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Staff Engineer

Dulles, VA💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$150,000🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Spearhead end-to-end cluster and application lifecycles, setting benchmarks for security and efficiency in a real-time data platform for the Department of Defense.

Role type

Staff DevSecOps Engineer

Builds

Real-time data platform aggregating sensor data for mission planning and execution UI

Domain

Defense technology, distributed data systems, cloud-native infrastructure

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Calico, Cilium, Kafka, Pinot, Flink, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Kibana, Loki, troubleshooting, distributed systems

Preferred skills

Python, Go, Java, Scala, Kafka Streams, REST APIs, WebSensors, automated testing, Maven, Gradle, NPM, Yarn, security scanning, Agile/Scrum, government customer integration

Technologies

Kafka, Kafka Streams, Pinot, Java, Scala, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Calico, Cilium, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Kibana, Loki, Maven, Gradle, NPM, Yarn

Responsibilities

Develop and implement end-to-end cluster and application lifecycles, run stateful data-intensive services in containerized environments, build CI/CD pipelines with GitOps, integrate software components and subsystems, support formal integration and testing events, present technical status to government customers

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic oversight

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