Software Engineer

Absolute Business Solutions Corp (ABSC) is not just another tech company. Were a community of innovators, engineers, analysts and business professionals working together with our customers to tackle the most complex challenges. For more than 20 years weve supported critical Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), Federal Civilian missions and global, multi-national corporations. We specialize in supporting our clients in the Intelligence, Technology, Defense, AI/ML, and Data Science fields. As we continue to grow at a rapid pace, we need some amazing new professionals to join our team.

ABSC has an exciting opening for you as our next TS/SCI cleared Software Engineer supporting a long-term DIA-NMEC DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. You will work closely with Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and Operations Engineering/Manager on a broad scope of activities extending across the development of systems to include an enterprise AFEM (Automated Facial Extraction and Matching) capability. Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. We offer a flexible environment where work is conducted both remotely and on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD. The percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

Security clearance required for this role: TS/SCI (eligible) with ability/willingness to obtain a CI polygraph.

Responsibilities:

• Work in a DevSecOps environment to ensure availability of the biometric system and data to end users.
• Oversee the integration, maintenance, and monitoring of software to ensure constant availability of all technical resources, and provide technical direction to IT support staff.
• Develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems ( e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements
• Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components
• Designs, implements, and integrates software applications or performs software engineering tasks to include making enhancements to the existing system and operational support to diagnose and/or correct any system abnormalities
• Utilizes software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development, integration, and production environment
• Participate in test, staging and production deployment.
• Assist in the maintenance of services and procedures for a big data pipeline which includes Kafka, Elasticsearch, and several in-house written python/java micro services running on Kubernetes
• Develop and integrate Docker containers to be deployed to Kubernetes
• Monitor automated system integration tests to identify failed modules and components
• Manage individual project priorities, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Update project documentation for each release
• Provide tasking and time estimates for each Program Increment
• Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members with the goal of providing quality service and product to our customers

Requirements:

• Typically requires Bachelors Degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience maybe substituted for a degree.
• Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain Poly
• Experience with containerization, especially with Docker
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices, especially Gitlab or Jenkins
• Experience with Python
• Experience with API Development
• Experience in Extraction, Transformation, and Load (ETL)
• Experience enterprise search capabilities (such as Elasticsearch) to solve Big Data challenges
• Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL server
• Experience with Agile practices
• Hands-on development and/or scripting experience, especially Python and Bash in Linux environment
• Proficiency with Linux server management and developing tools optimized for a Linux or cross-platform operation environment
• Familiarity and experience creating, deploying, and maintaining service worker and manager nodes/pods in a Kubernetes environment (kubectl)
• Experience leveraging CUDA, PyTorch, or other services to deploy containerized processing on GPUs
• Understanding of application-level security.
• Knowledge of logging and log analysis systems
• Proficiency in C# programming, with the ability to understand, maintain, and contribute to applications built on these languages and their respective frameworks.
• Experience with creating and managing microservices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Enthusiastic with the ability to work well in a team and a self-starter who can work on their own

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with biometric systems and biometric SDKs.
• Familiarity with Caliburn.Micro XAML framework.
• Understanding or Experience with ANSI/NIST ITL and DoD Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification (EBTS).
• Active Security+ certification
• Active CE certification
• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification by the Government
• GraphQL Service
• Apache NiFi
• Experience with systems at scale
• Kafka or other message passing systems
• Experience with AWS cloud-based architecture, services (Lambda, etc.), and software development
• Experience with Artifactory
• Experience of a production/enterprise system
• Appian low-code application development platform
• Experience with any of the following technologies:
  • GPU-based Kubernetes
  • SALT for deployment automation
  • Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash

Salary is commensurate with experience. Salary range for this requisition is: $140k-$225k annual.

Who we are:
ABSC is a technology and services company that combines the agility of a small business with proven processes refined over more than two decades in business. We specialize in supporting public sector clients in the Intelligence, Defense, Health, and Safety areas. Our team stands ready to deliver the next generation of programs, personnel, and solutions to help advance our federal government customers driving innovation, agility, and security across all mission areas.

Some of our benefits include:

• 4 weeks of PTO plus 11 Federal Holidays
• Retirement Planning 401k Fully Vested with Match
• Tuition Assistance Program Annual contributions to help you pay down your loans
• Annual Health and Wellness Allowance buy an Apple Watch, a treadmill, or hit the gym on us
• Career Development Annual Funds to spend on Education and Training
• Volunteer Time Off Annually, all employees can spend 8 hours directly supporting a charity of choice
• Charitable Match ABSC matches an employees donation to a qualifying charity
• Paid Parental Leave Employees receive 3 weeks of paid parental leave at 100% pay
• Referral Program We pay for internal and external referrals!
• LOV Awards Earn bonus awards throughout the year from our Living Our Values awards program

Apply to join our team today! We are always looking to grow our team - if you know someone who is seeking a new career opportunity, please share this job opening with them. ABSC offers generous external referral bonuses. You dont need to be an employee to benefit from our Referral Program.

*ABSC is a proud V3, Virginia Values Vets, member which recognizes our commitment to hiring Veterans. If you are a veteran, please be sure to include that in your application.*

Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.