What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer position at Simple Technology Solutions?
Simple Technology Solutions is looking for an Software Engineer to add to our team.
Quick Position Overview:
- US Citizenship is required
- Bachelor's Degree is required
- Minimum of 12 years' position related experience is required
- Desired Certification: AWS Solutions Architect and/or Developer
The Role:
STS is looking for a software engineer to support NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Evolution and Development 3 (EED-3) contract. The team provides Earth scientists and others access to data from NASA’s Earth Science missions. As a member of the EED-3 team, the software engineer will build innovative tools allowing scientists and students alike to discover, transform, update, and improve the quality of Earth Science data in the pursuit of solving a wide range of environmental and socio-economic issues.
The Software Engineer at STS will:
- Work in a fast-paced Agile development environment performing operations, design, and development for the NASA Earthdata Cloud. Earthdata Cloud is a core capability in NASA’s Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS), which provides end-to-end capabilities for managing NASA’s Earth science data from various sources – satellites, aircraft, field measurements, and other programs.
- Will ensure adherence to operational agreements and polices (including response times), compliance to program and NASA standards and requirements (including Section 508 compliance), leveraging of industry best practices for automation and scalability of assets, and implementation of issue detection and alerts.
Education and Experience:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Business Administration Science, Mathematics, or Engineering
- US Citizenship
- 12 years of integration, systems analysis, or programming experience
- 5-7 years of programming / scripting experience in C , BASH, Python, Java and Java script particularly within an Agile development environment.
- Experience in supporting infrastructures and operations using DevOps automation tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform. Focus on high availability of hardware, data replication, and provide real-time recovery in failure situations.
- Familiar with core suite of AWS services related to DevOps, with depth in those that are heavily used when providing DevOps automation solutions, including the Management and Deployment services such as Terraform and IAM
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Solid work experience in preparing IT technical documents.
- A strong desire to automate processes, build software tools, and create infrastructure-as-code solutions in a DevOps environment.
Desired
- Experience with the UNIX OS
- Experience with full life cycle Software design and development experience on large/complex n-tier client/server applications.
Required Certifications
- None
Preferred Certifications
- AWS Solutions Architect and /or Developer.
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