Senior COTS Integrator

Freedom Technology Solutions Group•Annapolis Junction, MD

6h•$185,000 - $240,000

About The Position

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking a Senior System Engineer. Our mission supports the Government Corporate Management Services (CMS) by providing full life cycle support services through the sustainment, modernization, and transformation of the enterprise corporate applications. As soon as an employee enters a customer facility, they touch one of these applications which are critical to the daily functions of thousands of users across acquisition, business, finance, HR, training, recruitment, program management, security, logistics and more. Come join our diverse and growing team with lots of opportunities! We are seeking a Senior COTS Integrator for one of our PRIME CONTRACTS that extends through 2026 and offers exciting opportunities to support essential services and mission critical activities across the enterprise. Our mission supports the Government Corporate Management Services (CMS) by providing full life cycle support services through the sustainment, modernization, and transformation of the enterprise corporate applications. These applications are used across the government enterprise and are critical to the daily functions of thousands of users across acquisition, business, finance, HR, training, recruitment, program management, security, logistics and more. Come join our diverse and growing team with lots of opportunities! The selected candidate will work on a team building performance-monitoring solutions for systems. The candidate will leverage the Jenkins automated execution architecture for automated performance checks. The candidate will instrument different environments in order to capture performance metrics and will build software leveraging REST APIs to automate the capture of metrics. The candidate will utilize Elastic stack to store performance metrics and develop visualizations of the performance metrics. The candidate will integrate open source and COTS products in a secure environment with PKI-based authentication, corporate authorization services, firewalls, and SSL/TLS communications. The ideal candidate must possess a good understanding of network, operating system, application, and end-point performance. The candidate must have strong communication and collaboration skills and be results-oriented.

Requirements

TS/SCI with Polygraph
Twelve (12) years of experience in software development/engineering
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or related discipline
Four (4) years of additional software development experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
Experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), including Elastic Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Installing, updating, and/or maintaining multiple Elastic Stack environments
Creating and modifying Logstash pipelines
Creating and modifying Kibana visualizations
Instrumenting systems with Elastic Agent and Elastic APM Agent
Experience with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP)
Experience with Python and/or Vega programming
Familiarity with web application technologies (e.g., html, JavaScript, web servers, and application servers)
Proficient in UNIX commands
Proficient in Windows

Nice To Haves

Experience with MicroFocus Business Service Management (BSM) tool suite: MicroFocus SiteScope MicroFocus Operations Manager i (OMi)
Experience with AWS Cloud
Experience with NiFi
Experience with Jenkins
Experience with Selenium
Experience with Ansible or Terraform
System administration background

Responsibilities

building performance-monitoring solutions for systems
leveraging the Jenkins automated execution architecture for automated performance checks
instrumenting different environments in order to capture performance metrics
building software leveraging REST APIs to automate the capture of metrics
utilizing Elastic stack to store performance metrics and develop visualizations of the performance metrics
integrating open source and COTS products in a secure environment with PKI-based authentication, corporate authorization services, firewalls, and SSL/TLS communications

Benefits

Flexible work environment
A team mentality – work with friendly, like-minded professionals
Work with innovative, cutting edge technologies
Enjoy extremely competitive compensation and benefits
A work-life balance you can count on
Opportunities to grow and advance your career on our dime
Amazing benefits including matching 401k, fully paid medical, and more
Generous paid time off – including paid site closure days
Competitive salary offerings
Paid training and tuition reimbursement
Referral bonuses
Fully paid life and disability
Annual logo wear allowance
Company sponsored events (game nights, holiday party, summer party, happy hours)