Software Developer (Systems Software) (TS/SCI + Poly) with Security Clearance

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Job description

Description The DarkStar Group is seeking a Software Developer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Chantilly, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program. THE PROGRAM The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest. THE PROJECT The Sponsor's office is responsible for developing and managing enterprise business systems used every day to operate and manage the Sponsor's mission. Sponsor capabilities serve the wide-ranging business needs of the mission, from human resources, financial, acquisition, medical, security, travel, supply chain, facilities, and support integration. Sponsor's enterprise systems are critical to its mission. These business technologies are a heterogeneous mix of custom applications, Commercial off the Shelf (COTS), and middleware that evolved organically and separately over time.
The Sponsor's organization values highly agile software development and the ability to quickly demonstrate value to mission. Values embodied by the Sponsor's organization include: continuous improvement, continuous learning, knowledge sharing, accessibility, user experience, community-driven software development models, loosely coupled architectures, improvement of customer and developer experiences, and adaptability.
The Sponsor is looking for a team to help the Sponsor in identifying, evaluating and adopting technologies to improve business applications and support operations by planning, designing, building, managing, and expanding the Sponsor's CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipeline. The CI/CD pipeline is the Sponsor's current core DevSecOps environment and the Sponsor desires to expand its functionality and adoption.
THE ROLE Implement CI/CD designs for applications being supported in the CI/CD pipeline.
Maintain and maintain DevSecOps solutions.
Support customer adoption plans of DevSecOps processes and tools.
Write software delivery pipelines.
Create reusable libraries that can be applied across the Sponsor's organization.
Facilitate implementation of Sponsor's DevSecOps approach.
Support individual team adoption of the Sponsor's DevSecOps approach.
Continually evaluate the DevSecOps approach with current industry standards, with a focus on automation, security, and performance.
Define the DevSecOps process changes, governance, and standards.
Document the DevSecOps process changes, governance, and standards.
Assist Sponsor to identify, evaluate and adopt technologies to improve business applications and support operations.
Required Skills Demonstrated experience implementing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment, incorporating automated software quality checks, security scanning, infrastructure-as-code, and other modern DevSecOps tools and practices.
Demonstrated experience marrying Agile development methodology with modern DevSecOps methodologies at scale.
Demonstrated experience implementing of end-to-end automation of a CI/CD pipeline from build through deploy.
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing modern secure resilient applications.
Demonstrated experience implementing Security best practices.
Demonstrated experience in platform and application automated deployment.
Demonstrated experience with configuration management.
Demonstrated experience completing the ICD503 process.
Demonstrated experience using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.
Demonstrated experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, Rancher (RKE2).
Demonstrated experience using requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
Demonstrated experience using SQL.
Demonstrated experience scripting using Python or Javascript.
Demonstrated experience programming using Java and Spring.
Demonstrated experience with DevSecOps and DevSecOps related tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, and Puppet.
Demonstrated experience developing DevSecOps metrics such as Lead time and Deployment Frequency.
Demonstrated experience operating, configuring and maintaining Nexus and Jenkins to support enterprise delivery and operations, as well as availability requirements.
Demonstrated experience integrating and deploying application performance monitoring such as AppDynamics.
Demonstrated experience presenting and communicating technical designs and implementations to non-technical audiences.
Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy software through as-is assessments and identification of technical debt.
Desired Skills (Optional) Demonstrated experience implementing automated integration with Sponsor's IT Operations change management platform and adhering to its business operation processes.
Demonstrated experience using other, non-AWS cloud service providers.
Demonstrated experience performing DevOps practices with COTS.
Demonstrated experience implementing Secrets Management and Automation such as Hashicorp Vault.
Demonstrated experience implementing SonaType IQ.
Demonstrated experience using data produced by CI/CD processes for Machine Learning to gain insights about the pipeline (DevML, OpsML). About The DarkStar Group Our Company The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. Our Benefits The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits: very strong salaries;
100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
a generously-funded HSA;
an 8% 401(k) contribution; 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
a generous training budget;
$25,000 employee referral bonuses;
business development / growth incentives; and
top notch company swag.
We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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