Software Engineer 4

• Requisition ID: 4233

• Standard Title: Senior Software Engineer

• Required Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI

• Location: Bethesda, MD

• Work Type: On-Site

• Shift: First

• Referral Eligibility: Eligible

• U.S. Citizenship Required? Yes

Position Summary

Support the NMEC DOMEX Technology Platform and D3P Modernization effort by designing, deploying, and maintaining a full-stack containerized microservices architecture in a mission-focused engineering environment.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes with Elasticsearch backend and Kafka messaging.

• Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes.

• Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure including physical and virtualized environments.

• Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments in support of new feature requirements.

• Collaborate with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams.

• Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and related meetings

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of ten years of experience in the category field.

• Strong Linux proficiency.

• Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes.

• Experience with CI/CD orchestration and GitLab.

• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.

• Demonstrated success working in cross-functional engineering environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating systems at scale.

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies.

• Development experience with Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, or Java.

• Experience supporting enterprise or production systems.

• Familiarity with Kafka or other messaging systems, Kubernetes monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, GPU-based Kubernetes, SALT for deployment automation, Helm/Helmfile, and Nexus.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

• Bachelors' Degree with 10 years of experience.

• Masters' Degree with 10 years of experience.

• PhD with 10 years of experience.

Required Certifications

• None specified.

Required Security Clearance

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.

Pay & Benefit Highlights

Compensation

• Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).

• Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.

• Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).

Health

• 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

• Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.

• 100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

• 100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

Income Protection

• 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.

• 100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.

• 100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).

• 100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.

Retirement

• 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).

• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

• Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).

• 11 paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

• Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).