Software Development / Integration Engineer, Northern Virginia

Position for an energetic quick learning, self-starting engineer who is highly adaptable to changes and is a team player. This job entails daily coding of the networking tools to model unique networking architectures with a focus on analytics that provide metrics on network performance.

Responsibilities:

* The Software Development/Integration Engineer will design, analyze and integrate existing subsystems, leveraging Python to orchestrate the latest network technology and tools within a specific tool suite.

Desired Qualifications:

* The candidate will have experience in AGILE Software development for Linux environments pursuing Network modeling/simulation for wired and wireless network applications. Experience will include leveraging python to write glue code between subsystems.

* Network Modeling/Simulation, Network Modeling Tools expertise. Solid foundation in industry/standard network technologies, routers, switches, spanning tree, routing protocols.

* Familiarity with MANETs and related protocols is a plus (ex: IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, PPP, Ethernet).

* Familiarity with Software Defined Network architecture and service - based implementations

* Familiarity with Traffic Engineering to include aspects such as prioritization, QOS, Class of Services to include L2 radio/router

* Familiarity with Network Security Abstraction exampled by end - to - end crypto solutions such as HAIPE

* Familiarity with software packaging. Capable of installing and configuring Linux and IOS as well as minor system/network administrative functions

Requirements:

* Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Network Engineering or equivalent experience

* 5+ years of experience in the software development field/industry

* Resourceful, quick learner and the ability to be flexible to changing and dynamic requirements

* Coding: Python IDEs, VMs, Docker Container Creation, Dockerized subsystems, Docker-Compose, Custom Interface creation, gRPC, REST. Familiar with AGILE environment including Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence, and JENKINS workflows. Familiar with build manifests and automated testing with Pytest. Data model creation, large data processing, task & queue automation, sub-classing, robust regex creation, build chain tracking, Google Doc strings, Sphinx and self-documentation.

* Familiar with Linux OS CENTOS 7, Linux system admin, proc/net/dev, etc/sysconfig, htop, vcmd, linux scripting & OSquery. Demonstrated understanding of Atlassian tools such as Confluence, git, Jira, Jenkins, nexus3. Understanding of git and software development version control to include code reviews, PRs, and merging.

* Familiarity with Python coding standards, configuration management, and Linux applications.

Security Requirements: Active TOP SECRET/SCI clearance