Software Engineer - CI/CD (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

***This job requires active  TS/SCI clearance. Please apply only if you have an active  TS/SCI clearance. ***

North Point Technology is looking for a TS/SCI Cleared Software Engineers to support a critical mission. The GEOINT Collection neXt (GCX) Program, awarded May 25 as a 7-year contract, is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the GEOINT Information Management Services (GIMS) system. GIMS is a mission-critical enterprise platform that acts as the primary gateway for submitting and adjudicating GEOINT Information Needs (GINs) and related requirements. It enables users to search, discover, and retrieve imagery and other GEOINT data, while centrally managing collection, exploitation, dissemination, and production tasks across a broad network of commercial and national providers.

The program employs DevSecOps and Agile practices, emphasizing communication, collaboration, integration, automation, and performance measurement between software developers and IT professionals. Above all, the program prioritizes operational stability.

The selected candidate will join a scrum team within the development organization, supporting a range of activities, including:
• Planning, executing, and coordinating Agile software development tasks.
• Designing, building, documenting, testing, and debugging software solutions that address critical mission needs through logical and mathematical methods.
• Implementing established standards, processes, procedures, and tools across the full development life cycle.
• Leveraging knowledge of computer hardware/software, mission/business application domains, information processing techniques, and user input to design and develop software.
• Identifying and correcting program errors, creating and maintaining development documentation, and analyzing system functionality to clarify program intent, output requirements, data inputs, techniques, and controls.
• Defining, applying, and validating compliance with software standards.

Responsibilities:

Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads across dev/test/prod, and implement core Kubernetes platform capabilities (RBAC, networking, ingress, secrets, autoscaling, and upgrades). Package and deploy services with Helm/Kustomize using repeatable release strategies, automate environments with IaC, and embed DevSecOps controls and GitOps standards. Improve operability with strong observability and incident practices, partner with application teams to onboard and troubleshoot, harden the software supply chain and artifact flow, and document platform patterns and templates to scale adoption.

Required Qualifications:

• TS/SCI Clearance


• BS in Software Engineering or related field


• 2-10 years of experience in CI/CD and Kubernetes-focused engineering or SRE/Platform Engineering


• Strong Kubernetes skills - core objects, scheduling, RBAC, networking, storage, upgrades, troubleshooting


• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar)


• Experience with Helm and at least one IaC tool (Terraform preferred)


• Experience operating container platforms (Docker/OCI), registries, and image lifecycle management


• Proficiency with Linux and scripting (Bash and/or Python); comfort debugging distributed systems


• Experience implementing security controls in pipelines (scanning, secrets handling, least privilege, policy)


• Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, Splunk, Datadog, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with NGA CORE (Common Operations Release Environment) - a DevSecOps environment with an integrated CI/CD pipeline and a Kubernetes-based PaaS.


• Experience supporting Kubernetes deployment and container orchestration across multiple security domains / networks in government or IC environments


• Hands-on GitOps operations (Argo CD/Flux), including multi-tenant cluster patterns


• Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno) and admission control guardrails


• Experience with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and zero-trust-friendly network segmentation


• Experience building reusable platform “golden paths” (pipeline templates, Helm charts, scaffolding)


• Strong background in platform hardening - supply chain security, artifact signing, provenance, SBOM workflows


• Familiarity with compliance and ATO workflows in regulated environments (RMF/NIST controls)


• Large-scale software development experience, including:




• Agile development with familiarity in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) using VersionOne


• Experience with Angular, DOJO, Oracle WebLogic, Tomcat


• Databases: Oracle DBMS, Postgres DBMS, SQL, PL/SQL


• Operating systems: UNIX/Linux


• Web/automation technologies: HTML, Selenium, JavaScript, EJB, Web Services, Microservices (Docker & Kubernetes), REST, XML, UML


• Development tools: Eclipse or NetBeans


• Deployment architectures and CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Git/JIRA, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Conductor, Kafka/Zookeeper, Consul, CMDB


• Big data technologies, including:




• Data ingest: JSON, Kafka, Microservices, Elasticsearch


• Analytics: Hive, Spark, R, Pig, Oozie workflows


• Hadoop ecosystem: Hive data, Oozie, Spark, Pig, Impala, Hue


• COTS integration: Knowi, MongoDB, Oracle, MySQL RDS, Elastic, Logstash, Kibana, Zookeeper, Consul, Hadoop/HDFS


• Containerization/configuration tools: Docker, Chef

North Point Technology is THE BEST place to work for curious-minded engineers motivated to support our country’s most crucial missions! We focus on long term projects, leveraging the latest technology in support of innovative solutions to solve our customer’s most difficult problems.

At North Point Technology, EMPLOYEES come first! We value our employees by providing excellent compensation, benefits, and a flexible work-life balance. We strive for a close-knit and open atmosphere where the owners are always directly available to our team members.  

Come join us! Apply with North Point Technology today! 

For positions requiring a federal security clearance, your clearance level must be clearly identified on your resume.