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 Software Engineer to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

 Title: Software Engineer

Location: Dulles, VA

On-site Only

Responsibilities

How You’ll Impact:

Responsibilities:

• Assists with the technical design for architecture, responsible for overall code quality ensuring a highly available and recoverable environment

• Assist with the design, prototype, implement, test, and deploy business rules and technical solutions

• Develop custom integration components and integrate legacy systems with platform using mid-server and other relevant technologies

• Document, maintain and update policies, procedures and controls for the platform operation and software development life cycle while promoting agile development.

Qualifications

What You Bring:

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship

• Active Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

• 6 years of directly relevant experience

• Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in infrastructure as Code, CI/CD Pipelines, and cloud orchestration

• Enterprise and/or IT Service Management

• Experience with gathering requirements, database design schemas, and data modeling

• Ability to create CI/CD Pipelines that substantially increased effectiveness and efficiency of Agile practice for programs using Agile/DevOps based metrics visualizations and dashboards.

• Ability to designed and develop metrics

• Minimum 2 Years of experience with IaC, Pipelines, and/or Orchestration

• Experience with process and solution integration, workflow design/configuration, and reporting

Desired Skills:

• Experience and/or familiarity with DevOps, DevSecOps, and Continuous Development / Continuous Integration concepts, and tools such as Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, NiFi, AWS, JIRA, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Junit, JMeter and/or Cucumber

• Technical understanding of cybersecurity attack techniques and associated mitigation techniques

Required Education:

BS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, OR Computer Systems Engineering. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

Desired Certifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP)- PMI

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)- ISACA

• ITIL Foundation v4 Certified or willing to complete one year from hire

• DODI 8570.1-M Compliance at IAT Level I

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.