Software Integration Engineer (All Levels)

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team
Locations: Maryland and Utah
Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required

Position Overview

Our client is seeking a Software Integration Engineer to support a mission-focused Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. These funded positions support critical mission operations infrastructure and customer-facing environments through automation, monitoring, resiliency engineering, and troubleshooting activities.

This role offers the opportunity to work across modern Linux environments while supporting enterprise-scale monitoring, automation, and operational tooling.

Responsibilities

• Support mission operations infrastructure tooling, including automation, alerting, monitoring, and resiliency initiatives.


• Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain customer programming use cases.


• Perform Linux system administration activities across multiple distributions.


• Develop and maintain automation solutions using Salt and Ansible.


• Create and support monitoring solutions utilizing Nagios, Thruk, Prometheus, Splunk, and Grafana.


• Troubleshoot system performance and operational issues in mission-critical environments.


• Support software integration efforts and infrastructure deployments.


• Manage and maintain code repositories and development workflows.


• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to improve system reliability and efficiency.

Note: Candidates should expect to spend up to 50% of their day initially performing Linux system administration tasks to gain familiarity with the operational environment and supported systems.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph security clearance.


• U.S. Citizenship.


• Experience administering Linux operating systems, including:
  
  
  
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  
  
  • CentOS
  
  
  • Rocky Linux
  
  
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
  
  
  • Ubuntu
  
  
  
  


• Experience with one or more of the following programming/scripting languages:
  
  
  
  • Python
  
  
  • C
  
  
  • Bash
  
  
  
  


• Experience with Linux system administration, troubleshooting, and operational support.


• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced mission environment.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with any of the following technologies is highly desired:

• Thruk dashboards


• Nagios monitoring and plugin development


• Splunk dashboard integration and management


• Prometheus


• Grafana


• Salt


• Ansible


• GitBucket


• Jira


• Confluence


• Slurm

Benefits

OST has been providing mission-critical support to Government agencies since 1996 and offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 3 Weeks Paid Time Off


• 11 Federal Holidays


• Medical and Dental Coverage


• Short-Term Disability (STD)


• Long-Term Disability (LTD)


• Life Insurance


• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Coverage


• 401(k) with up to 4% Company Match