Software Engineer

Absolute Business Solutions Corp (ABSC) is not just another tech company. We’re a community of innovators, engineers, analysts and business professionals working together with our customers to tackle the most complex challenges. For more than 20 years we’ve supported critical Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), Federal Civilian missions and global, multi-national corporations. We specialize in supporting our clients in the Intelligence, Technology, Defense, AI/ML, and Data Science fields. As we continue to grow at a rapid pace, we need some amazing new professionals to join our team.

ABSC has an exciting opening for you, as our next Software Engineer, to play a critical role advancing the state of the art in mission-focused big data analytics and predictive analytics for DIA-National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) under our 10-year Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX) Technology Platform (DTP) contract. You will work closely with Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and Operations Engineering/Manager on a broad scope of activities extending across the development of systems to include middle-tier and backend engineering tasks. Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. The percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

Security clearance required for this role: TS/SCI (eligible) with ability/willingness to obtain a CI polygraph.

Responsibilities:

• Develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems ( e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements
• Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components
• Designs, implements, and integrates software applications or performs software engineering tasks
• Utilizes software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development, integration, and production environment
• Participate in test, staging and production deployment.
• Assist in the maintenance of services and procedures for a big data pipeline which includes Kafka, Elasticsearch, and several in-house written python/java micro services running on Kubernetes
• Develop and integrate Docker containers to be deployed to Kubernetes
• Monitor automated system integration tests to identify failed modules and components
• Manage individual project priorities, deliverables, and deadlines
• Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members in the goal of providing quality service and product to our customers

Requirements:

• Requires Bachelor’s Degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. (Additional years of experience in lieu of degree are acceptable)
• Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph
• Experience with containerization, especially with Docker
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices, especially Gitlab or Jenkins
• At least 8 years of experience with the following:
  • Python
  • API development
• Experience in Extraction, Transformation, and Load (ETL)
• Experience enterprise search capabilities (such as Elasticsearch) to solve Big Data challenges
• Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL server
• Experience with Agile practices
• Hands-on development and/or scripting experience, especially Python and Bash in Linux environment
• Experience with AWS cloud-based architecture, services (Lambda, etc.), and software development
• Experience with Artifactory
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Enthusiastic with the ability to work well in a team and a self-starter who can work on their own

Desired Skills:

• Active Security+ certification
• Active CE certification
• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification by the Government
• GraphQL Service
• Apache NiFi
• Experience with systems at scale
• Kafka or other message passin