Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Defensive Cyber Operations for Space (DCO-S) Kraken (in band) development team, you will be the backbone of our in band value stream for the Digital Blood Hound project, building and maintaining the COTS tools, Deployment automation, and CI/CD pipelines that enable our software teams to ship code efficiently and securely. You will move away from application-layer development to focus on Detection as Code ( DaC ), value stream model, within a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Operating System and Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) deployment model. This is a hands-on technical role for someone who loves solving technical design patterns with the approved Tools and building stable value streams that allow our mission site end users to uncover threats that are outside the Heuristic Baseline Machine Learning models discovered at the air gapped mission system network and application levels.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field with 18+ years of experience, or a Master’s degree with 10+ year of experience
- Deep understanding of Linux fundamentals, specifically Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Hands-on experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management
- Proficiency with GitLab (administering runners, writing . gi tlab-ci.yml c onfigurations, and managing repositories)
- Strong programming skills in Ansible, Python and Shell/Bash scripting for automation and system tasks
- Experience running and managing containers using Docker or Podman
- Obtain Security+ within the first 90 days of employment with Raft
- Active Secret Clearance required
- U.S. citizenship
Nice To Haves
- Experience configuring and managing Red Hat Id M ( Identity Management) or FreeIPA
- Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) or OpenShift for container orchestration
- Experience with the Elastic Security, Elastic Observability, Elastic Machine Learning and the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging and monitoring with AWS or Azure cloud environments
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities
- Build step-by-step approach to setting up basic event-driven automation using Ansible Rulebooks and ansible.eda.range module.
- Infrastructure Automation: Design, develop, and maintain Ansible EDA playbooks and roles to automate the provisioning and configuration of RHEL servers and infrastructure
- CI/CD Pipeline Management: Own the Kraken GitLab CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless integration and delivery of software artifacts
- Containerization: Manage containerized applications and environments using Po dman , ensuring efficient resource utilization and isolation
- System Administration: Perform advanced administration of COTS tools and Cloud Dev environments, including patching, security hardening, and performance tuning
- Tooling & Scripting: Develop custom automation scripts and tools using EDA, Python and Shell (Bash) to streamline operational tasks
- Collaboration: Work closely with security, platform and Cloud engineers to troubleshoot deployment issues and optimize the development feedback loop
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) and company match
- Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
- Education & training benefits
- Generous Referral Bonuses
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
