Cloud Software Engineer

TS/SCI - FULL SCOPE POLYGRAPH REQUIRED FOR CONSIDERATION OF THIS ROLE
Description:
Provide cloud software research, development, and engineering services to include requirements
analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment,
testing, validation, and issue diagnosis/resolution.
SME with existing frameworks and design/engineering. Implement global resilient, next GEN cloud
native frameworks and hybrid cloud business models using containerization/orchestration and
functionable technologies. Possess advanced cloud base network troubleshooting capabilities.
Design and implement Zero Trust security posture. Ability to work with and deploy DEVOPS, DEVSECOPS
and continuous integration/development (CI/CD) pipelines such as GitLab within orchestration or other
cloud vender fabric. Ability to work with multiple cloud vendors and private cloud industry solutions
such as Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and OCI. Ability to work with and deploy cloud package managed
systems such as YUM Repos and WSUS within the hybrid cloud framework

Qualifications:
• With the most recent experience being no more than (1.5) years past, a minimum of sixteen
(16) years of experience programming with at least one (1) object-oriented language, such as
but not limited to Java, Python, C++ or Go, or sixteen (12) years of experience building large
platforms by integrating open source or commercial software together with automation
scripting.
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing applications in a Linux operating
environment
• 5 years’ functional experience with containerization technologies like Docker
• 7 years’ functional experience deploying applications to container orchestration technologies
such as but not limited to Kubernetes
• An additional two (2) years of experience may be substituted for all minimum requirements
listed above with an active Certified Kubernetes Application Developer status. This may be
stacked with active CKA status
• An additional two (2) years of experience may be substituted for all minimum requirements
listed above with an active Certified Kubernetes Administrator status. This may be stacked with
active CKA status.
• An additional one (1) year of experience may be substituted for all minimum requirements
listed above with a status of an Open Source project maintainer in open industry.
Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, integrate and test new features and capabilities for cloud native service
offerings. These systems must be able to run in a hybrid cloud model using containerization,
container orchestration, and function based (such as server-less) technologies. Must be able
to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of
identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when
possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support
across all products when all other support models fail.
• Developing and designing web-based user interfaces to support search and presentation of
operational data and developing web services that provide gRPC and REST-based APIs. Must
be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of
identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when
possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support
across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to develop automation software for automatic pki certificate creation from an API and
delivery of that certificate via infrastructure offerings such but not limited to as cloud vendors,
OpenStack, or container orchestration platforms. Must be able to perform expert level trouble
shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues
through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able
tosupport as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support
models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for SQL, noSQL, in memory and s3 compatible
object store technologies (e.g. Minio) and software within container orchestration or other
similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in
this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code
pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier
of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for service mesh technologies like but not
limited to istio, linkerd, or aspen mesh within container orchestration or other similar
environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this
area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed
upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of
operational support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for pub/sub technologies such as but not limited
to Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ within container orchestration or other similar environments. Must
be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of
identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when
possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support
across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for automation technologies such as but not
limited to Ansible, Bash, and Go within container orchestration or other similar environments.
Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the

ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream
when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational
support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for metrics and monitoring technologies such as
but not limited to Prometheus, Grafana within container orchestration or other similar
environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this
area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed
upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of
operational support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for with logging and monitoring technologies
such as but not limited to Fluentd, ElasticSearch, Kibana within container orchestration or other
similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in
this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code
pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier
of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for distributed network tracing and monitoring
technologies such as but not limited to Jaeger, Open Tracing and Kiali within container
orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble
shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues
through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to
support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support
models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, populate, integrate with the greater system ecosystem,
and push software changes upstream to base products for cloud package managed systems
such as but not limited to yum repos, helm repos, binary repos within orchestration or other
similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in
this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code
pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier
of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for cloud native container security monitoring
and securing solutions like but not limited to Rook-Ceph, Gluster within orchestration or other
similar environments. Must have expert understanding of remote storage concepts such as but
not limited to persistent volume claims. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting
of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through
changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support
as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for CI/CD pipelines & Git Ops practices like but
not limited to Jenkins or GitLab within container orchestration or other similar environments.
Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the
ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream
when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational
support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for network mesh technologies like but not
limited to wiregaurd, network service mesh within or below orchestration or other similar
environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this
area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed
upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of
operational support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy to, integrate with the greater system ecosystem for
multiple cloud vendors as well as private cloud industry solutions such as but not limited to
Kubernetes, AWS, Azure. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies
in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code
pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier
of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for container orchestration native policy
enforcement technologies like but not limited to OPA within container orchestration or other
similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in
this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code
pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier
of operational support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for cloud and kubernetes native server-less

capabilities enforcement technologies like but not limited to KNative, Lambda, Azure
Functions. Excels with cloud agnostic libraries and platforms such as but not limited to the
serverless/serverless libraries, triggermesh and the cncf cloud events spec. Must be able to
perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying,
and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open
Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support across all products
when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, and understand the inner workings and push software
changes upstream to base products for in memory large scale database technologies like but
not limited to Ectd both within and external to container orchestration or other similar
environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this
area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed
upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of
operational support across all products when all other support models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, integrate with the greater system ecosystem, and push
software changes upstream to base products for container orchestration native policy
enforcement technologies like but not limited to CoreDNS within and external to container
orchestration or other similar environments. Must be able to perform expert level trouble
shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of identifying, and resolving core issues
through changes to code pushed upstream when possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to
support as the highest tier of operational support across all products when all other support
models fail.
• Ability to effectively work with, deploy, and understand the inner workings and push software
changes upstream to base products for Network Proxy technologies like but not limited to
Envoy both within and external to container orchestration or other similar environments. Must
be able to perform expert level trouble shooting of technologies in this area with the ability of
identifying, and resolving core issues through changes to code pushed upstream when
possible (i.e. Open Source). Must be able to support as the highest tier of operational support
across all products when all other support models fail.