• Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
• Type: Contract
• Job #2687

Title: Software Integration Engineer 
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government.  Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission.  Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems.  If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

LCAT Description: Provides expertise in integrating, installing, configuring, upgrading, compiling and supporting COTS/GOTS software in a heterogeneous operating system environment.

The Level III Software Integration Engineer (SIE) shall possess the following capabilities:

• Ability to integrate, install, configure, upgrade, compile, and support COTS/GOTS software.
• Generate documentation for the full software stack.
• Update software for sustainment support.
• Basic Linux system administration skills and shell scripting.
• Execute test codes for characterization of software performance.
• Provide software product ownership for HPC tools.
• Working knowledge of CM tools, web documentation, and issue tracking.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and switch between various architectural paradigms.

SIE-3 Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and have at least eight (8) years of demonstrable experience with integrating, installing, configuring, upgrading, compiling, and supporting COTS/GOTS software in a heterogeneous operating system environment.
OR
The individual shall have five (5) years full time Computer Science directly related work that can be substituted for a degree and have at least eight (8) years of demonstrable experience.
OR
An industry recognized professional certification, as defined in the TT0s, may substitute as one (1) year experience. A Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field may substitute for two (2) years' experience.

Position Description
The contractor shall be responsible for the installation, configuration, integration, evaluation, and sustainment of various COTS, GOTS, and FOSS software tools, packages and libraries. Additional tasking shall include automating system software integration plans in support of the program’s integration strategy.

Position Required Skills
 

• Experience using the Linux CLI
• Experience developing scripts using Bash/Python
• Experience with IaC concepts and automation tools including Ansible
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite infrastructure system management software
• Experience performing Linux System Administration tasks including operation system configuration, software installation, file systems and network systems
• Experience with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and DevOps tools including GitLab CI
• Familiar with software frameworks used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing big data such as Elastic Stack and Splunk

• Familiar with metrics visualization technologies such as Grafana and Kibana

Position Desired Skills
 

• Experience with the Atlassian Suite of Tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
• Experience with Git Source Control System

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