Software Developer, Mid | TS/SCI

Customer Description

Our customer is an Intelligence Agency (IA) delivering world-class geospatial intelligence providing a decisive advantage to policymakers, war-fighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. The customer enables all these critical actions and shapes decisions impacting our world through the indispensable discipline of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT). Our customer is a unique combination of intelligence and combat support agency. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate, and actionable GEOINT. This IA enables the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and the Department of Defense (DOD) to fulfill the President’s national security priorities to protect the nation. Although GEOINT is the most critical data within this agency, all data that is produced, collected, and stored plays a supportive role in the day-to-day operations of our customer. 

Program Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a large GEOINT based contract used for search and dissemination across the Intel Community. Hosted in AWS, this system is a set of computer services that allows users to search and discover different types of GEOINT data that comes from different sources, whether it's internal to this Intel Agency or from other external sources. The system is comprised of various components that will be supported by two task orders. One of the task orders is to maintain all the existing services, the compute, the software and various components that allow the system to function. The second task order is an engineering and architecture task order that provides software engineering, devops and site reliability services to help modernize and fast-track the future of the overall system.

Team Description

Blackspoke is a trusted member of a larger team of strategic partners. This contract was just awarded and has the full 5-year contract life remaining. Work is to be performed onsite in Government and Contractor SCIF space in Springfield, VA and Arnold, MO. 

Job Description

Designs, develops, evaluates, plans and tests engineering specifications for software programs and applications.  Performs troubleshooting and maintenance of the test and operational environments as a part of a DevOps team. Our work depends on a DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis MO. 

• Participate in Agile ceremonies (standup, sprint planning, increment planning, etc) to support innovation and enhancement of applications through iteration/functionality testing
• Participate and collaborate with team members to assess story point/complexity efforts (using best practices) to ensure proper testing and delivery of functionality per User Story Acceptance Criteria
• Collaborate with team members (Scrum Master, Product Owner, DevOps Engineers, Software Developers, etc) to develop test approaches with an emphasis on automation of recurring/regression test cases through selected toolsets, Develop and document end-to-end functionality test case narratives using task management system (JIRA/Confluence)
• Provide early exploratory testing during the development phase
• Design, code and deploy automated test scripts
• Build and maintain environments (including but not limited to IaC, helm charts, code base), and provide hardening, configurations, and updates leveraging CI/CD pipelines
• Setup testing and operational configurations
• Troubleshoot and resolve operational incidents, coordinate upgrades and changes as needed
• Perform upgrade activities in test and operations environments
• Work on site to provide coverage for operations across multiple networks

Qualifications/Skills

Required:

• 5+ years of experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering or any related field/major, or 3 additional years of experience in information technology.
• Experience working in operations environments
• Knowledge and use of packages (e.g., BASH, CSS, DOS_BATCH, HTML, Java, JavaScript, PHP, PYTHON, SQL, XML, and Indexing/Search Technologies.
• Demonstrated experience working with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift or similar
• Technical certification DoD IATII 8570/8140 (CompTIA Security+)

Desired:

• Technical certifications specializing in Software Development, Containers, or Cloud Computing.
• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile development framework.