Jovian Concepts, Inc is looking to hire a Software Engineer Level 3 for a great opportunity in the Annapolis Junction, MD area.

A current and active TS/SCI Clearance with a Polygraph is required to be considered.

Responsibilities

• 
  Design
  scalable workflows for deploying and managing Kubernetes-native
  applications
• 
  Lead the
  development of reusable Helm charts, GitOps templates, and deployment
  strategies
• 
  Build
  system-aware controllers or agents that automate app lifecycle tasks
• 
  Contribute
  to platform-wide architecture decisions (e.g., deployment strategy,
  multi-cluster config, observability)
• 
  Mentor
  junior engineers and review code for reliability, clarity, and best
  practices
• 
  Collaborate
  with DevOps and platform teams to ensure secure and compliant deployments

Leadership Traits

• 
  Owns
  end-to-end delivery of system components
• 
  Helps
  shape internal standards and shared tooling
• 
  Guides
  team through design decisions and trade-offs
• 
  Thinks in
  systems, not just services

Requirements

• 
  Twenty (20)
  years experience
  as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is
  required.
• 
  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
  or related discipline from an accredited college or university is
  required. Four (4) years of
  additional
  SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Core Skills Required:

• 
  Deep
  experience with Go or Python in cloud-native contexts
• 
  Strong
  Kubernetes experience: CRDs, Helm, GitOps, multi-tenant app deployments
• 
  Experience
  with event-driven or agent-based systems (e.g., Kafka, controller
  patterns)
• 
  Familiar
  with infrastructure automation (Terraform, cloud-init, Ansible)
• 
  Comfortable
  balancing automation and operator oversight in complex environments