Software Integration Engineer 4

Columbia Technology Partners•Annapolis Junction, MD

About The Position

Columbia Technology Partners is seeking a Software Integration Engineer to support advanced software integration and operations in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The role focuses on mission operations infrastructure, including automation, monitoring, alerting, and resiliency at scale. The engineer will lead integration efforts, troubleshoot complex customer configurations, and help ensure high availability across enterprise HPC environments. The position involves integrating, installing, configuring, upgrading, and maintaining commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and government off-the-shelf (GOTS) software in heterogeneous environments. It also includes supporting HPC systems and applications, resolving complex software and infrastructure issues across Linux environments, and leading automation, monitoring, and resiliency initiatives. The engineer will work with Linux distributions, scripting and programming languages, automation frameworks, monitoring and alerting platforms, code repositories, and collaboration and workload-management tools. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and hold an active security clearance with an appropriate polygraph. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a security background investigation and polygraph. Applicants and employees are subject to random drug testing in accordance with Executive Order 12564. A DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification or equivalent is required. CTP describes its compensation as competitive and says salary ranges are determined by role and responsibilities, market benchmarks, experience and qualifications, location, and company performance. The company offers medical plans, dental and vision coverage, retirement contributions, customizable paid time off and leave, career-related learning and tuition support, insurance and disability coverage, profit-sharing bonuses, and a referral bonus program.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a related field; five additional years of experience may substitute.
Minimum 10 years of experience supporting software integration in complex Linux environments.
DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification or equivalent.
Advanced experience with Linux systems, including RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, SLES, and Ubuntu.
Experience with programming and scripting using Python, Bash, and C.
Experience leading automation, monitoring, and infrastructure tooling efforts, including Ansible, Salt, Nagios/Thruk, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
U.S. citizenship is required.
An active security clearance with appropriate polygraph is required.
Successful completion of a security background investigation and polygraph is required.
Applicants and employees are subject to random drug testing in accordance with Executive Order 12564.

Responsibilities

Integrate, install, configure, upgrade, and maintain COTS and GOTS software in heterogeneous environments.
Support HPC systems and applications to ensure continuous mission operations.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex software and infrastructure issues across Linux environments.
Lead automation, monitoring, and resiliency initiatives across mission systems.
Oversee customer use-case configuration and advanced troubleshooting efforts.
Develop and optimize scripts and tools using Python, Bash, and C.
Implement and manage automation frameworks such as Salt and Ansible.
Architect and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions, including Nagios/Thruk, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
Manage code repositories and workflows using Git-based tools such as Gitbucket.
Collaborate across teams using Jira, Confluence, and Slurm for system orchestration and workload management.

Benefits

Three medical plans with in-network and out-of-network options.
Vision and dental coverage paid in full by CTP.
401(k) with a 6% company contribution.
Paid time off and customizable leave plans.
Jury duty, bereavement, and military leave.
Up to $10,000 for approved career-related learning, training, education, and/or tuition.
Life and AD&D insurance at no cost to the employee.
Short-term and long-term disability coverage at no cost to the employee.
End-of-year profit-sharing bonus.
Tiered referral bonus program with bonuses ranging from $7,000 to $20,000 if the referral joins the team.