Customer Description

Our customer is an Intelligence Agency (IA) delivering world-class geospatial intelligence providing a decisive advantage to policymakers, war-fighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. The customer enables all of these critical actions and shapes decisions impacting our world through the indispensable discipline of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT). Our customer is a unique combination of intelligence and combat support agency. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate, and actionable GEOINT. This IA enables the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and the Department of Defense (DOD) to fulfill the President’s national security priorities to protect the nation. Although GEOINT is the most critical data within this agency, all data that is produced, collected and stored plays a supportive role in the day-to-day operations of our customer.

Program Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a large GEOINT based contract used for search and dissemination across the Intel Community. Hosted in AWS, this system is a set of computer services that allows users to search and discover different types of GEOINT data that comes from different sources, whether it's internal to this Intel Agency or from other external sources. The system is comprised of various components that will be supported by two task orders. One of the task orders is to maintain all the existing services, the compute, the software and various components that allow the system to function. The second task order is an engineering and architecture task order that provides software engineering, devops and site reliability services to help modernize and fast-track the future of the overall system.

Team Description

Blackspoke is a trusted member of a larger team of strategic partners. This contract was just awarded and has the full 5-year contract life remaining. Work is to be performed onsite in Government and Contractor SCIF space in Springfield, VA or Arnold, MO.

Job Description

The Software Developer Sr. is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings. The software developer will be responsible for developing and deploying custom solutions to the customer's enterprise environment.

• Researches, designs, develops, tests, and/or modifies enterprise-wide systems and/or applications software
• Analyzes user/business software system requirements and determines needs
• Determine the functionality of an application and performs upgrades over time
• Maintains documentation to support software development policies, standards, and procedures
• Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems
• Works under the guidance of the Scrum Master to produce accurate delivery estimates and manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery
• Provides progress updates to Scrum Master and the team to ensure the management of any delivery risks or concerns
• Works with the team to plan future sprints, define stories and estimate efforts
• Works on a range of projects involving the implementation of new and existing systems, solutions, and processes
• Designs, implements, and maintains application code on various networks
• Contributes in all phases of the software development life cycle
• Writes well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensures designs are in compliance with specifications
• Recommends changes to improve established application processes
• Prepares and produces releases of software components
• Writes automated unit test cases and evaluation code quality using automated tools
• Writes automated integration test cases and resolves issues
• Supports formal testing and resolves test defects
• Provides technical support and consultation for application and infrastructure questions
• Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline
• Expert with at least one language and desire good experience with several others (Python, React, Java, etc.)
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps and software/application development processes
• Experience building and working with container images (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with utilizing CI/CD tools like GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores
• Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure
• Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
• 5 years of related software development experience
• Active TS/SCI Clearance with the eligibility to obtain a CI Poly.

Desired Core Skills:

• Experience with ElasticSearch, GoLang
• Front-end development skills (HTML/CSS/Sass/Less/JavaScript)
• Experience deploying to RedHat Openshift Container Platform
• Experience writing infrastructure as code (Helm/Terraform)
• Experience with GraphDBs (Neo4j/RedisGraph)
• Experience with Messaging Systems (NATS Jetstream/Pulsar)

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. Individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans or veterans with service-connected disabilities, are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance applying outside of the online application, please contact recruiting@blackspoke.com for more information.