Senior Software Integration Engineer

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, Synergy ECP is a leading provider of cybersecurity, software and systems engineering and IT services to the U.S. intelligence and defense communities. The company leverages its expertise in data transport solutions, software and systems engineering, and other solutions to deliver critical and innovative capabilities to high-level decision makers that enhance our nation’s security.

In an ultra‑competitive environment, Synergy ECP has thrived by adhering to our name, making sure excellence is displayed by our employees, to our customers and by Improving Performance (ECP). It’s what sets us apart, enabling us to be an autonomous yet agile business that delivers huge results—showing we’re ready to meet our customers’ evolving demands. Synergy ECP has earned a client list that includes numerous Fortune 100 companies, in addition to multiple branches of the U.S. government and military services.

The Software Integration Engineer shall develop software Tools and Services in a PaaS Linux environment supporting an ‘on‑prem’ cloud offering with open source software using Kubernetes, Docker, Rook and other cutting edge software. Expertise and desire to work in a containerized landlord/tenant environment is essential. The Software Integration Engineer shall support the development of Tools and Services that increase the efficiency of software to production within a Dev Ops culture.

Provides expertise in integrating, installing, configuring, upgrading, compiling and supporting COTS/GOTS software in a heterogeneous operating system environment.

• Ability to integrate, install, configure, upgrade, compile, and support COTS/GOTS software
• Generate documentation for the full software stack
• Update software for sustainment support
• Basic Linux system administration skills and shell scripting
• Execute test codes for characterization of software performance
• Provide software product ownership for HPC tools
• Working knowledge of CM tools, web documentation, and issue tracking
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and switch between various architectural paradigms

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and have at least eight (8) years of demonstrable experience with integrating, installing, configuring, upgrading, compiling, and supporting COTS/GOTS software in a heterogeneous operating system environment

OR

The individual shall have five (5) years full time Computer Science directly related work that can be substituted for a degree and have at least eight (8) years of demonstrable experience

OR

An industry recognized professional certification, as defined in the TT0s, may substitute as one (1) year experience. A Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field may substitute for two (2) years' experience

• Experience with Linux CLI
• Experience writing scripts using Bash/Python
• General technical knowledge regarding compute, network, memory, and storage system components
• Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) principles and automation tools such as Salt Stack, Puppet, and Ansible
• In‑depth experience with trouble‑shooting large Linux Clusters
• Demonstrated experience using system monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
• Demonstrated experience administrating/monitoring Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Confluence)
• Experience using Git for version control

• Experience using Helm to deploy Kubernetes applications
• Experience using Git Lab CI/CD pipelines
• Familiar with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and applications

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