Staff / Senior Staff Platform Software Engineer

SciTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, is a dynamic non-traditional defense contractor that delivers advanced technologies in support of U.S. National Security and Defense. For the past forty-five plus years, we have supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques to deliver world-class data exploitation capabilities supporting missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability missions.

• →Build a developer platform that makes it easy for software teams to build products correctly.
• →Design, maintain, and improve CI templates and pipelines (GitLab CI) for secure software builds and deployments
• →Orchestrate automated deployments across development, test, and production environments using Kubernetes and Helm
• →Integrate CI pipelines with tools for artifact management, testing, code quality, and security scanning
• →Build, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot critical infrastructure such as CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, and data transfer mechanisms
• →Other duties as assigned

• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a DoD security clearance

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline
• At least 2 year of professional experience with:
• Python3
• CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins)
• Git version control
• Container orchestration with tools such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Kustomize, or Helm
• Demonstrated attention to detail
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate infrastructure changes to software teams and stakeholders
• Document tools and their usage
• An understanding of engineering bottlenecks and improving the developer experience
• Detail oriented
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Candidates who have any of the following skills will be preferred

• Linux systems administration
• Strong coding abilities in languages like Python, Bash, or Go
• Good knowledge of containerization tools and orchestration platforms like Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes.
• Container management tools (e.g. Google Crane, Skopeo)
• Container security tools (e.g., Grype, Syft)
• SAST/SCA tools (e.g., Fortify, SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy, ZAP)
• AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda)
• Application networking with tools such as Istio, NGINX, or Traefik
• Monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Authentication tools (e.g., Keycloak)
• Artifact repositories (e.g., JFrog Artifactory, Nexus)
• Knowledge of Internal Development Platform tools (e.g., Backstage, Port, Score, Kratix, Humanitec)
• Additional programming experience with strongly typed languages such as C++ or Rust
• Familiarity with secure software development and vulnerability management workflows