Backend Software Engineer with Security Clearance

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a relevant technical discipline and 2+ year of related experience obtained through any combination of coursework and internships.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Confluent Kafka, including schema management, stream processing, and Kafka Connect.
• Experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for logging, monitoring, and observability.
• Prior experience with implementing enterprise data lakes, ETL pipelines, and distributed data architectures.
• Proficient in AWS services relevant to data platforms (e.g., EC2, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Experience deploying and managing workloads in OpenShift or Kubernetes-based environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration best practices.
• Effectively managing remotely with a geographically dispersed team.
• Working knowledge of DISA STIGs, RMF, and other DoD compliance frameworks.
• Strong background in data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• Develop DoD requirements, traceability, and detailed plans/schedules.
• Development of software systems engineering documents and interface documents (IDDs/ICDs)
• Strong understanding of DoD network infrastructure, security requirements, and data exchange protocols.
• Experience in application integration design and strong communication skills for collaboration with virtual teams.
• Proficiency in data integration technologies, APIs, message brokers, and middleware solutions.
• Experience with network security, encryption, and access controls in classified and unclassified environments.
• Prior experience in big data analytics or cybersecurity solutions within a DISN environment
• Background in observability platforms, incident response, or real-time analytics.
• Software development experience with Python, Java and SQL. Working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript.
• Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.
• Ability to obtain interim Secret DoD Security clearance prior to start date.
• Ability to obtain Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 60 days of start date.
• Experience in architecture, design, develop, and delivery of data driven operations capabilities, within a DoD environment.
• Experience using project management tools such as Jira and Confluence to document requirements, acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with and convey focused messages to stakeholders, customers, domain experts, program managers and teammates.