About the position
Xcelerate Solution is seeking you as our next TS/SCI cleared Appian Software Integrator / Low Code Developer supporting DIA-NMEC under our 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. You will work closely with Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and Operations Engineering/Manager on a broad scope of activities extending across the development of systems to include backend and frontend software engineering tasks. Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. Percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables. Come join our award-winning organization and work with some of the most talented and brightest minds in the GovCon industry.
Responsibilities
- Work with a team of system integration engineers to successfully deploy release candidates to 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.
- Integrate Docker containers using Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm and other DevOpsSec integration tools.
- Monitor automated system integration tests to identify failed modules and components.
- Manage individual project priorities, deliverables, and deadlines.
- Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members in the goal of providing quality service and product to our customer.
Requirements
- Typically requires Bachelor's Degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience.
- Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain Poly.
- Experience with Appian.
- Experience with Appian Self-Assembling Interface Layer (SAIL).
- 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 Agile practices.
- Development and/or scripting experience, especially Python and Bash.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Enthusiastic with the ability to work well on a team and a self-starter who can work on their own.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with systems at scale Kafka or other message passing systems.
- Experience on a production/enterprise system.
- Cloud infrastructure experience.
- Experience with any of the following technologies: Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/Graphana.
- GPU-based Kubernetes.
- SALT for deployment automation.
- Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, specifically admin experience.
- Helm and Helmfile.
- Cloudera usage, including Kafka topic creation/management, Zookeeper, Solr, and Flume.
- Nexus.
