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Backend Platform Engineer

Charlottesville, Virginia

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General Atomics pioneers technologies with the potential to change the world. Behind a talented global team of engineers, GA delivers safe, sustainable, and economical solutions to meet growing global demands. Our Engineers have an opportunity to work on first of a kind product lines within an incredible, dynamic environment.

Engineering positions typically require a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience. Candidates from mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineering backgrounds must know the fundamentals of engineering system developments, requirements, testing, and integration before getting to the final stages of customer interface and project management.

  • Schedule: Full-Time Salary

  • Job Level: Mid-Level (3-7 years)

  • Travel: 0 - 25

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Job ID 49171BR Company GA CCRi Experience Level Mid-Level (3-7 years) Job Title Backend Platform Engineer City Charlottesville State Virginia Workstyle Onsite Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time Salary Salary Range $98,100 - $171,398

Job Summary General Atomics Integrated Intelligence, Inc. (GA-i3), an affiliate of General Atomics, develops best-in-class global situational awareness and battle orchestration capabilities that process petabytes of data from diverse sources in near real time. Our systems apply state-of-the-art algorithms and machine learning techniques to extract features, fuse data and form a rich live view of objects across land, sea and sky. We empower decision makers to solve meaningful challenges through innovative data science and scalable software engineering.

GA-i3 is searching for a software engineer on our platform team. As a backend platform engineer you will be responsible for designing and implementing solutions using infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible and Helm to deliver and support maintenance of Kubernetes based deployments in both the cloud and at the edge. You'll also be responsible for architecting and implementing CI driven workflows to support integration and testing for production workloads.

DUTIES AND RESONSIBILITIES:
  • Under general supervision with limited review, this position independently determines approaches/solutions for the design, development and/or modification of specific programs or projects for enterprise-wide end-user, system level, and data management software applications.
  • Involved in planning of application development and deployment as well as responsible for meeting software compliance standards on specific programs or projects.
  • Evaluates integration of software applications with the overall computing environment; responsible for documentation, testing, maintenance, and software updates.
  • Communicates with domain experts, outside customers, users, and management throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Determine user requirements and specifications and plan for software development within the broader organizational scope. Software development includes end-user, system level, and data management applications,
  • Formulate detailed plans for the implementation of software solutions on specific programs or projects. In addition to program design this includes determining language, platform, and resource requirements.
  • Implementation of design including coding, testing, and documentation.
  • Deployment of applications across the enterprise including cross- platform compliance and insuring availability of necessary resources.
  • Code maintenance including debugging and updating to keep pace with the evolving environment.
  • Assist in planning for future applications based on new developments in computer technology.
  • Communicate with the software developer group, with users, and with management as well as with the wider community through the publishing and presentation of technical papers.
We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.
Job Qualifications:
  • Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in computer science, information systems or a related discipline and progressive software development experience as follows; four or more years of experience with a bachelors degree or two or more years of experience with a masters degree. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
  • Must have a complete understanding of software development concepts, principles, and theory and demonstrate complete understanding and application of programming and analysis concepts.
  • Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment.
  • Ability to organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases and, determine the appropriate approach at the task level or, with assistance, at the project level and to provide solutions to a range of complex problems.
  • Must have strong communication, computer, documentation, presentation, and interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team; and, lead a team of less experienced professional employees on semi-routine tasks.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
  • 2 or more years working with Kubernetes
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such a Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Helm
  • Experience with CI/CD systems and workflows (GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
  • Experience working in AWS environments
  • Experience working in Linux environments

Salary:$98,100 - $171,398
Travel Percentage Required 0 - 25 Relocation Assistance Provided Provided US Citizenship Required? Yes Clearance Required? Desired Clearance Level Top Secret (current SCI access with CI Poly)
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Benefits

  • Healthcare

  • Pension, 401(k)/Retirement Plans

  • Competitive Pay

  • Multiple product lines means a variety of work

  • Paid Time Off

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