Kibana Software Engineer (Secret)

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a relevant technical discipline and 4+ year of related experience obtained through any combination of coursework and internships. –
  
• Must hold an active Interim Secret DoD Security clearance. –
  
• Ability to obtain Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 14 days of the start date. –
  
• Software development experience with Python, Java and SQL.
  
• Working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript. –
  
• Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket. –
  
• Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering. –
  
• Experience developing software on a UNIX command line platform. –
  
• Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team. –
  
• Must be able to commute to Scott AFB, IL, Ft. Meade, MD, or Ogden, UT two/three times per week for on-site support –
  
• 2+ years of UX/UI architecture, design, development and delivery experience. Strong documentation skills with a proven ability to develop architecture diagrams and wireframes. –
  
• 1+ years of demonstrable experience designing, developing and deploying dashboards and reports using the Elastic stack, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats. - Experience in architecture, design, develop, and delivery of data driven operations capabilities, within a DoD environment. –
  
• Experience working with a highly technical team and in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. –
  
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Git repo –
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, systems engineers, and architects. -
  
• Candidate to be able to work with strict deadlines. –
  
• Ability to work well/collaborate with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience. –
  
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and practices. –
  
• High attention to detail and accuracy. –
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  

Preferred Qualifications: -

• Experience with data Visualization and dashboards –
  
• Elastic/Kibana Certified Engineer. –
  
• Software design and development experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS and JSON/REST APIs in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus). –
  
• Experience developing, building and deploying software using Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools). –
  
• Experience with big data applications. –
  
• Experience with cloud-based AWS services. –
  
• Knowledge of designing, developing and deploying solutions using DevOps/DevSecOps concepts. –
  
• Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards. –
  
• Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team –
  
• Experience or familiarity with Agile development and testing methodology -
  
• Experience with DISA and DoD Networks. –
  
• Experience with big data applications –
  
• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps, Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD implementation –
  
• Understanding of network routing devices and network device configurations    
  

Essential Requirements: US Citizenship is required. Active Secret

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodation.   While performing the duties of this job, the employee will regularly sit, walk, stand and climb stairs and steps. May require walking long distance from parking to work station. Occasionally, movement that requires twisting at the neck and/or trunk more than the average person, squatting/ stooping/kneeling, reaching above the head, and forward motion will be required. The employee will continuously be required to repeat the same hand, arm, or finger motion many times. Manual and finger dexterity are essential to this position. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, depth perception and telling differences among colors. The employee must be able to communicate through speech with clients and public. Hearing requirements include conversation in both quiet and noisy environments. Lifting may require floor to waist, waist to shoulder, or shoulder to overhead movement of up to 20 pounds. This position demands tolerance for various levels of mental stress.  

Job Duties:

·      Researching, designing, developing and user-testing experiences and making strategic user-experience decisions while working closely with product owners, engineers and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle. –

·      Conducting usability studies and proactively identifying and devising solutions for issues with the existing experience. Tracking success of experience focused changes and iterating as necessary to improve performance. –

·      Independently conducting UX research interviews, prototype reviews, surveys, and usability sessions. –

·      Developing personas, user flows, scenarios, user stories, goal/task analysis, system workflows and other key tools of user-centered design that simplify and enhance the insights acquired from complex data analytics platforms. –

·      Translating concepts into user flows, wireframes, and work collaboratively to create mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experience. –

·      Applying the basics of visual design (i.e UI) principles in their design work such as visual hierarchy, proximity, similarity, font selection and color theory and demonstrate an understanding of visual, layout, content organization, and accessibility guidelines. –

·      Designing, supporting development, documenting, testing and deploying applications and UI prototypes to be written by software team in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. - Support the creation of Kibana visualizations and dashboards using React, JavaScript and HTML.