Software Integration Engineer III
Posted
Summary
Administer, maintain, and operationally support the CASA Compute Environment — a secure multi-tenant Kubernetes PaaS on Linux — at Fort Meade, MD. Daily work spans cluster administration/troubleshooting, IaC with Ansible, Helm charts, and monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana. Requires an active TS/SCI with FS Polygraph.
Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled Software Integration Engineer III to join our team!
The Software Integration Engineer will provide administration, maintenance, and operational support for the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) component of the CASA Compute Environment (CCE) — a secure, multi-tenant, high-performance, and highly available Kubernetes platform running on Linux-based infrastructure. This role ensures platform reliability, scalability, security compliance, and optimal cluster performance in support of mission and application requirements.
Qualifications:
The Software Integration Engineer will provide administration, maintenance, and operational support for the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) component of the CASA Compute Environment (CCE) — a secure, multi-tenant, high-performance, and highly available Kubernetes platform running on Linux-based infrastructure. This role ensures platform reliability, scalability, security compliance, and optimal cluster performance in support of mission and application requirements.
Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI + FS Polygraph
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and at least eight (8) years of demonstrable experience with integrating, installing, configuring, upgrading, compiling, and supporting COTS/GOTS software in a heterogeneous operating system environment OR
- Five (5) years full time Computer Science directly related work that can be substituted for a degree and at least eight (8) years of demonstrable experience OR
- An industry recognized professional certification, as defined in the TTOs, may substitute as one (1) year experience. A Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field may substitute for two (2) years' experience.
- Experience using the Linux CLI and Linux suite of tools
- Experience developing scripts using Bash/Python
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker/Podman
- Demonstrated experience administrating and monitoring Kubernetes clusters
- Experience troubleshooting and resolving issues related to Kubernetes workloads (ingress, performance, networking, storage, etc.)
- Experience with IaC principles, concepts, and methodologies using automation tools including Ansible
- Experience writing, deploying, and maintaining Helm Charts
- Experience using system monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana
- Experience using Git for source code management, branching strategies, and team collaboration
Desired Skills + Experience
- Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
- Experience working in a DevOps environment that uses Agile principles and methodologies
- Experience with or willingness to learn development of Python applications (REST services, microservices, etc.)
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)