Software Engineer (Developer, OpenSearch)
About The Position
Transform technology into opportunity as a Software Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Software Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission. The Software Engineer will design, develop, code, test, and debug complex software products to be deployed in a mission critical environment. The ideal candidate is a hands-on developer with significant experience in scalable data platforms, cloud-based services, and big data analytics, and OpenSearch or Elasticsearch. They must have strong, firsthand technical expertise in a variety of data ingestion/computation technologies and the proven ability to fashion robust scalable solutions that can manage large data sets. They must be at ease working in an agile environment with a cross-functional team. This person should embody a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work/military experience.
- 2+ years of related experience
- TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
- US citizenship required
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Python, Git, and unit testing frameworks.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with building APIs and services using REST.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with AWS CDK 1 and/or 2 or Terraform.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience applying object-oriented design principles and patterns to architect scalable, maintainable, and testable software systems in production environments.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and developing applications using core AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC
Responsibilities
- Work with a team to write new cloud-based applications and tools and recommend new technologies and methodologies to improve system performance and usability.
- Design, develop, test, debug, and deploy new software tools that extend or replace existing capabilities to parse raw data for analysis.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, analysts, project managers and other engineers and technical SMEs.
- Deploy new software into an AWS-based data ingest pipeline.
- Write software that interacts with multiple data types and stores data into S3 buckets that is queried by processes running Athena or OpenSearch.
- As an OpenSearch expert, drive the design of indexing strategies, query optimizations, and maintain overall architectural ownership of the OpenSearch data layer.
- Troubleshoot complex problems and provide support to mission areas for software systems and application issues.
- Maintain good documentation for new software written and new procedures to be followed.
- Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Work alongside other engineers on the team to sustain and advance our organization’s capabilities.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay
- Paid time off
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
