Software Developer Integration Engineer (Secret)

Qualifications: 

• B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering and 5+ years of combined experience in Kafka, Java, RESTful services, AWS, and full stack development. –
  
• 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. –
  
• Advanced understanding of event streaming and Kafka integration. –
  
• Experience in application integration design and strong communication skills for collaboration with virtual teams. –
  
• Experience in developing software detailed designs, particularly in ksql or kstreams. –
  
• Proficiency in following a software development lifecycle and maintaining production-quality code. –
  
• 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. –
  
• Develop DoD requirements, traceability, and detailed plans/schedules.
  
• Write software systems engineering documents and interface documents (IDDs/ICDs).
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Text Mining & ELK Stack: Experience with text mining tools and techniques, including ELK Stack for summarization, search, and entity extraction. –
  
• CI/CD & DevOps: Familiarity with CI/CD techniques, containerized pipelines, and DevOps practices. –
  
• Search & Analytics Applications: Experience with BI tools like Kibana and Splunk, and technologies like Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kafka, and NiFi. –
  
• Kubernetes & Agile: Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment, Agile methodologies, and tools. –
  
• Cloud Expertise: Familiarity with AWS GovCloud and cloud infrastructure, including networking and security policies. –
  
• Cloud Platform Expertise: Utilize expert knowledge of cloud-integrated platforms for integration and deployment tasks. –
  
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work within a matrixed organization, collaborating with project leadership and core GMS teams to combine software and integration practices with data engineering. –
  
• System Architecture & Operational Stability: Apply knowledge of system architecture, networks, and Centralized Logging (ELK) to support data transformation initiatives. –
  
• Cloud & DoD Environments: 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, including updating applications and code to meet security scans and meeting security implementation guidelines (e.g. STIGs). –
  
• Agile Processes: Experience with Agile methodologies and related tools. Experience with Atlassian tools, including JIRA and Confluence. –
  
• Certifications: Certified Confluent Developer and Certified Elastic Engineer. –
  
• Remote Teamwork: Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team. –
  

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:

• Integration Solutions: Develop and implement integration solutions for the JMT project using Kafka and Elastic as the primary data architecture platforms. –
  
• Data Integration: Integrate data sources (ServiceNow, Terminal Cert DB, Modem Cert DB, Baseband Mission Workup, TRS, MRS, UDL) into Confluent (Kafka) and Elastic platforms. Develop Kafka system integrations between Elasticsearch/Logstash and other systems. –
  
• Kafka Integration & Development: Develop Kafka system integrations, custom connectors, and work with ksqlDB and Kafka Streams for data processing based on the design solution. –
  
• Kafka Cluster Management: Deploy and manage Kafka clusters on Kubernetes in multi-site environments (both on-premise and cloud). –
  
• Software Lifecycle Automation: Automate the full software lifecycle, from design and development to testing and deployment, including production environments. –
  
• DevOps Pipelines: Design and build application deployment pipelines, including containerized environments using Kubernetes and Docker, and automated testing pipelines.