POSITION: LEAD ENGINEER Cloud and Software Architect
LOCATION: TITUSVILLE, FL, ATLANTA, GA, NORTHERN VA, or HUNTSVILLE, AL (CURRENTLY REMOTE)
OVERVIEW:
Don’t be an employee number! Come join PredaSAR, the best commercial space radar company on the planet! We are a unique, fast growing, and trusted team focused on providing the most advanced satellite radar capabilities to clearly see the surface of the earth, anywhere and anytime, providing actionable data to address the unique needs of our clients.
PredaSAR is currently seeking a Lead Engineer Cloud and Software Architect. The ideal candidate will have mid-level experience and a track record of performance in Cloud DevSecOps, data, and software architectures for a space organization. The Lead Engineer will report to the Director, Systems Engineering. This position is an incredible opportunity for an engineer to shape the outcome of a major commercial space capability and continue to grow professionally in a great company.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Your primary responsibility is to lead the effort to design, implement, and test the PredaSAR Enterprise software, data storage, and processing architectures in a multi-cloud environment.
- Collaborate with the engineering team to evaluate commercial products and services that could support the PredaSAR Enterprise; communicate the trades, costs, and merits of each.
- Collaborate with the engineering team and mission partners to develop, implement, and verify interfaces that support Enterprise workflows: customer order and delivery; mission applications; data storage and transport; modeling and simulation; and vendor software.
- Implement DevSecOps best practices.
- Develop, implement, and verify interfaces that enable Enterprise data and storage functions; automated operations; mission assurance; cybersecurity; machine intelligence to conduct performance analysis; and integrated autonomous resolution procedures.
- Write code; develop APIs; maintain up-to-date and streamlined documentation of all code, development environment, software interfaces, execution procedures, testing practices, and all other software interdependencies, functions, and features.
- Establish standard operating procedures that support mission assurance, risk mitigation, and contingency plans to assure required mission up time for all ground activities.
- Develop Key Performance Indicators, metrics, data analytics, and approaches to monitor the performance and health of the enterprise ground architecture.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Ideally, 8+ years professional experience in cloud hosted data and application engineering
- Experience developing capabilities in Amazon GovCloud (US) and/or Microsoft Azure Government Cloud Computing High (GCC-High) cloud environments.
- Scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, etc.
- Excellent leadership, collaboration and organizational skills in technical amp; operational areas
- Impeccable attention to detail and sense of urgency
- Ability to self-govern with minimum supervision, establish workload priorities, and to utilize efficient time management practices to achieve assigned tasks.
- Exceptional interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 22 CFR 120.15 or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
ADDITIONAL DIFFERENTIATORS:
- Master’s degree in science, engineering, math, or a related field
- Amazon AWS and/or Microsoft Azure certifications
- Knowledge of space domain and architectures for space-based remote sensing systems
- Experience in cybersecurity design principles and best practices
- Knowledge of standards for geospatial intelligence data and products
- Recent experience supporting U.S. defense or intelligence customers
- Ability to translate complex technical topics in a clear and compelling fashion
- Familiarity with policies, standards, and regulations of the US government as well as current state of practice in the space industry for satellite operations architectures
SECURITY CLEARANCE:
This position requires the candidate to have a current background investigation that enables adjudication to hold a TS/SCI security clearance and to maintain the clearance.
Benefits
BENEFITS: