Backend Software Engineer

TEKSYSTEMS INC.

Scott Air Force Base, IL, United States

5 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Internship / Graduate position

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Experienced

Experience required

2 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.clearancejobs.com

Tech stack

HTML Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Application Integration Architecture Big Data Data Governance Data Integration Extract Transform Load (ETL)

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Distributed Data Store Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Elasticsearch Middleware Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Network Security Message Broker Meta-Data Management Network Architecture OpenShift Logstash Software Engineering Software Systems SQL Databases Enterprise Data Management Data Logging Backend Git Kubernetes Atlassian Tools Apache Kafka Bitbucket Data Management Functional Programming Cloudwatch Kibana Stream Processing Stream Analytics Software Version Control Confluent

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a relevant technical discipline and 2+ year of related experience obtained through any combination of coursework and internships.
Strong hands-on knowledge of Confluent Kafka, including schema management, stream processing, and Kafka Connect.
Experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for logging, monitoring, and observability.
Prior experience with implementing enterprise data lakes, ETL pipelines, and distributed data architectures.
Proficient in AWS services relevant to data platforms (e.g., EC2, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch).
Experience deploying and managing workloads in OpenShift or Kubernetes-based environments.
Familiarity with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration best practices.
Effectively managing remotely with a geographically dispersed team.
Working knowledge of DISA STIGs, RMF, and other DoD compliance frameworks.
Strong background in data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
Develop DoD requirements, traceability, and detailed plans/schedules.
Development of software systems engineering documents and interface documents (IDDs/ICDs)
Strong understanding of DoD network infrastructure, security requirements, and data exchange protocols.
Experience in application integration design and strong communication skills for collaboration with virtual teams.
Proficiency in data integration technologies, APIs, message brokers, and middleware solutions.
Experience with network security, encryption, and access controls in classified and unclassified environments.
Prior experience in big data analytics or cybersecurity solutions within a DISN environment
Background in observability platforms, incident response, or real-time analytics.
Software development experience with Python, Java and SQL. Working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript.
Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.
Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.
Ability to obtain interim Secret DoD Security clearance prior to start date.
Ability to obtain Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 60 days of start date.
Experience in architecture, design, develop, and delivery of data driven operations capabilities, within a DoD environment.
Experience using project management tools such as Jira and Confluence to document requirements, acceptance criteria and test cases.
Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with and convey focused messages to stakeholders, customers, domain experts, program managers and teammates.