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STR

Defense, intelligence, homeland security R&D contractor

Senior Cloud Software Engineer

DevOps EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeArlington County, Arlington, VA, USA$138k - $185kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Must be a U.S. citizen.
  • Ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance.
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
  • Demonstrated experience working with DevSecOps pipelines, preferably on a Department of Defense development effort.
  • Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS or Azure in an IL4, IL5, or IL6 environment.
  • Proficiency with build, continuous integration, and continuous deployment tools such as Bazel, CMake, GCC, GitLab, Jenkins, GTest, GCov, and clang-tools.
  • Comfort working in Linux and Windows environments.
  • Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, WSL, and Podman, and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Swarm, and Rancher.
  • Familiarity with security scanning tools such as SonarQube, Coverity, Syft, Grype, Artifactory Xray with Advanced Security, Semgrep, and Anchore, and with best practices for secure design, coding, and analysis.
  • Familiarity with IT configuration and deployment management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Terraform.
  • Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, the ELK Stack, or Splunk.
  • General understanding of networking concepts and security protocols, and ability to configure and manage network security measures for development environments and tooling.
  • Strong scripting skills to write, maintain, and document automation and integrate tooling.
  • Knowledge of automation frameworks and tools to streamline repetitive tasks and manage complex workflows.
  • Familiarity with Atlassian Confluence, Jira, and Microsoft Office 365.

Responsibilities

  • Implement DevSecOps pipelines, including developing, deploying, maintaining, optimizing, and operating all phases of the DevSecOps process and toolchain.
  • Support DevSecOps pipelines in unclassified and classified environments using a variety of code quality tools.
  • Configure and maintain multiple development and DevOps environments at different classification levels, focusing on developer productivity, application performance, security monitoring, and alerting.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure team infrastructure toolsets are configured, maintained, and reliable in compliance with program requirements and Department of Defense standards.
  • Coach team members on DevSecOps best practices while continuously helping improve and automate processes.
  • Identify areas for improvement and implement enhancements.
  • Document pipeline architecture, tools, and user processes for modifying and updating pipelines.
  • Promote DevOps and DevSecOps and support the software team with tooling, environments, debugging, and testing.

Desired Qualifications

  • Active security clearance.
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
  • Domain expertise in one or more of the following areas: Electronic Warfare, Antenna Apertures, Sensor Resource Management, Large-Scale Platform Test Systems, Cyber Physical Systems, or Open System Architectures (UCI, OMS, COARPS).
  • Demonstrated expertise in C++, C++/CUDA, Python, or Java.
  • Experience with object-oriented programming principles.
  • Experience with Agile software lifecycle methodologies and tools.
  • Experience with test-driven development methodologies.

About the Company

STR

Defense, intelligence, homeland security R&D contractor

STR is an employee-owned technology firm serving national security agencies with R&D, software development, and integration under large federal contracts. Its three core areas are Analytics & C2, Cybersecurity, and Sensors, delivering AI-driven decision support, digital twins of embedded systems, and software-defined RF/acoustic hardware for multi-domain operations. Notable projects include DARPA's JAWS, AI for swarming drones, and sonar spoofing DSP, showing deep defense-domain focus. Its goal is to provide deployable technologies that enhance joint all-domain operations and situational awareness, while exploring commercial uses like automated medical imaging.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
N/A
Total funding
$283M
Headquarters
Woburn, MA
Founded
2010

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