Automation Engineer

Overview

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking an Automation Engineer to support the IT program at a major national laboratory. The Systems Design and Architecture Department designs, evaluates, and develops sophisticated, software architectures for processing and exploitation of remote sensing information. We invent, analyze and implement the frameworks, infrastructures and algorithms that support real-time extraction and classification of static and dynamic events from a variety of very complicated data streams from pathfinder remote sensing assets. We process terabytes of near real time data daily, extracting information and providing it to national decision makers. You will employ systems-level thinking to plan, develop, and execute the implementation of solutions in the areas of cloud computing, security architecture, software architecture and network engineering. We design, develop, and deploy large, networked computing systems that push the state-of-the-art in data processing throughput and real-time response.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities will include research and development of a state-of-the-art Linux build, integration, and test environment that enables the development of sophisticated, real-time decision support systems that support remote sensing, data acquisition, and analysis applications for National Security missions.

Responsibilities Include:

• Configuration management, testing and user support of complex software engineering infrastructures that are utilized by multiple code development teams
• Working collectively with architects, developers, technical leads, customers, tactical partners, and end users to collect requirements, design solutions, and deliver extensible software applications
• Providing to a deeply rewarding mission through engagement with diverse computer science specialists and specialists in areas like data fusion, signal and image processing, analytics, cloud computing, architectures, and data management and visualization

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required per contact to obatin and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy Q clearance.
• Developing and modifying python scripts in a Linux environment.
• Experience with Apache Zookeeper, Kubernetes, or other centralized services for managing systems applications.
• Development and modification of XML to support existing infrastructure for a large software environment.
• Experience maintaining existing Perl and Bash scripts with an end goal of replacing them with a consistent Python code base.

Desired:

• Active DOE Q and SCI security clearances
• Experience in Git source code management
• Experience in multi-language build system (C , Java, Python)
• Experience in Python and Bash scripting languages
• Experience working with Open-Source communities
• Knowledge of build automation tools (CMake, Autotools, Maven, Gradle, and Jenkins)
• Familiar with DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Current Security or higher certification
• Experience researching, evaluating, and recommending technologies to improve current systems
• Consistent record working on a multifaceted, fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team

About Us: 

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2023.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.