Software Engineer 3 - (Java, Python, Docker)

Clearance: TS/SCI - Polygraph required
Position ID: 20-8-004-SWE3
Location: Fort Meade, Maryland

Description:

You will be a member of the Mission Intelligence (MI) team supporting a variety of data engineering, analysis, and automation efforts. The MI team maintains a business intelligence platform supporting data-driven decisions in the enterprise. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the availability of this mission-essential platform. You will also contribute to the MI team as a software engineer and analytic developer where you will design, develop, and integrate solutions involving the analysis of large data sets to establish mission cognizance and deliver mission-centric insights.

• Incrementally incorporate site reliability engineering principles into the existing operational platform.
• Maintain and advance a mission-essential business intelligence platform.
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders, gather and analyze available data, and develop solutions for delivering key metrics.
• Develop analytics to combine, normalize, and enrich large data sets.
• Design and implement ETL workflows to convert and normalize data.
• Augment the platform with new tools or technologies.
• Provide guidance to more junior software engineers and data scientists.
• Communicate clearly through written documentation.

Position Required Skills:

• Strong customer service mindset.
• Production-grade software development experience in Java and Python.
• Experience or familiarity with site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.
• Familiarity with customer authentication and authorization platforms and standards.
• Experience with productizing software as containers and deployment with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Confidence with Git and Gitlab for software version control.
• Confidence with basic to intermediate Linux System Administration tasks.
• Willingness to contribute to internal and customer-facing written documentation.

Position Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with Apache NiFi
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch and Kibana
• Familiarity with Kubernetes
• Knowledge of map-reduce analytic environments (e.g., Hadoop)
• Knowledge of end-to-end SIGINT collection and analysis systems.
• Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations.
• Experience with frontend UI development

SWE3 Qualifications:

12 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.

Salary Range: **$232k-$283k (Annually)

**The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.

Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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