About this role
<p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Job Title: Specialist, Software Engineering </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Job Code: 38011</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Job Location: Palm Bay, FL</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Job Schedule: 9/80</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Job Description:</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in -0.25pt;text-indent:-0.5pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">The SWO-MOS Cloud team leverages Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) in delivering modern solutions to support customer operations and information management services. We value a strong knowledge of software development best practices and experience delivering & deploying Cloud-ready applications and services. Seeking experienced Software Engineers to join our dynamic team, focusing on operating, maintaining, and sustaining an AWS cloud operational system.<span style="color:black;background-color:white"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Essential Functions:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Design and implement software for satellite ground systems, including TT&C, mission management, data ingest, processing pipelines, and operator workflows.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Monitor and implement updates from AWS and third-party suppliers</span></li> <li style="margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Maintain and enhance our Kubernetes-based cloud architecture </span></li> <li style="color:#1c2127;margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Proficiency in Python, Java or C++ programming languages</span></li> <li style="color:#1c2127;margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Support Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions including single sign on, active directory, or Keycloak</span></li> <li style="color:#1c2127;margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Assist in cloud migration of applications</span></li> <li style="color:#1c2127;margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Write and maintain comprehensive documentation for developers, administrators, and operators</span></li> <li style="color:#1c2127;margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Ensuring consistency across the baseline (version tagging, naming schemes)</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Develop secure, reliable, and maintainable software using modern engineering and DevSecOps practices.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Write automated unit, integration, and system tests, including negative and failure-mode scenarios.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Support system architecture, interface definition, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Collaborate with mission operations, systems engineering, cybersecurity, and test teams to deliver operationally ready capabilities.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Contribute to documentation including requirements traceability, interface control documentation, design artifacts, and user/developer guides.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="color:#1c2127;margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Ability to obtain a High-Risk NOAA Public Trust clearance.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Qualifications:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience developing and deploying containerized applications using Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or equivalent.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience with the Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) and Custom Resource Definitions (CRD)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience of networking principles and security best practices in an AWS cloud environment</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience with Linux environments, including scripting, configuration, and software deployment.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CDK, OpenTofu, Cloud Formation).</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience with container deployment including YAML manifests, Helm and ArgoCD</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a"><br>Preferred Additional Skills:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Familiarity with Agile workflow tools and collaborative version‑control practices (Git, JIRA, Confluence, etc.)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience with container observability tools such as Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes package management</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience with security best practices in cloud environments</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Splunk, CloudWatch, etc.)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Experience with iterative software development processes (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#1c2127">AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Associate</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#d9d9d9"><br>#LI-KB1</span></p>