Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Services Backend (up to 25% profit sharing benefit)

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Services Backend (up to 25% profit sharing benefit)Job Category: EngineeringTime Type: Full timeMinimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with PolygraphEmployee Type: RegularPercentage of Travel Required: NoneType of Travel: NoneBITS, a CACI Company, offers very rewarding and unique benefits, which equates to 50% of compensation on TOP of your base salary! Thefirst part is a tax-qualified profit-sharing retirement plan, to which BITS annually contributes up to 25% of your base salary (not in excess ofapplicable IRS limits) to your retirement account. The second component consists of BITS' Individual Benefit Account (IBA), which is used forpremiums, medical reimbursements, dependent care, education and Paid Time Off (PTO) policy. Both components of the BITS benefitpackage are paid for by BITS, in addition to your base salary and potential performance bonuses. We believe in a healthy home/work balanceand both of our locations offer a wide variety of activities to balance with your work life. Learn more at http://www.caci.com/bit-systems/At CACI/BITS, we are looking for talented Software Engineers who are interested and passionate in using state of the art technologies in a truly dynamic, agile development environment to develop, enhance, and maintain innovative mission essential systems in support of high profile, real world events. We seek candidates looking for a fast-paced, start-up like environment who have a zeal for new development for modern cloud systems in an agile environment, building novel, mission essential solutions that fulfill high profile intelligence community needs.On Team Makalu, typical responsibilities include playing an integral role in defining the architecture for two highly visible, mission critical cloud-native microservice-based systems (Bodhi and ChatSurfer), while also suggesting ways to improve the overall performance of the applications. Other responsibilities could include building new microservices that get deployed as Docker containers to AWS using Kubernetes, including new REST endpoints available for system access. Our team works closely together with other on-site and remote software engineers developing back-end microservices, front-end web applications, and DevOps engineers tasked with deploying services to multiple cloud environments.What You'll Get to Do

• Day-to-day expectations include solving challenging, but rewarding technical problems, meeting program objectives within the agile development cycle, suggesting ways to improve the architecture and software baseline, and introducing new ways to meet mission needs.
• Work on new technologies, while staying customer-focused and thriving on challenges to build new microservices applications.
• Help maintain the existing architecture and code base.
• Contribute to a positive and upbeat team atmosphere.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related major, or graduation from a coding boot camp

• 7+ years of relevant experience

• A TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly is required for this position.

• Experience working with Linux or similar Operating Systems
• Experience working as a member of a development team participating in the complete product development lifecycle
• Demonstrated experience with Agile Development processes and participation in an agile development environment.
• Demonstrated Java, JavaScript programming experience in a Unix/Linux environment.
• Demonstrated experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Demonstrated experience with continuous integration and software CM processes / tools (Subversion, GIT, JIRA, Confluence).
• Experience applying industry best practices to ensure system performance, reliability, scalability and security.
• Strong troubleshooting/problem solving skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Time management and organizational skills, including the ability to work in a dynamic, real-time environment with rapidly changing priorities. Must be able to multi-task and work independently with minimum supervision to meet deadlines.
• Current Security+ and/or CISSP Certification, or ability to obtain certification within 6 months from date of hire.
• Familiar with microservice architectures
• Familiarity with build tools (e.g. gradle, maven)

• Experience using Elasticsearch and/or Postgres
• Development experience defining, developing and maintaining REST based interfaces.
• Experience with deployments, Docker and/or Kubernetes
• AWS Certification (Developer, DevOps and/or, Architect, etc.)

• We've been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
• Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
• We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
• We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation's highest priorities.
• For over 55 years, the principles of CACI's unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.