Senior Software Engineer

CACI International

5d•Onsite

About The Position

CACI’s growing Agile Digital Solutions Operating Group is searching for a Software Engineer supporting the modernization and transformation of a large portfolio of enterprise business solutions used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The candidate will be part of a team where complex problem solving, and communication skills are critical to success.

Requirements

In-depth understanding of AWS fundamentals and services in a multi-account structure (networking, security, compute)
Demonstrated hands on and design experience developing and applying cloud solutions to include hands-on experience with some or all the following: AWS, Azure, Google and/or Oracle Cloud Services, Microservice architecture and deploying containerized applications using Docker and or Kubernetes.
Familiarity with and ability to manage/contribute to a large, multi-tenant Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code base built with Terraform and Terragrunt.
Familiarity with and ability to create routine platform-related automation orchestrated by AWS services (AWS Lambda, EventBridge, etc.)
Ability to empathetically work with platform customers (software or data engineering teams) to triage and resolve issues, enable self-service, and introduce improvements based on feedback.
Experience monitoring cloud resources for cost and performance and implementing FinOps-based practices to reduce overall spend.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline. Experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Ability to design and document technical solutions related to continuous integration and continuous deployment.
Demonstrated experience working with agile project management tools
Must be able to obtain and maintain a NASA Public Trust background investigation

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting the NASA Web Services Operational Environment
Experience working with or administrating industry-standard Enterprise Data Platform applications, such as Databricks, Apache Airflow, or similar technologies
Experience with deploying containerized applications and maintaining container orchestration systems through code: Kubernetes (EKS preferred),GitOps (Flux + Kustomize preferred)
Experience with platform observability systems (resource monitoring, logging, alerting mechanisms) like AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus and Grafana, or similar.
Experience working on complicated problems and providing solutions that are highly creative and ingenious, exhibiting ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness
Acts independently and within is a team environment to expose and resolve problems.
Experience supporting Federal government project
Experience working in a dynamic, multifaceted environment

Responsibilities

Build, enhance, and maintain scalable data‑driven services and APIs ensuring reliability, performance, and secure integration across systems.
Maintain technical expertise in industry standards and cloud computing and virtualization technologies including cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; public, community, private, and hybrid deployment models; IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networking; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling.
Collaborate with cross‑functional engineering, cybersecurity, and product teams to design and implement features that improve data ingestion, metadata management, automation workflows, and platform usability
Develop high-quality software solutions using modern cloud, data, and DevSecOps practices, contributing to continuous integration/deployment pipelines and platform-wide engineering best practices.
Develop and maintain continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for seamless software continuous deployment and management of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).