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# Senior DevOps/Software Engineer

- **Company:** NEURAL SOLUTIONS LLC
- **Location:** Columbia, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $204,000.0 - $247,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, User Authentication, Big Data, Signals Intelligence, Extract Transform Load (ETL), DevOps, Elasticsearch, Design of User Interfaces, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, Linux System Administration, Reliability Engineering, Gitlab, Git, Kubernetes, Apache Nifi, Front End Software Development, Kibana, Software Version Control, Docker
- **Published:** May 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8918338/senior-devopssoftware-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong customer service mindset.
 * Production-grade Java and Python development experience.
 * Familiarity with site reliability engineering principles.
 * Experience with authentication and authorization platforms.
 * Knowledge of software productization using Docker/Kubernetes.
 * Comfortable with Git and GitLab for version control.
 * Basic to intermediate Linux system administration skills.

Nice to Have:

 * Familiarity with Apache NiFi.
 * Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana.
 * Understanding of Kubernetes.
 * Knowledge of map-reduce analytic environments (e.g., Hadoop).
 * Background in signals intelligence systems.
 * Experience with offensive security operations.
 * Frontend UI development skills.

Experience Required: 12 years with Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or 16 years without a degree

## Description

* Incorporate site reliability engineering principles into an existing operational platform.
 * Maintain and enhance a mission-essential business intelligence platform.
 * Elicit requirements, analyze data, and develop solutions to deliver key metrics.
 * Design analytics to combine, normalize, and enrich large datasets.
 * Create ETL workflows for converting and normalizing data.
 * Incorporate new tools or technologies into the platform.
 * Guide junior software engineers and data scientists.
 * Document processes clearly in written form.


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