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Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Metron
Location
Reston, VA
Posted
24 days ago
Department
Advanced Mathematics Applications
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, applied math, or related field
  • At least 3 years of industry experience
  • Active TS/SCI Security Clearance
  • Experience in Helm, Kubernetes, and Docker
  • Proven experience and understanding of software deployment lifecycles on both cloud platforms and local on-premises hardware
  • Software Development experience in Java, Rust or Typescript/React
Nice to have
  • Experience using ADO, Gitlab, ArgoCD or similar CI/CD tools
  • Experience with Keycloak or similar authentication systems
  • Experience with logging tools such as Grafana, Loki, and Alloy
  • Incident Response
  • Experience facilitating integrations with other systems
What the job really is

The Software Engineer, Infrastructure role at Metron involves building, deploying, and operating systems that support mission-focused software in production. The engineer will improve software deployment processes, ensure system reliability, and handle incident responses while working with containerized deployments and integrations with external systems.

Benefits
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Accompanying FSA and HSA options
  • Additional Voluntary Benefits
  • Paid Time Off
  • 9 Observed Holidays and 2 Floating Holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave
Things to weigh
  • Position requires working from the Reston, VA office 5 days a week.
  • Active TS/SCI Security Clearance is mandatory, which may limit candidate pool.
  • Role involves incident response, which may require on-call duties.
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