Operational Systems Engineer

Senior Operational Systems Engineer

Hoplite Solutions is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Operational Systems Engineer to join our dynamic and expanding team in Chantilly, VA.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design, development, and testing of applications using modern standards
• Collaborate on System Design and Architecture
• Translate user requirements into technical requirements
• Share O&M responsibilities with teammates
• Investigate and seek new and innovative ways to improve application development
• Provide on call support to mission systems as needed

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance, with polygraph
• Background in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Cyber Forensics, Engineering, or other related discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training and work/military experience
• 7+ years experience working in software engineering, application development and/or web application development and deployment
• 7+ years experience with Object Oriented Programming such as Python or Ruby
• 7+ years experience in full stack development (Javascript, VueJS, NodeJS, Angular, HTML, CSS, etc)
• Strong foundation in Linux
• Experience with AWS Elastic Cloud 2, AWS Lambdas, SQS, Apache HTTPD
• Experience with Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
• Experience with source code management tool such as GitHub, GitLab, Git source code version control software
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology and experience working in an Agile team environment
• Familiarity with working with data in varying encodings and character sets
• Familiarity with Restful web services
• Strong customer service skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Rails, Ruby, Rake in varying versions
• Behavior and Test-Driven Development using Cucumber, RSpec, and supporting libraries
• Experience with Bootstrap, Material UI or Tailwind
• Experience with Apache Solr
• Experience with software design patterns and principles
• Experience with software configuration management
• SQL/DML/DDL
• Automation – CI/CD (Jenkins)

Hoplite Solutions offers a highly competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including paid holidays and vacation, fully covered healthcare, short- and long-term disability, up to 7% 401(k) matching, referral bonuses, and tuition reimbursement.