Software Integration Engineer

Responsibilities

• Ensure the maximum availability, stability and health of required program resources below to support operations, experimentation, development and testing.
• JFN MLS operational architecture including nodes, hub, network, software baseline and CI/CD apparatus (e.g. IL-5 up to IL-7 Cloud).
• Develop and maintain automated reporting mechanism using commercial or customer dashboards for reporting overall system health and status.
• Provide software sustainment leveraging software configuration management controls and processes.
• Establish and improve existing engineering processes and tools to provide system status by leveraging Platform/Applications/Data monitoring tools.
• Contribute to the design and development of automating the daily verification and validation of key functional capabilities.
• Support the automation of configuration management and the visibility into the status of CM across various environments.
• Implement and promote systems engineering principles to ensure program success.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability of the systems.
• Establish a Standard Operations Procedure (SOP) to leverage CI/CD pipelines and Automated Testing Tools to audit, verify, update, patch and manage Systems.
• Identify, investigate and document system deficiencies to support Technical Operations.
• Design, develop, integrate, and deploy a Hybrid Container/Virtualization Platform as a Service (HCVP) solution to support enterprise-scale hosting of containerized and virtualized workloads across multiple environments and enclaves on-prem and in the cloud.
• Collaborate with platform architects, security engineers, and application teams to onboard vendor and mission software onto the HCVP, ensuring compatibility, scalability, and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Partner with helpdesk, platform engineers, network engineers, site reliability engineers to promote best practices in escalation and incident response during incidents, troubleshooting efforts, and drive root cause analysis.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to support Authority to Operate (ATO) efforts, vulnerability remediation, and continuous compliance monitoring.
• Configure and tune container runtimes, CNI/CSI plugins, ingress controllers, service meshes, and cluster networking to meet performance, availability, and security requirements.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) automation to support repeatable, auditable platform deployments.
• Support GPU-enabled workload integration, including driver configuration, device plugins, and scheduling for AI/ML computing use cases.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders on containerization, virtualization, and cloud-native best practices.

Qualifications

• TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Years of experience can be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Experience with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with virtualization VMware, vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux KVM.
• Experience with Kubernetes distros (e.g., RKE2, EKS, K8s)
• Experience with on-prem and cloud similarities and differences.
• Experience in automation tools and techniques, including configuration management and system validation.
• Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk)
• Experience with DevSecOps practices such as continuous integration and development tools (e.g. ArgoCD, GitLab Runners, Jenkins)
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).
• Knowledge of application integration testing and automated testing frameworks.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with application providers.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities, with experience in reporting project status to leadership.
• Familiarity with modern IT frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Agile, ITIL).
• Understanding of business and technical alignment to achieve organizational goals.

Pay

$120,001 - $160,000

Schedule

Full-Time

Benefits

No specific benefits mentioned.