Description

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Captivation Software is looking for a senior level software engineer who will be in a extremely customer facing role leading multi faceted mission critical system development, deployment and evolution. The successful candidate will be focusing on the development, deployment, and administration of complex systems using C++ or Python, Kubernetes, and GPU technologies. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of our satellite communication systems, from development to deployment, and will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure software meets user requirements.

 

Requirements

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Security Clearance:

• Must currently hold a Top Secret/SCI U.S. Government security clearance with a favorable Polygraph, therefore all candidates must be a U.S. citizen

Minimum Qualifications:

• Twenty (20) years of experience as a SWE is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science from an accredited college or university is required

Desired Skills:

• Kubernetes cluster design, deployment, and lifecycle management
  • Specifically Rancher, RKE2 implementation
  • Controle plane component configuration and troubleshooting
  • Worker node management, configuration, and lifecycle automation
  • Workload management (scheduling, affinity, resources, scaling)
  • High availability cluster configuration
  • Cluster monitoring
  • Cluster networking
  • Cluster storage (storage classes, PVC, PC) and integration with external storage systems
  • Kubernetes security concepts and implementation (RBAC, service accounts, secrets, certificate management, policy engines)
  • Helm Familiarity
  • CKA certification is a plus
• Kubernetes application development/deployment principles
  • CNCF projects/tools
  • DevOps principles
  • GitOps/Builds/Pipelines
• Networking experience (Switching, routing, VLANs)
• Advanced Linux Experience (RHEL/Rocky/EL9)
  • Operating system configuration and troubleshooting
  • Service management
  • Hardening
  • PXE boot and automated OS deployment
• Ansible experience
  • Playbook design
  • Role development
  • Ansible collection creation and management
• Development and Scripting
  • Python familiarity
  • Bash scripting experience
  • Go
  • YAML and JSON manipulation
  • Git workflows
• Knowledge/experience with software unit testing
• Cross-functional team collaboration
• Stakeholder communication and requirements gathering
• Presenting technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• RF data processing familiarity
• RF application development familiarity
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This position is open for direct hires only. We will not consider candidates from third party staffing/recruiting firms.