SSAI is hiring Cloud Software Engineers to join a growing team of cloud experts who help our National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other public sector customers use the latest cloud capabilities and technologies to support meaningful projects in Earth and environmental science research, engineering, and applications for societal benefit.
The current opportunity and initial focus area is providing cloud migration support to NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAAC), located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Support areas will cover a broad array of Amazon Web Services (AWS) capabilities with a focus on developing, integrating, and testing new solutions as the DAAC continues to migrate its extensive data holdings and services into NASA’s Earthdata Cloud.
Successful candidates will have strong leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science and at least ten years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Demonstrated experience leading agile software development teams and working with product owners
- Experience managing projects using Jira and Confluence and Scrum or Kanban methodologies
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a large team
- Knowledge in managing and using containers and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience with DevOps CI/CD pipeline tools (Git , Bamboo) GitLab, Github, and/or BitBucket
- Three years of experience with secure software development practices and concepts in Agile environment
- Two years of demonstrated experience designing, developing, and debugging in cloud environments (AWS)
- Two years experience with Cloud security including AWS IAM (policies, roles, etc) and VPC concepts (security groups, subnets, etc)
- Two years experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience with Node.js/Javascript, Java, Python, Perl, and/or Bash
- Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, Elastic Search, AWS DynamoDB etc.)
- Experience with Representational State Transfer (REST) services and tools (curl, postman, etc)
- US Citizenship required.
Desired Qualifications:
- Understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), including Agile Release Trains and PI Planning
- Experience with NASA Earthdata projects and/or Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs)
- AWS certification (Associate, Professional, and/or Specialty)
- CSM, CSPO, SAFe agile certifications or equivalent
- Experience with distributed, loosely-coupled and scalable architectures including serverless architecture and frameworks
- Demonstrated knowledge of cloud native patterns and micro-service architecture
- Experience troubleshooting serverless and container-oriented AWS deployments (CloudWatch)
- Experience with the following AWS components: Lambda, EC2, Step Functions, DynamoDB, RDS, S3 (Standard-IA and Glacier), SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Cloudwatch, API Gateway, Console, CLI
- Significant experience working in Linux environments (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS)
EOE, including disability/vets
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
