Software Engineer 3

Position Summary Support the NMEC DOMEX Technology Platform and D3P Modernization effort by designing, deploying, and maintaining a full-stack containerized microservices architecture in a mission-focused engineering environment. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes with Elasticsearch backend and Kafka messaging. Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes. Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure including physical and virtualized environments. Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments in support of new feature requirements. Collaborate with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams. Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and related meetings. Required Qualifications Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph. Bachelor's degree with a minimum of six years of experience in the category field. Three additional years of experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree. Strong Linux proficiency. Hands‑on experience with containers and Kubernetes. Experience with CI/CD orchestration and GitLab. Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Demonstrated success working in cross‑functional engineering environments. Preferred Qualifications Experience operating systems at scale. Knowledge of Agile methodologies. Development experience with Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, or Java. Experience supporting enterprise or production systems. Familiarity with Kafka or other messaging systems, Kubernetes monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, GPU‑based Kubernetes, SALT for deployment automation, Helm/Helmfile, and Nexus. Required Education and Experience Equivalency High School Diploma/GED – 9 years of experience Associates Degree – 9 years of experience Bachelors’ Degree – 6 years of experience Masters’ Degree – 6 years of experience PhD – 6 years of experience Required Certifications None specified. Required Security Clearance Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph. #J-18808-Ljbffr