IntroductionA career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
Your Role and ResponsibilitiesThe Senior Software Developer will perform critical hands-on activities to develop, test, and deploy the system. As a developer on the team, you are responsible for working with fellow team mates to deliver and maintain a cloud-based data broker solution. Specific responsibilities include the following:
- Apply software development/scripting knowledge to perform system administration tasks
- Apply expertise with Cloudera, Cloudera Flow Manager, Grafana, and Prometheus
- Apply expertise in establishing and using Amazon Web Services, minimally EC2 and EBS
- Administer user credentials and access controls using LDAP services
- Research, design, and develop system enhancements
- Develop and maintain current software, perform configuration management, and perform backup management
- Maintain development, test, and production environments
- Work as a team member to identify and prioritize tasking using project tools
- Develop technical documentation to include software design documentation, version documentation, and architecture views
- Create backup and recovery procedures, participate in routine testing of procedures, and be available to assist in the event of an actual contingency event
- Perform system/software troubleshooting and root cause analysis Assist help desk with engineering-related user tickets
- Apply expertise with common protocols such as PKI, TLS, SSH, HTTPS, and TCP
- Perform necessary security hardening in accordance with the Risk Management Framework on various classified and unclassified domains
- Develop and apply cost savings practices using cloud services (e.g., FedRAMP GovCloud, C2S)
- Support agile processes including scrums, sprint planning, sprint demonstrations, and retrospectives
Required Technical and Professional Expertise- Expertise in developing, hardening, and deploying software in cloud-based architectures. Hands-on experience with GovCloud Amazon Web Services and classified Cloud Computing Services (C2S). Experience with Amazon Web Services, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, and Cloudera tools
- Familiarity with Risk Management Framework (RMF) security controls as they apply to a cloud-based system residing on Top Secret, Secret, and Unclassified domains
- Experience configuring code to integrate with commercial products and enterprise services.
- DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (e.g. Security+) or ability to obtain certification within first 90 days.
- Clearance: Active TS/SCI w/ ability to obtain CI Poly
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise- Prior experience performing as a validated Privileged User
- Experience on a large software program providing data broker, data lake, or data analysis capabilities
- Familiarity with DoD and IC data missions, with developing and deploying capabilities using containers and with using CI/CD tools that automate the DevSecOps process
- Experience with performing testing to include regression testing, test script creation, and automated testing
- Experience troubleshooting code and interface dependencies and performing code quality assurance activities