Linux Software Integration Engineer

Description

Perks and Benefits

• 100% Paid Healthcare
• 31 Days PTO
• 10% 401k in every paycheck
• 100% Fully Vested!!!

 Do you get excited about learning new technologies, problem solving, and influencing outcomes?

We know that cybersecurity and its technologies evolve at a rapid pace. The defense community needs an engineering partner who can not only keep up, but bring the technical expertise and passion necessary to solve the new hardest problems — and do it well. GIGATEC's highly engaged, agile team does just that, with innovative solutions for every mission-critical challenge.

If your answer is an enthusiastic "yes" then please keep reading!

Our team is passionate about defending national security and mastering new tech, so we give our engineers exactly what they need to do both: unlimited upskilling, tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, and 100% paid healthcare, plus flexible benefits.

We are seeking Software Integration Engineers who wish to accelerate their skills and focus on tackling the most difficult challenges of the US Government, in one of the most exciting areas of the mission available. GIGATEC offers the best salaries and benefits packages available, where you are at the center of our motivation.

NOTE – Our positions require a Top Secret clearance, as well as the favorable completion of a polygraph. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.  

Requirements

What You’ll Be Doing (We don’t love the bullet points, but we love the work!)

Get ready for an exhilarating role where you'll be the driving force behind Software Integration to optimize efficiency of software to production! You'll be installing, monitoring, and developing cutting edge software tools to maintain the Agency’s High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. This includes supporting a PaaS Linux containerized environment ‘on-prem’ cloud offering with top tier software like Kubernetes, Docker, Rook within a DevOps culture.

You will get to work with cutting edge systems which might include (but are likely not limited to) processing intensive analytics (remember, this is HPC), novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets (again, HPC!), real-time systems, business management information systems, and systems which incorporate data repositories, data transport services, and application and systems development and monitoring. All being critical to the success of the customer and the overall mission at large.

Required Skills

– Experience using the Linux CLI

– Ability to write scripts using Bash/Python
– Experience managing compute, network, memory, and storage system components. 

– Knowledge of IaC concepts, principles, best practices and automation tools e.g., Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet

– In-depth experience with troubleshooting large Linux Clusters 

– Familiarity of system monitoring tools e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk

– Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker

– Experience  administrating/monitoring Kubernetes clusters 

– Experience with the Atlassian applications such as Jira, Confluence

– Experience with version control systems e.g., Git 

Desired Skills

– Experience using Helm to deploy Kubernetes applications  

– Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines

– Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles

Qualifications

– (8) years’ experience 

– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline