Principal DevOps / Software Engineer

About the role

Are you a Principal DevOps / Software Engineer who is ready for a new challenge that will launch your career to the next level?

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• Long term job security GliaCell is seeking a** Principal DevOps / Software Engineer **on one of our subcontracts. This is a full-time position offering the opportunity to support a U.S. Government customer. The mission is to provide technical expertise that assists in sustaining critical mission-related software and systems to a large government contract.
• You will be a member of the Mission Intelligence (MI) team supporting a variety of data engineering, analysis, and automation efforts.
• The MI team maintains a business intelligence platform supporting data-driven decisions in the enterprise.
• Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the availability of this mission-essential platform.
• You will also contribute to the MI team as a software engineer and analytic developer where you will design, develop, and integrate solutions involving the analysis of large data sets to establish mission cognizance and deliver mission-centric insights. **Responsibilities: **
• Incrementally incorporate site reliability engineering principles into the existing operational platform.
• Maintain and advance a mission-essential business intelligence platform.
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders, gather and analyze available data, and develop solutions for delivering key metrics.
• Develop analytics to combine, normalize, and enrich large data sets.
• Design and implement ETL workflows to convert and normalize data.
• Augment the platform with new tools or technologies.
• Provide guidance to more junior software engineers and data scientists.
• Communicate clearly through written documentation. Key Requirements:
• ** Possess an active or rein-statable TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance. ** 
• U.S. Citizenship.
• Professional/Education experience: 12 years & Bachelors of Science Degree, or 4 additional years in place of a BS Degree. 
• Strong communication skills.  Required Skills:
• Strong customer service mindset.
• Production-grade software development experience in Java and Python.
• Experience or familiarity with site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.
• Familiarity with customer authentication and authorization platforms and standards.
• Experience with productizing software as containers and deployment with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Confidence with Git and Gitlab for software version control.
• Confidence with basic to intermediate Linux System Administration tasks.
• Willingness to contribute to internal and customer-facing written documentation. Desired Skills:
• Familiarity with Apache NiFi.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch and Kibana. 
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of map-reduce analytic environments (e.g., Hadoop).
• Knowledge of end-to-end SIGINT collection and analysis systems.
• Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations.
• Experience with frontend UI development. **Location: **Laurel, MD (onsite full time)

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program
• Travel Protection Program
• Technology Budget
• Global Entry