Software Integration Engineer

SAIC•Town of Cortlandt, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking an experienced Principal Software Integration Engineer to join its Technical Engineering and Design Department in support of a United States Air Force customer. The engineer will monitor systems and remediate issues to help meet uptime requirements for critical systems, while providing technical support to improve Multi-Domain Command and Control (MDC2) capabilities through development and continuous improvement of the JFN and JMIE systems. The position is on-site at Camp Smith in Hawaii.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and nine or more years of experience, master’s degree and seven or more years of experience, or Ph.D. or JD and four or more years of experience; experience may substitute for a degree.
Experience with automation tools and techniques, including configuration management and system validation.
Experience with system monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk.
Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware, vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Linux KVM.
Experience with DevSecOps practices and continuous integration and development tools such as Jenkins and GitLab Runners.
Experience with Kubernetes distributions such as RKE2, EKS, and K8s.
Experience with cloud platforms and services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform.
Knowledge of application integration testing and automated testing frameworks.
Ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with application providers.
Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
Excellent communication and presentation abilities, including experience reporting project status to leadership.
Familiarity with modern IT frameworks and methodologies such as Agile and ITIL.
Understanding of business and technical alignment to achieve organizational goals.
U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance.
IAT Level II certification.

Responsibilities

Ensure the availability, stability, and health of program resources supporting operations, experimentation, development, and testing, including the JFN MLS operational architecture, nodes, hub, network, software baseline, and CI/CD apparatus.
Develop and maintain automated reporting using commercial or customer dashboards to report overall system health and status.
Provide software sustainment using software configuration management controls and processes.
Establish and improve engineering processes and tools for system status using platform, application, and data monitoring tools.
Contribute to designing and developing automation for daily verification and validation of key functional capabilities.
Support automation of configuration management and visibility into configuration management status across environments.
Implement and promote systems engineering principles to support program success.
Work with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability.
Prepare detailed reports and presentations on findings and share insights with stakeholders.
Stay current with trends and advancements in automated testing, distributed databases, software-defined networking, container orchestration, and DevSecOps.