Full-Time

Cloud Software Engineer 3

Updated on 9/4/2026

InterImage

InterImage

51-200 employees

Secure digital transformation for government agencies

No salary listed

Fort Meade, MD, USA

In Person

Bachelor's, Master's

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Bash
Kubernetes
Python
Apache Subversion (SVN)
Ruby
Apache Solr
Apache Kafka
Computer Networking
Java
AWS
Apache Lucene
Elasticsearch
Maven
VMWare
MongoDB
Hadoop
Yarn
Linux/Unix
Spring

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Requirements
  • Twelve years of software engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity, including four years in programs utilizing big-data cloud technologies and/or distributed computing.
  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required; four years of cloud software engineering experience on projects with similar big-data systems may substitute for the Bachelor's degree.
  • A Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university may substitute for two years of experience.
  • A Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer certification may substitute for one year of cloud experience.
  • Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Rancher RKE2, Kafka, Amazon Web Services, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, large language models, S3/MinIO, Elasticsearch, and NiFi.
  • Deep, demonstrated expertise managing large distributed Kubernetes clusters, managing large MongoDB clusters, or migrating large systems to Amazon Web Services in a hybrid architecture.
  • Demonstrated experience developing Java Spring Boot application services for very large, complex systems.
  • Two years of experience with cloud and/or distributed-computing information retrieval.
  • One year of experience implementing code that interacts with Cloud Bigtable.
  • One year of experience implementing code that interacts with a cloud distributed file system.
  • One year of experience implementing complex MapReduce analytics.
  • One year of experience implementing code that interacts with cloud distributed coordination frameworks.
  • One year of experience architecting cloud-computing solutions.
  • One year of experience debugging problems with cloud-based distributed-computing frameworks.
  • One year of experience managing multi-node cloud-based installations.
  • Experience with utility computing, network management, virtualization using VMware or VirtualBox, and cloud computing.
  • Experience managing and installing cloud and distributed computing across multiple nodes, including Python, CFEngine, Bash, Ruby, or related technologies.
  • Experience securing cloud-based and distributed applications using firewalls, public key infrastructure certificates, server authentication, and corporate authentication services.
  • Experience with object-oriented design and programming, Java, Eclipse or a similar development environment, Maven, and Representational State Transfer web services.
  • Experience with cloud and distributed-computing technologies including YARN, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition, MapReduce, ZooKeeper, HDFS, HBase, Java Message Service, concurrent programming, and multi-node implementation or installation.
  • Experience with cloud and distributed-computing information retrieval technologies including HDFS, HBase, Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, and MongoDB.
  • Experience ingesting, parsing, and analyzing disparate data sources and formats including XML, JSON, CSV, binary formats, sequence or map files, and Avro.
  • Experience with aspect-oriented design and development.
  • Experience debugging and profiling cloud and distributed installations, including Java Virtual Machine memory management and profiling Java applications.
  • Experience with Unix/Linux, CentOS, and Linux/Red Hat.
  • Experience in at least one signals intelligence collection discipline, including FORNSAT, cable, terrestrial/microwave, overhead, or ELINT.
  • Experience with geolocation, emitter identification, and signal applications.
  • Experience with joint program collection platforms, dataflow architectures, and signals characterization analysis.
  • Experience with configuration-management tools such as Subversion, ClearQuest, or Razor.
Responsibilities
  • Develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse big-data cloud systems based on documented requirements.
  • Contribute directly to all stages of back-end processing, analysis, and indexing.
  • Provide expertise in cloud computing, the Hadoop ecosystem, Java application implementation, distributed computing, information retrieval, and object-oriented design.
  • Review and test software components for adherence to design requirements and document test results.
  • Resolve software problem reports.
  • Use software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment.
  • Provide input to software components of system design, including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, commercial off-the-shelf and government off-the-shelf alternatives, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
Desired Qualifications
  • Provide in-depth knowledge of information retrieval and assist the software development team in designing, developing, and testing cloud information-retrieval systems.
  • Implement complex workflows that manage cloud MapReduce analytics.
  • Implement code that interacts with cloud distributed coordination frameworks.
  • Oversee software development tasks and ensure completion in accordance with the software development process used on the project.
  • Recommend improvements to documentation and software development process standards.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for cloud computing and Hadoop technologies while assisting the software development team in designing, developing, and testing cloud computing systems.
  • Debug problems with cloud-based distributed-computing frameworks.
  • Manage multi-node cloud-based installations.
  • Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to teams and monitor their performance.
  • Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and systems engineering.
  • Recommend new technologies and processes for complex cloud software projects.
  • Ensure quality control of developed and modified software.
  • Architect solutions to complex cloud software engineering problems, including efficient processing and retrieval of large amounts of data.

InterImage provides secure digital transformation services for government agencies, including the Department of War, the Intelligence Community, and federal civilian offices. It offers business process management, workflow automation, systems integration, and mission-critical software development, along with capabilities in application modernization, cybersecurity, cloud, data management, robotic process automation, and artificial intelligence. Its differentiators include 30+ years of government experience, woman-owned status, formal process certifications (CMMI Level 3 for Development, ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2022), and a partnership with PixelRain for AI-driven solutions. The company aims to boost agency efficiency, performance, and security while reducing costs and standardizing processes to enable operational readiness and mission success.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Arlington, Virginia

Founded

1996

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What believers are saying

  • DISA awarded InterImage $10.8 million in September 2025, extending recurring federal revenue.
  • HigherGov lists a 2026 recompete: $7.5 million returning within six months.
  • InterImage's contract pages list GSA MAS, SeaPort-NxG, ITES-3S, SEWP VI, and SITE III.

What critics are saying

  • InterImage's 2025 DISA deal used a one-bid women-owned small-business sole source.
  • PrimerFP shows 35 award actions and only $18.4 million total public spend.
  • If the 2026 $7.5 million recompete moves away, InterImage loses a meaningful client anchor.

What makes InterImage unique

  • InterImage's 2026 site emphasizes DoD, intelligence, transportation, and federal modernization.
  • Its 2025 DISA JOPES/JCRM win shows trusted sustainment for mission-critical systems.
  • The 2025 MDA SHIELD IDIQ places InterImage inside a ten-year defense platform.

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