Principal Software Integration Engineer

SAIC is seeking an experienced Principal Software Integration Engineer to join our Technical Engineering and Design Department in support of our United States Air Force customer. The Integration engineer will perform system monitoring and remediation of issues to ensure uptime requirements are met for the critical systems.  The candidate will provide technical support to improve Multi-Domain Command and Control (MDC2) capabilities through the development and continuous improvement of the JFN and JMIE systems. This position is onsite at Camp Smith in Hawaii.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the maximum availability, stability and health of required program resources below to support operations, experimentation, development and testing.


• JFN:  MLS operational architecture including nodes, hub, network, software baseline and CI/CD apparatus (e.g. IL-5 up to IL-7 Cloud.


• Develop and maintain automated reporting mechanism using commercial or customer dashboards for reporting overall system health and status.


• Provide software sustainment leveraging software configuration management controls and processes.


• Establish and improve existing engineering processes and tools to provide system status by leveraging Platform/Applications/Data monitoring tools.


• Contribute to the design and development of automating the daily verification and validation of key functional capabilities.


• Support the automation of configuration management and the visibility into the status of CM across various environments.


• Implement and promote systems engineering principles to ensure program success.


• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability of the system.


• Prepare detailed reports and presentations on findings and share insights with stakeholders.


• Stay updated with the latest trends, technologies, and advancements in automated testing, distributed databases, software defined networking, container orchestration, and DevSecOps.

TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.

• Experience in automation tools and techniques, including configuration management and system validation.
• Experience with system monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk.)
• Experience with Virtualization: VMware, vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux KVM.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices such as continuous integration and development tools (e.g.  Jenkins, GitLab Runners.)
• Experience with Kubernetes distros (RKE2, EKS, K8s, etc.)
• Experience with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).
• Knowledge of application integration testing and automated testing frameworks.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with application providers.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities, with experience in reporting project status to leadership.
• Familiarity with modern IT frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Agile, ITIL).
• Understanding of business and technical alignment to achieve organizational goals.
• U.S. Citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance.
• IAT Level II certification.