Software Engineer III
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026. American Express scores A on the Alion truth index.
This is a technical role responsible for designing, developing, automating, and supporting enterprise infrastructure platforms and services. The engineer will combine software development expertise with hands-on infrastructure knowledge to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions across virtualized, containerized, and data-center environments.
Design and develop Java- and Python-based services, APIs, integrations, and automation for infrastructure platforms.
Engineer and support end-to-end virtual-machine provisioning workflows, including template and golden-image creation, validation, security scanning, release, and lifecycle maintenance.
Automate infrastructure operations through Ansible and AAP using reusable playbooks, roles, inventories, and workflows.
Integrate provisioning solutions with VMware, network services, DNS, databases, security tooling, and enterprise platforms.
Develop and maintain Kubernetes-based workloads, deployment artifacts, configuration, and operational controls.
Troubleshoot complex issues across application, operating-system, virtualization, database, and network layers.
Apply secure engineering, vulnerability remediation, compliance, observability, resilience, and change-management practices.
Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, mentoring, and process improvement.
Minimum experience: 10-12 years of relevant experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a related technology domain.
Software engineering experience: Strong experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting production-grade services and automation solutions.
Java: Strong hands-on development skills in Java, including APIs, object-oriented design, debugging, and maintainable coding practices.
Python: Strong Python skills for automation, API integrations, orchestration, tooling, and microservice development.
Infrastructure knowledge: Demonstrated understanding of enterprise compute, storage, operating systems, virtualization, provisioning, monitoring, security, and change-management practices.
VMware and provisioning: Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, virtual machines, provisioning workflows, VM templates, golden images, image lifecycle management, and security or vulnerability scans.
Networking: Strong understanding of VLANs, subnets, DNS, TCP/IP, routing fundamentals, firewalls, and connectivity troubleshooting.
Automation: Hands-on experience with Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), playbooks, inventories, roles, workflows, and infrastructure automation.
Data platforms: Working knowledge of SQL and PostgreSQL, including schema fundamentals, queries, integrations, and operational troubleshooting.
Containers: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift, containerized workloads, deployments, services, configuration, and troubleshooting.
DevOps: Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions or Jenkins, secure delivery practices, and automated testing.
Collaboration: Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, written communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.