3 days ago
Aberdeen, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$157k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with government and industry stakeholders to develop, test, integrate, and field command-and-control software, data integrations, and mission capabilities.
- Interface with Army units and government leads to understand operational needs, recommend technical solutions, communicate status, and align priorities and deliverables.
- Identify opportunities to accelerate delivery, improve efficiency, and mitigate programmatic and technical risks.
- Deliver timely, high-quality technical products, solutions, and capabilities to customers.
- Build, lead, mentor, and direct a five-person engineering team to achieve program objectives and customer outcomes.
- Report status, opportunities, and challenges to internal management and manage task budgets.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with typically 8 years of related experience, or a master’s degree with 6 years, or a PhD with 3 years, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Proficiency in Java and/or Python and experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
- Experience with Git, GitLab/GitHub workflows, branching strategies, and collaborative development practices.
- Hands-on experience with unit and integration testing frameworks such as JUnit or pytest, and experience in Windows and Linux environments.
- Experience delivering containerized and cloud-native applications with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of microservices and command-and-control architectures, with familiarity with military standards or protocols such as VMF, USMTF, CoT, or Link 16/JREAP.
- Experience in secure government or Department of Defense environments, including RMF, STIG compliance, PKI/CAC authentication, or development within a government program or contract.
- Active Secret U.S. government security clearance and eligibility to obtain and maintain Top Secret/SCI clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for security clearance eligibility.
- Preferred experience with Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, data modeling, mapping, schema design, and data engineering pipelines.
- Preferred experience leading engineering teams, developing customer relationships, and working with Army and Joint platforms, radios, data sources, C2 software, hardware, edge compute, and capability integration.
- Preferred experience with Swagger/OpenAPI, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, ETL pipelines, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch.
- Preferred familiarity with Helm, Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Ansible, Terraform, DevSecOps, and classified or air-gapped environments using Iron Bank hardened container images.
- A relevant master’s degree and active Top Secret/SCI clearance are preferred.
Benefits
- MITRE offers competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- The position is onsite and requires a minimum of three days per week on site.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaDockerElasticsearchGitGitLab CI/CDgRPCHelmJavaJenkinsJUnitKubernetesLinuxMongoDBPostgreSQLpytestPythonTerraformWindows
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About MITRE
MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defense, cybersecurity, aviation, and healthcare. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, MITRE runs FFRDCs for sponsors including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and health agencies.