Senior COTS Integrator

Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journal's (BBJ) Best Places to Work 2019, runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021!


Belay Technologies is seeking a Senior COTS Integrator to join our intel team. The selected candidate will work on a team building performance-monitoring solutions for systems. The candidate will leverage the Jenkins automated execution architecture for automated performance checks. The candidate will instrument different environments in order to capture performance metrics and will build software leveraging REST APIs to automate the capture of metrics. The candidate will utilize Elastic stack to store performance metrics and develop visualizations of the performance metrics. The candidate will integrate open source and COTS products in a secure environment with PKI-based authentication, corporate authorization services, firewalls, and SSL/TLS communications. The ideal candidate must possess a good understanding of network, operating system, application, and end-point performance. The candidate must have strong communication and collaboration skills and be results-oriented.


Candidates should have the following qualifications:

• TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph
• Twelve (12) years of experience in software development/engineering bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or related discipline. Four (4) years of additional software development experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• Experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), including Elastic Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Installing, updating, and/or maintaining multiple Elastic Stack environments
• Creating and modifying Logstash pipelines
• Creating and modifying Kibana visualizations
• Instrumenting systems with Elastic Agent and Elastic APM Agent
• Experience with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP)
• Experience with Python and/or Vega programming
• Familiarity with web application technologies (e.g., html, JavaScript, web servers, and application servers)
• Proficient in UNIX commands
• Proficient in Windows

Candidates are desired to have the following skills:

• Experience with MicroFocus Business Service Management (BSM) tool suite:
• MicroFocus SiteScope
• MicroFocus Operations Manager i (OMi)
• Experience with AWS Cloud
• Experience with NiFi
• Experience with Jenkins
• Experience with Selenium
• Experience with Ansible or Terraform
• System administration background

Perks and Benefits:

• 8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday,11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay's volunteer program
• 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one
• $5,000 annual training/tuition
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• 100% company-funded HSA
• Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance)
• Dental coverage including orthodontia
• Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded
• Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games and prizes
• Pet adoption program, generous referral bonus program, fun events, and more!

At Belay, we are committed to creating an environment where you can thrive both professionally and personally. We believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. Several factors influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, education, specific skills and competencies and certifications. Belay offers a competitive total compensation package that includes benefits and perks, a flexible work-life balance, and career development.

Salary Range: $168,000 to $240,000

Belay Technologies is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business located in Columbia, Maryland (Baltimore/Washington area). Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development. Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We hire software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.