SCI Clearance Required)

North Point Technology•King of Prussia, PA

About The Position

North Point Technology is seeking a TS/SCI Cleared Software Engineer to support a critical mission on the GEOINT Collection neXt (GCX) Program. This 7-year contract sustains and advances the GEOINT Information Management Services (GIMS) system, a mission-critical enterprise platform for submitting and adjudicating GEOINT Information Needs (GINs). GIMS allows users to search, discover, and retrieve imagery and GEOINT data, while managing collection, exploitation, dissemination, and production tasks across various providers. The program utilizes DevSecOps and Agile practices, focusing on collaboration, integration, automation, and performance measurement to ensure operational stability. The selected candidate will be part of a scrum team, contributing to Agile software development, designing and debugging software solutions, implementing development standards, and leveraging knowledge of computer systems and mission domains.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI clearance
BS in Software Engineering or related field
2-10 years of experience in CI/CD and Kubernetes-focused engineering or SRE/Platform Engineering
Strong Kubernetes skills - core objects, scheduling, RBAC, networking, storage, upgrades, troubleshooting
Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar)
Experience with Helm and at least one IaC tool (Terraform preferred)
Experience operating container platforms (Docker/OCI), registries, and image lifecycle management
Proficiency with Linux and scripting (Bash and/or Python)
Comfort debugging distributed systems
Experience implementing security controls in pipelines (scanning, secrets handling, least privilege, policy)

Nice To Haves

Experience with NGA CORE (Common Operations Release Environment)
Experience supporting Kubernetes deployment and container orchestration across multiple security domains / networks in government or IC environments
Hands-on GitOps operations (Argo CD/Flux), including multi-tenant cluster patterns
Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno) and admission control guardrails
Experience with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and zero-trust-friendly network segmentation
Experience building reusable platform “golden paths” (pipeline templates, Helm charts, scaffolding)
Strong background in platform hardening - supply chain security, artifact signing, provenance, SBOM workflows
Familiarity with compliance and ATO workflows in regulated environments (RMF/NIST controls)
Large-scale software development experience, including: Agile development with familiarity in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) using VersionOne
Experience with Angular, DOJO, Oracle WebLogic, Tomcat
Databases: Oracle DBMS, Postgres DBMS, SQL, PL/SQL
Operating systems: UNIX/Linux
Web/automation technologies: HTML, Selenium, JavaScript, EJB, Web Services, Microservices (Docker & Kubernetes), REST, XML, UML
Development tools: Eclipse or NetBeans
Deployment architectures and CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Git/JIRA, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Conductor, Kafka/Zookeeper, Consul, CMDB
Big data technologies, including: Data ingest: JSON, Kafka, Microservices, Elasticsearch; Analytics: Hive, Spark, R, Pig, Oozie workflows; Hadoop ecosystem: Hive data, Oozie, Spark, Pig, Impala, Hue; COTS integration: Knowi, MongoDB, Oracle, MySQL RDS, Elastic, Logstash, Kibana, Zookeeper, Consul, Hadoop/HDFS
Containerization/configuration tools: Docker, Chef

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads across dev/test/prod.
Implement core Kubernetes platform capabilities (RBAC, networking, ingress, secrets, autoscaling, and upgrades).
Package and deploy services with Helm/Kustomize using repeatable release strategies.
Automate environments with IaC.
Embed DevSecOps controls and GitOps standards.
Improve operability with strong observability and incident practices.
Partner with application teams to onboard and troubleshoot.
Harden the software supply chain and artifact flow.
Document platform patterns and templates to scale adoption.