Software Integration Engineer (All Levels)

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team
Locations: Maryland and Utah
Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required

Position Overview

Our client is seeking a Software Integration Engineer to support a mission-focused Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. These funded positions support critical mission operations infrastructure and customer-facing environments through automation, monitoring, resiliency engineering, and troubleshooting activities.

This role offers the opportunity to work across modern Linux environments while supporting enterprise-scale monitoring, automation, and operational tooling.

Responsibilities

• Support mission operations infrastructure tooling, including automation, alerting, monitoring, and resiliency initiatives.
• Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain customer programming use cases.
• Perform Linux system administration activities across multiple distributions.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions using Salt and Ansible.
• Create and support monitoring solutions utilizing Nagios, Thruk, Prometheus, Splunk, and Grafana.
• Troubleshoot system performance and operational issues in mission-critical environments.
• Support software integration efforts and infrastructure deployments.
• Manage and maintain code repositories and development workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to improve system reliability and efficiency.

Note: Candidates should expect to spend up to 50% of their day initially performing Linux system administration tasks to gain familiarity with the operational environment and supported systems.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph security clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship.
• Experience administering Linux operating systems, including:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • CentOS
  • Rocky Linux
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
  • Ubuntu
• Experience with one or more of the following programming/scripting languages:
  • Python
  • C
  • Bash
• Experience with Linux system administration, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced mission environment.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with any of the following technologies is highly desired:

• Thruk dashboards
• Nagios monitoring and plugin development
• Splunk dashboard integration and management
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Salt
• Ansible
• GitBucket
• Jira
• Confluence
• Slurm

Benefits

OST has been providing mission-critical support to Government agencies since 1996 and offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 3 Weeks Paid Time Off
• 11 Federal Holidays
• Medical and Dental Coverage
• Short-Term Disability (STD)
• Long-Term Disability (LTD)
• Life Insurance
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Coverage
• 401(k) with up to 4% Company Match