Sr. Software Engineer

Que Technology Group, Inc., is seeking a motivated Software Engineer to support daily operations and collaborate with cross functional teams to troubleshoot complex issues and maintain high system availability.

This DevOps SWE is in an extremely customer-facing role, leading multi-faceted, mission-critical system development, deployment and evolution.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Focus on the development, deployment, and administration of complex systems using C++ or Python, Kubernetes, and GPU technologies.
• Responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of our satellite communication systems, from development to deployment, and will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure software meets user requirements.
• Develop and maintain applications using Python
• Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications with Docker.
• Design and optimize database solutions with MongoDB.
• Collaborate with team members using Git for version control and code reviews.
• Ensure smooth CI/CD processes and participate in the full software development lifecycle.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback.
• Provide on-site technical support, including diagnosing and resolving issues with hardware, applications, and user environments.
• Perform system administration tasks as needed to maintain operational stability across multiple locations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university and Seven (7) years' experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Kubernetes cluster design, deployment, and lifecycle management
• Specifically Rancher, RKE2 implementation
• Controle plane component configuration and troubleshooting
• Worker node management, configuration, and lifecycle automation
• Workload management (scheduling, affinity, resources, scaling)
• High-availability cluster configuration
• Cluster monitoring, networking, 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
• Stakeholder communication and requirements gathering
• Presenting technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• RF data processing and application development familiarity

Security Clearance:

• TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

BENEFITS:

• Competitive salary
• Company Medical/Dental/Vision plans - Company paid
• Short-term Disability, Long-term disability and Life Insurance - Company paid
• Business/ First Class travel upgrade for 7 hour or longer flights & company card will be provided for expenses
• Vacation / Personal days granted at 25 days per year
• Paid Federal Holidays - 11 days
• $5,000 Annual Professional Development Fund plus 40 paid hours if in class
• 401K with 6% company match; all contributions are immediately vested by Employee
• Employee will be paid a bonus of $10,000 per employee hired based on their referral
• Up to 3 paid Code Red days due to customer closure

Que Technology Group, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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