Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking a Software Developer to add to our Platform Mission Applications Team. The Platform Mission Applications team members are responsible for integrating, deploying and ensuring Continuous Delivery (CD) of Mission Partner Mission Applications across all the fabrics utilizing tools such as Istio, Kiali, K9s, Grafana, Keycloak, Gitlab, Kustomize, Helm and ArgoCD. We develop deployment and integration manifests used to create required kubernetes objects, resources, policies, and components in order to deploy Mission Partners applications into our ecosystem.
What You'll Do
The Platform Mission Applications team members are responsible for integrating, deploying and ensuring Continuous Delivery (CD) of Mission Partner Mission Applications across all the fabrics utilizing tools such as Istio, Kiali, K9s, Grafana, Keycloak, Gitlab, Kustomize, Helm and ArgoCD. We develop deployment and integration manifests used to create required kubernetes objects, resources, policies, and components in order to deploy Mission Partners applications into our ecosystem.
Platform Mission Apps Development & Engineering (MADE): This team focusses on automation development and sustainment (i.e. GitLab Mission Partner self service deployment pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code). MADE also develops and maintains the Mission Apps Padawan site. Platform Mission Apps Customer Empowerment (MACE): This team focuses on Mission Partner onboarding (e.g. mission manifest project development/integration, mission-bootstrap integration), configuration management sustainment, and catalog sustainment.
Platform Mission Apps Tier 3 (MAT3, read "MATE"): This team focuses on Mission Partner Tier 3 support to include SOP/troubleshooting guide sustainment and sustaining Mission Applications infrastructure (e.g. mTLS gateways, third party tools, and Istio/Kyverno configurations and policies).
Key Technologies:
- Linux
- Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ...)
- AWS Services
- GitLab
- Data Types: Structured and Unstructured, Parquet, JSON, XML, etc.
- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
- Kustomize and Helm
Required Qualifications:
- IAT or IAM Level II DoD 8570 Certification
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Ability to access secure facilities with SIPR & JWICS
- Experience with microservice orchestration, with a heavy emphasis on Kubernetes
- Experience with Kustomize and Helm
- Experience with Linux
- Experience with GitOps and CI/CD, with a heavy emphasis on Gitlab
- 5+ years of experience in application deployment and release management.
- 3+ years of experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, ArgoCD).
- Experience with infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash).
- Strong understanding of application deployment strategies (blue/green, canary).
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with advanced application and network troubleshooting, database administration, and PKI management
- Experience with cloud providers, with an emphasis on AWS services.
- Experience with Agile Methodologies.
- Experience with various forms of automation, including simple batch scripting, pipeline automation, Kubernetes operators, and infrastructure-as-code (including terraform and ansible)
- Experience with cloud-native application architectures.
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
- Experience with security scanning and vulnerability management tools.
- Experience with platform engineering concepts.
Skills Required
- Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
- 10+ years of relevant experience (or Bachelor's degree substituted for 5 years)
- Current certification: Security+ or CISSP or CCNA or CCNP
- Experience building Windows client systems
- Experience with Azure resources and deployments
- Ability to create and execute documented detailed technical processes
- Strong Windows OS problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience with Windows virtualization (Azure Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon, Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, or Microsoft RDS)
- Experience with automated build processes
- Experience with Windows Zero Touch Installation (ZTI)
- Experience with STIG Windows security controls and NIST 800-53
- Experience creating, executing, and troubleshooting complex PowerShell scripts
- Experience managing Active Directory domain user and computer objects
- Experience with Microsoft Configuration Manager
- Azure role-based certifications (Azure DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, Administrator, or Security Engineer)
- Experience with ADCS, ADFS, AD-integrated PKI, and SSO implementations
- Experience with endpoint policy via Group Policy and Intune
- Experience with Terraform deployments
- Experience with Windows smartcard authentication
What We Do
FTSG was founded with the idea of building a company in which IT professionals have the 'Freedom' to be creative and innovative. Our technical teams focus on using the right technology to create flexible, long-lasting solutions for our clients. Looking for a position in the technology industry? FTSG is a government contractor in the D.C./Baltimore area recruiting IT professionals for various positions! Visit our website to learn more.
