Senior COTS Integrator

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

Department: NIS

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking a Senior System Engineer. Our mission supports the Government Corporate Management Services (CMS) by providing full life cycle support services through the sustainment, modernization, and transformation of the enterprise corporate applications. As soon as an employee enters a customer facility, they touch one of these applications which are critical to the daily functions of thousands of users across acquisition, business, finance, HR, training, recruitment, program management, security, logistics and more. Come join our diverse and growing team with lots of opportunities!

We are seeking a Senior COTS Integrator for one of our PRIME CONTRACTS that extends through 2026 

and offers exciting opportunities to support essential services and mission critical activities across the 

enterprise. Our mission supports the Government Corporate Management Services (CMS) by providing full life 

cycle support services through the sustainment, modernization, and transformation of the enterprise 

corporate applications. These applications are used across the government enterprise and are critical to the 

daily functions of thousands of users across acquisition, business, finance, HR, training, recruitment, program 

management, security, logistics and more. Come join our diverse and growing team with lots of 

opportunities! 

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. 

Required Qualifications:

• TS/SCI 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 

Desired: 

• 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 

Key Technologies: 

• Python, JavaScript, Perl, Vega 

• UNIX 

• Windows 

• AWS Cloud 

• MicroFocus Business Service Management tool suite 

• Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) 

The estimated salary range for this position is between $185,000-$240,000 (annualized USD). This range reflects the typical pay for the role and is one part of the company's comprehensive compensation package. Actual salaries are influenced by several factors, such as location, the individual’s education, skills, experience, and competencies, as well as contract affordability and organizational needs.