing software solutions in a DevSecOps environment for biometric systems. Collaborating with cross-functional teams on various engineering tasks and software enhancements.

Responsibilities

• Work in a DevSecOps environment to ensure availability of the biometric system and data to end users.
• Oversee the integration, maintenance, and monitoring of software to ensure constant availability of all technical resources, and provide technical direction to IT support staff.
• Develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements.
• Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
• Designs, implements, and integrates software applications or performs software engineering tasks to include making enhancements to the existing system and operational support to diagnose and/or correct any system abnormalities.
• Utilizes software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development, integration, and production environment.
• Participate in test, staging and production deployment.
• Assist in the maintenance of services and procedures for a big data pipeline which includes Kafka, Elasticsearch, and several in-house written python/java micro services running on Kubernetes.
• Develop and integrate Docker containers to be deployed to Kubernetes.
• Monitor automated system integration tests to identify failed modules and components.
• Manage individual project priorities, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Update project documentation for each release.
• Provide tasking and time estimates for each Program Increment.
• Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members with the goal of providing quality service and product to our customers.

Requirements

• Typically requires Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain Poly.
• Experience with containerization, especially with Docker.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices, especially Gitlab or Jenkins.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience with API Development.
• Experience in Extraction, Transformation, and Load (ETL).
• Experience enterprise search capabilities (such as Elasticsearch) to solve Big Data challenges.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL server.
• Experience with Agile practices.
• Hands-on development and/or scripting experience, especially Python and Bash in Linux environment.
• Proficiency with Linux server management and developing tools optimized for a Linux or cross-platform operation environment.
• Familiarity and experience creating, deploying, and maintaining service worker and manager nodes/pods in a Kubernetes environment (kubectl).
• Experience leveraging CUDA, PyTorch, or other services to deploy containerized processing on GPUs.
• Understanding of application-level security.
• Knowledge of logging and log analysis systems.
• Proficiency in C# programming, with the ability to understand, maintain, and contribute to applications built on these languages and their respective frameworks.
• Experience with creating and managing microservices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Enthusiastic with the ability to work well in a team and a self-starter who can work on their own.

Benefits

• Xcelerate’s culture is defined by our diversified workforce of dynamic and versatile professionals, supported with growth and development opportunities that contribute to individual and company growth.
• This strong commitment to our employees has been recognized by our inclusion on the Washington Business Journal’s “50 Best Places to Work” list as well as being a “Great Place to Work” certified company with a 4.6 star, and a 99% CEO approval Glassdoor rating.
• Xcelerate Solutions is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, equal pay, disability, veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or expression of another protected characteristic.
• As part of this commitment to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals, Xcelerate provides reasonable accommodations if needed because of an applicant's or an employee's disability.