Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Description

Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.

Visionist has an exciting new, fully FUNDED opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer - Platform on our largest PRIME contract. Our team of Analysts and Engineers is motivated by the direct impact on the mission, crafting specialized tools for enhanced efficiency and quick iterations for our operations user base. Seeing your tools in real-time action brings immediate gratification. This premier program encompasses traditional software services including Systems Design and Engineering, Database Administration, Data Science and Knowledge Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Integration and Test, as well as Operations and Systems Support. The program is characterized by innovation and excitement, fostering meaningful engagements, and offering distinctive collaboration opportunities with users, policy makers, and mission leadership, all while maintaining a service mindset. If you thrive in a collaborative work environment and enjoy utilizing a diverse tech stack, then this opportunity is tailor-made for you!

For over 15 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people-your job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nation's cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Don't just take our word for it-check out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor. Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs and more. Check us out at


Your contributions are...
- Lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure used by the organization's AI capabilities (AWS, Kubernetes)
- Translate high-level stakeholder goals into engineering outcomes and platform solutions
- Work within ambiguous problem spaces and define structured solutions the team can execute against
- Mentor engineers and grow development best practices, engineering standards, and technical governance for the team
- Establish and enforce security best practices for infrastructure systems and data, including certificate and identity management

Requirements for your new career...
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline. (Additional 4 years of experience may substitute degree)
- 12 years of experience in software development
- Experience with AWS services such as EKS, Terraform, IAM, and Route 53
- Experience with Kubernetes and Helm/Kustomize
- Experience with Docker/containerization
- Experience with Argo CD and/or other CI/CD frameworks
- Experience configuring and using observability tooling such as the Elastic Stack (Kibana) and Grafana/Prometheus
- Experience with certificate management and cloud-native security practices
- Experience supporting cloud-native architecture and maintaining production software and infrastructure
- Ability to take high-level mission goals and transform them into engineering outcomes
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
- Ability to balance hands-on engineering with leadership and coordination responsibilities

Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
- Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never "use or lose", 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime , AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,160/year )
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 - use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability


Salary range: $170,000 - $240,000
Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc.


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Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!

Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website!

U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.


Visionist, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.