What You Will Do
As a Senior Software Developer, you will lead the continued development and enhancement of a Kubernetes-native orchestration platform designed to deploy and manage workloads within its cluster. This role centers on integrating containerized microservices, a modern web-based UI/UX, and event-driven cloud-native components. You will work across teams to ensure technical excellence, operational efficiency, and code maintainability. Your expertise will help shape infrastructure automation and application delivery within secure, high-performance environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Take technical ownership of a Kubernetes-native orchestration application.
- Design and develop scalable backend services using Go (Golang).
- Build intuitive and responsive front-end interfaces using TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Manage containerized services and orchestrate deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD).
- Implement and support event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar tools.
- Integrate SQL databases within cloud-native environments.
- Collaborate across teams to ensure systems are reliable, secure, and well-documented.
- Contribute to infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, or cloud-init.
- Adhere to internal development standards, Agile workflows, and CI/CD best practices.
- Maintain and improve technical documentation to support system sustainability and team enablement.
- 20+ years of software development experience, with emphasis on backend systems, cloud-native architecture, and hardware/software integration
- Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) and backend development.
- Solid experience with Kubernetes, Helm, container orchestration (e.g., RKE2, Rancher), and GitOps tools.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Containers as a Service (CaaS), and cloud provisioning.
- Familiarity with message brokers (e.g., Kafka) and event-driven systems.
- Proficient in front-end development with TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Understanding of RESTful APIs, microservice design, and system integration.
- Skilled in debugging, troubleshooting, and optimizing complex distributed systems.
- Experience collaborating across DevSecOps, infrastructure, and operations teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Bamboo, Fisheye).
- Familiarity with Agile, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based workflows.
- Strong background in Linux/UNIX system administration.
- Knowledge of SIGINT systems and mission-related dataflows.
- Experience with production use of tools like NiFi, MetalLB, MinIO, and Kafka.
- Experience with Rancher Suite: Harvester, Longhorn, KubeVirt.
- Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
- Prior hands-on work with cloud platforms such as AWS (EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS).
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited institution. Four (4) years of additional software engineering experience may be substituted for a degree.
Clearance Requirement:
- Must possess an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance to be considered for this role.
Independent Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer EOE, M/F/D/V.
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What We Do
Independent Software is a professional services company providing Information Technology products and services to mission-oriented Federal Civilian Agencies and DoD. The company has focused on support to the Intelligence Community (IC) in Maryland, Florida, and North Carolina, as well as select commercial client markets outside of the IC.
We are driven to perform for our clients, protect our professional staff, and improve shareholder value. Working with new and evolving technologies supporting Software Development, Cyber Security, and System Engineering is part of our daily life. Employee and client satisfaction are key metrics for our corporate management team. Maintaining positive relationships with all our industry partners, large and small has delivered impressive business results. Our Mission and Vision statements speak to these values.
Mission Statement
We provide our clients the peace of mind that their business is operating in a secure environment. We do this by delivering high-quality, innovative cyber security and data analysis services and solutions.
Vision Statement
Independent Software will be a recognized leader in cyber security and data analysis solutions by delivering outstanding service and superior outcomes for our clients.
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