Overview

Are you ready to take the next step in your career with Castalia Systems?

We’re looking for growth-oriented stars looking to thrive as part of our growing Castalia team! Diversity is what makes our company great, and we’re looking for top talent to come be a part of the difference.

When founded in 2011, the vision of Castalia Systems was to create a company that focused on its people - the Castalia family - while providing advanced solutions to clients with honesty and integrity. Castalia Systems is a Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Small Disadvantage Business (SDB) providing top-tier solutions in the Defense and Intelligence space.

Castalia employees love working here because we put them first.

We know benefits are important, and our package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k matching with day one vesting, generous PTO and paid holidays, paid life insurance, AD&D, long/short-term disability, professional training, tuition reimbursement, and many more!

The Role:

Castalia Systems is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment; including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Castalia is seeking a SAFe Prin. Software Engineer (Cloud) to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities. 

Title: SAFe Prin. Software Engineer

Location: Dulles, VA

On-site Only

Responsibilities

How You’ll Impact:

• Leading and collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as an Agile Release Train (ART) lead responsible for developing advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer• Leading and facilitating program & team-related Agile events (PI Planning, Release Governance, Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, etc.) while maintaining all artifacts (Backlogs, Decisions, Blockers, etc.)• Eliminating impediments and actively addressing issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the Program Increment (PI)• Escalating as needed when blocking issues are beyond a team’s authority or require support from other teams• Fostering a collaborative team environment through coaching & leading appropriately• Leading and facilitating preparation & readiness for ART events & assisting teams in preparation for ART activities (e.g., PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, etc.)• Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor responsible for the design, test and implementation of advanced cybersecurity infrastructure capabilities• Review high quality technical documentation, including user guides, test plans, and contract deliverable items and supporting product training• Development of risk assessments and risk mitigation countermeasures• Defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision• Leading Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities• Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.• Full lifecycle oversight of requirements driven automation architecture

Qualifications

What You Bring:

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship• Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability• Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading projects• Demonstrated experience with Lean-Agile principles, metrics, and technology and/or experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma• Experience communicating with senior leadership, either at Customer, VP, or Director levels• Ability to shape key stakeholder direction and influence outcomes through the analysis of information and identification of relevant facts• Independently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills• 10 years of professional experience in a technology related field• 5 years direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous api driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, event driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration driven deployments• 2 years of experience in either AWS, MS Azure or GCP• Strong working knowledge of either multi-environment autonomous orchestration, automation tooling, pipeline deployments, or software application integration

Desired Skills:

• Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level
• Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like CloudFormation
• Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby)
• Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows
• Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories
• Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines,
• AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
• Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures
• Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
• Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.Desired Certifications:• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner• Certifications related to Agile development and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Practitioner (SP) or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)

Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.