Software Engineer L3

Jovian Concepts, LLC is looking to hire a Software Engineer Level 3 for a great opportunity in the Annapolis Junction, MD area. 

 

The DevOps SWE is in an extremely customer facing role leading multi faceted mission critical system development, deployment and evolution.  The successful candidate will be focusing on the development, deployment, and administration of complex systems using C++ or Python, Kubernetes, and GPU technologies. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of sensitive communication systems, from development to deployment, and will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure software meets user requirements.

Requirements

A current and active TS/SCI Clearance with a Polygraph required. No CCA's will be accepted at this time.

• Twenty (20) years experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. 
  
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. 
  

Desired Skills:

• Kubernetes cluster design, deployment, and lifecycle management
  

• Specifically Rancher, RKE2 implementation
  
• Control plane component configuration and troubleshooting
  
• Worker node management, configuration, and lifecycle automation
  
• Workload management (scheduling, affinity, resources, scaling)
  
• High availability cluster configuration
  
• Cluster monitoring
  
• Cluster networking
  
• Cluster storage (storage classes, PVC, PC) and integration with external storage systems
  
• Kubernetes security concepts and implementation (RBAC, service accounts, secrets, certificate management, policy engines)
  
• Helm Familiarity
  
• CKA certification is a plus
  

• Kubernetes application development/deployment principles
  
• CNCF projects/tools
  
• Devops principles
  

• GitOps/Builds/Pipelines
  

• Networking experience (Switching, routing, VLANs)
  
• Advanced Linux Experience (RHEL/Rocky/EL9)
  

• Operating system configuration and troubleshooting
  
• Service management
  
• Hardening
  
• PXE boot and automated OS deployment
  

• Ansible experience
  

• Playbook design
  
• Role development
  
• Ansible collection creation and management
  

• Development and Scripting
  

• Python familiarity
  
• Bash scripting experience
  
• Go (desired)
  
• YAML and JSON manipulation
  
• Git workflows
  

• Knowledge/experience with software unit testing
  
• Cross-functional team collaboration
  
• Stakeholder communication and requirements gathering
  
• Presenting technical concepts to non-technical audiences
  
• RF data processing familiarity
  
• RF application development familiarity
  

 

In a recent employee survey, Jovian Concepts earned a 92% Overall Workplace Experience Score and 100% of employees agreed that they would highly recommend working at Jovian Concepts to others.