Software Operations Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking aTop Secret Cleared Software Integration Engineer
to support our customers' Technical Engineering and Design Department in support of the United States Air Force customer.The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in the development and implementation of tools and process to ensure the maximum availability, stability and health of the program’s complex systems.

communicated throughout the System Integration Lifecycle.

Clearance
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Top Secret cleared, TS/SCI preferred

Location
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Positions available in San Diego and Honolulu

Schedule
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Fully on site, customer-facing

• Will perform system monitoring and remediation of issues to ensure uptime requirements are met for the critical systems.
• Provide technical support to improve clients capabilities through the development and continuous improvement of the JFN and JMIE systems.(JFN:
  
  MLS operational architecture including nodes, hub, network, software baseline and CI/CD apparatus (e.g. IL-5 up to IL-7 Cloud.
• Develop and maintain automated reporting mechanism using commercial or customer dashboards for reporting overall system health and status.
• Provide software sustainment leveraging software configuration management controls and processes.
• Contribute to the design and development of automating the daily verification and validation of key functional capabilities.
• Support the automation of configuration management and the visibility into the status of CM across various environments.

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience;
  Masters and seven (7) years or more experience.
• Experience in automation tools and techniques, including configuration management and system validation.
• Experience with system monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk.)
• Experience with Virtualization: VMware, vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux KVM.
• Experience with Dev Sec Ops  practices such as continuous integration and development tools (e.g.Jenkins, Git Lab Runners.)
• Experience with Kubernetes distros (RKE2, EKS, K8s, etc.)
• Experience with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).
• Knowledge of application integration testing and automated testing frameworks.
• U.S. Citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance.
• IAT Level II certification.

• Compensation: $130,000 - $170,000+
  ** based on years of experience**
• Full Benefits:
  Cigna Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, PTO/Holiday, Sick leave as required by state law

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This job opens for applications on 1/30/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date