REQUIRED:

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION YOU MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TS/SCI W/ FULL SCOPE POLYGRAPH SECURITY CLEARANCE (U.S. CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED)
 

Provide cloud software research, development, and engineering services to include requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment, testing, validation, and issue diagnosis/resolution.

The Level 5 Cloud Software Engineer shall possess the following capabilities: 

Design, implement, integrate and test new features and capabilities for cloud native service offerings. These systems must be able to run in a hybrid cloud model using containerization, container orchestration, and function based (such as server-less) technologies. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail. 

Developing and designing web-based user interfaces to support search and presentation of operational data and developing web services that provide gRPC and REST-based APIs. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.

Ability to develop automation software for automatic pki certificate creation from an API and delivery of that certificate via infrastructure offerings such but not limited to as cloud vendors, OpenStack, or container orchestration platforms. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for SQL, noSQL, in memory and s3 compatible object store technologies (e.g. Minio) and software within container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail. 

 Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for service mesh technologies like but not limited to istio, linkerd, or aspen mesh within container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail. 

Ability to work effectively with deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for pub/sub technologies such as but not limited to Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ within container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem and push software changes upstream to base products for automation technologies such as but not limited to Ansible, Bash, and Go within container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for metrics and monitoring technologies such as but not limited to Prometheus, Grafana within container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for with logging and monitoring technologies such as but not limited to Fluentd, ElasticSearch, Kibana within container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for distributed network tracing and monitoring technologies such as but not limited to Jaeger, Open Tracing and Kiali within container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, populate, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for cloud package managed systems such as but not limited to yum repos, helm repos, binary repos within orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for cloud native container security monitoring and securing solutions like but not limited to Rook-Ceph, Gluster within orchestration or other similar environments. Must have expert understanding of remote storage concepts such as but not limited to persistent volume claims. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail. 

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for CI/CD pipelines & Git Ops practices like but not limited to Jenkins or GitLab within container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail. 

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for network mesh technologies like but not limited to wiregaurd, network service mesh within or below orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail. 

Ability to effectively work with, deploy to, integrate with the greater system ecosystem for multiple cloud vendors as well as private cloud industry solutions such as but not limited to Kubernetes, AWS, Azure. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail. 

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for container orchestration native policy enforcement technologies like but not limited to OPA within container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support  across all products when all other support models fail.

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for cloud and kubernetes native server-less capabilities enforcement technologies like but not limited to KNative, Lambda, Azure Functions. Excels with cloud agnostic libraries and platforms such as but not limited to the serverless/serverless libraries, triggermesh and the cncf cloud events spec. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail. 

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, and understand the inner workings and push software changes upstream to base products for in memory large scale database technologies like but not limited to Ectd both within and external to container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail. 

)Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push software changes upstream to base products for container orchestration native policy enforcement technologies like but not limited to CoreDNS within and external to container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail. 

Ability to effectively work with, deploy, and understand the inner workings and push software changes upstream to base products for Network Proxy technologies like but not limited to Envoy both within and external to container orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.

Qualifications:

 With the most recent experience being no more than (1.5) years past, a minimum of sixteen (16) years of experience programming with at least one (1) object oriented language, such as but not limited to Java, Python, C++ or Go, or sixteen (16) years of experience building large platforms by integrating open source or commercial software together with automation scripting. • Demonstrated experience designing and developing applications in a Linux operating environment. •  5 years functional experience with containerization technologies like Docker •  8 years functional experience deploying applications to container orchestration technologies such as but not limited to Kubernetes •  An additional two (2) years of experience may be substituted for all minimum requires listed above with an active Certified Kubernetes Application Developer status. This may be stacked with active CKA status. An additional two (2) years of experience may be substituted for all minimum requires listed above with an active Certified Kubernetes Administrator status. This may be stacked with active CKA status. • An additional one (1) year of experience may be substituted for all minimum requires listed above with a status of an Open Source project maintainer in open industry.