You will excel in this role if you are:

• A software engineer who thinks tactically and strategically to successfully design, develop, and deploy automated solutions using a variety of tools across multiple platforms
• A subject matter expert that can naturally and effectively manage interactions with software engineers 
• Versatile and able to meet quickly changing technology needs 
• Self-motivated to improve product efficiency
• Exceptional at analyzing complex workflows and solving hard problems 
• Familiar with Agile principles and DevOps workflows
• Excited to provide mentorship to junior and mid level software engineers

A day in the life consists of:

• Hybrid Remote Schedule: Two days of working from home and three days working on site on average per week to solve a variety of challenging engineering problems
• Architecting, developing, and maintaining secure software and repository solutions
• Working directly with customers, managers and technical staff to understand business needs, develop technical plans, and deliver solutions that solve mission problems 
• Applying your expertise to code, plan, test, and deploy software and repository solutions across network domains
• Connecting various elements of coding along with libraries and applications for software releases with various operating systems and production infrastructures
• Coordinating across multi-functional teams to formulate, prototype, implement, and fine tune solutions
• Providing multiple tier levels of support to customers, software development teams, and network engineers
• Establishing strong, collaborative working relationships with Government customers, technical staff, and peers 
• Sharing software engineering best practices and principles

What we are expecting from you:

• 20 years of experience architecting, developing, and maintaining software solutions, with an emphasis on performance optimizations
• Bachelor’s or Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical discipline
• Technical leadership and/or mentoring experience
• Demonstrated experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining complex software systems in cloud environments such as AWS
• Experience with provisioning, virtualization and containerization orchestration, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) tools 
• Demonstrated success troubleshooting and solving complex problems
• Experience developing and maintaining software solutions using a variety of languages
• Ability to perform scripting (e.g., Bash, Python, Ruby) on Linux platform
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases
• Deep understanding of software and infrastructure engineering best practices
• Strong monitoring/metrics skills 
• User documentation and support experience
• Deployment and management experience with binary software repositories such as Nexus, Artifactory
• Experience working with, deploying, and managing Linux-based OS systems

Nice to have:

• Proactive technical customer service experience
• Experience optimizing workflows across network domains
• Experience with AWS
• Contributions back into open-source community
• Understanding of open-source libraries and tools
• Container (Docker) and Container Orchestration understanding