Senior Principal Software Engineer

Company Overview

CCG is a technology company focused on equipping customers with the capabilities and support to conduct intelligent and successful cyber operations. We do this by finding the most talented engineers and operators in the country, give them some of the most challenging problems facing the US government, and help them unleash their creativity and problem-solving skills. Excellence is our standard and mission success is our metric.

Role

This position is for a software engineer who is comfortable living at the intersection of how computer and software systems are intended to operate and how they actually operate. Surrounded by experts in a wide range of specialties, the engineer must be able to effectively operate autonomously, be it through independent investigation of issues, through communicating and collaborating with team members, recommending alternative courses of action, or announcing expected system maintenance actions and their impacts.

An ideal candidate will be both curious about solving problems and excited to disseminate knowledge gained from solving those problems. The candidate will need to be comfortable working from a shell environment in a virtual machine with connectivity to other network resources. A solid understanding of DNS, certificates, and Linux administration will provide a good basis for this work, as will containerized environments. An intermediate understanding of Kubernetes Clusters and Resources will also be a boon for this work.

Responsibilities

• Consult and collaborate with team members to develop courses of action for issues without straightforward solutions
• Apply, maintain, and encourage development, code, and testing standards
• Identify and troubleshoot deployed off-the-shelf (and some custom) software services
• Investigate and address reported user issues
• Develop approaches for maintaining and patching running services
• Maintain automated backups of service data
• Monitor services for anomalies (via dashboards and notifications)
• Facilitate version upgrades of services
• Initiate backup/restore of service data
• Database migrations
• Work closely with service development teams
• Understand and assist with deployments of new services
• Become familiarized with operations of new services
• Identify (and/or develop) improvements to maintenance automation
• Communicate clearly with developers and users to plan upgrades and maintenance
• Document upgrade processes
• Document detailed logs of the specific operations performed during maintenance events
• Develop and maintain schedule for security scanning and updates of applications
• Participate in the planning and proposal process for improvements to services
• Participate in reviews to vet incoming code and deployment changes

Required Qualifications

• Current US TS/SCI security clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Degree requirement can be met with four years of hands-on experience in a DevOps, DevSecOps, software engineer or similar full time position
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to develop software based capabilities - this is typically achieved after a minimum of 5 years of full time industry experience and a bachelor’s degree 
• Experience providing daily guidance and oversight to other engineers
• Proficient in containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Podman)
• Proficient with container orchestration using Kubernetes
• Understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Terraform preferred)
• Comfortable and proficient in Linux-based development environments
• Working knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
• Ability to collaborate as a team but execute independently
• Comfortable in a high-trust, adaptable, team environment
• General understanding of Cloud Infrastructure (Azure preferred)
• General understanding of networking, DNS, proxies, and certificates
• Familiarity with GitLab and GitLab Runners
• Proficiency with Python

Preferred Qualifications

• More than 5 years of industry experience in a DevSecOps or DevOps role
• Experience deploying, updating, and maintaining production deployments of Kubernetes Clusters and Cluster-based applications
• Experience with building container images, performing security scans, and remediating images
• Experience communicating with customers and end-users

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.