Systems Engineer - Level III with Security Clearance

For more than a decade, Karthik Consulting has been a reliable and trusted advisor to our Government customers, providing independent and unbiased recommendations and solutions to mitigate risk and help solve IT issues. We bring the innovation, passion, and agility of the commercial sector to meet the unique challenges of this competitive space. Karthik Consulting is seeking Systems Engineer - Level III with the below skillset.

Systems Engineer - Level III
Fulltime with Karthik Consulting
Location: San Diego, CA
Clearance: Active Top Secret/SCI  Active Top Secret/SCI or TS/SCI Eligible with completed Tier 5 investigation at time of submission
 Minimum of Seven (7) + years of demonstrated experience in full lifecycle software development for containerized, virtual machine, and cloud-based architectures across multiple security domains (Unclassified, Secret, Top Secret) using Agile methodologies.
 Minimum of four (4) years of demonstrated experience applying DevSecOps principles, such as configuring automated security testing tools (SAST/DAST/SCA and container scanners) as quality gates directly in the CI /CD pipeline within highly regulated, government-mandated pipelines (e.g., Overmatch Software Armory (OSA) or equivalent DoD enterprise DevSecOps environments).
 Minimum of - three (3) years of demonstrated experience engineering, integrating, and troubleshooting interoperable software systems within critical defense platforms in Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited-bandwidth (DDIL), afloat, and ashore Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments including but not limited to Navy's Agile Core Services (ACS), USMC's Common Hosting Environment (CHE), and architecture designed for Five Eyes (FVEY) partner interoperability.