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For the past forty-five plus years, we have supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques to deliver world-class data exploitation capabilities supporting missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability missions.\nImportant Notice: SciTec exclusively works on U.S. government contracts that require U.S. citizenship for all employees. Applicants that do not meet this requirement will not be considered.\nWe are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to serve as our Deployment Environments Domain Lead. In this role, you will establish repeatable, secure, observable, and reliable practices for building, packaging, deploying, and operating the software that supports our mission critical data processing, visualization, and operational workflows. 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reference architectures, architecture decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.\nBuild and maintain validated reference pipelines, Helm charts, container images, and starter templates for common deployment use cases.\nGuide CI/CD pipeline design, automation, artifact management, and reproducible builds.\nEstablish practices for container image construction, dependency management, image optimization, and image security.\nGuide Kubernetes architecture, scheduling, resource management, and workload orchestration.\nEstablish practices for Helm and other deployment packaging, configuration management, and secrets handling.\nImprove local and development environments, environment provisioning, and integration testing workflows.\nGuide deployment strategies, rollback, release promotion, and compatibility management.\nEstablish practices for health checks, observability, resource limits, scaling, resilience, disaster recovery, and software supply-chain security.\nPartner 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and troubleshooting production software systems, including significant experience with build and deployment infrastructure.\nDeep experience with containerization (Docker and/or Podman), including image construction, optimization, and security.\nDeep production experience with Kubernetes, including resource management, scheduling, and troubleshooting.\nExperience packaging and deploying workloads with Helm or similar tools.\nExperience designing and maintaining production CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).\nExperience with local Kubernetes environments (e.g., Minikube, KinD) for development and integration testing.\nExperience with observability, logging, and monitoring for containerized workloads.\nDemonstrated ability to evaluate technical alternatives, validate them through prototypes or pilots, and clearly articulate their tradeoffs.\nProficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript/Node.js.\nComfortable 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any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information\nBenefits\nSciTec offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package, including:\n4% Safe Harbor 401(k) match\n100% company paid HSA Medical insurance, with a choice of 2 buy-up options\n80% company paid Dental insurance\n100% company paid Vision insurance\n100% company paid Life insurance\n100% company paid Long-term Disability insurance\nShort-term Disability insurance\nAnnual Profit-Sharing Plan\nDiscretionary Performance Bonus\nPaid Parental Leave\nGenerous Paid Time Off, including Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Pay\nFlexible Work Hours\nThe pay range for this position is $164,000 - $218,000 / year. SciTec considers several factors when extending an offer of employment, including but not limited to the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills. This is not a guarantee of compensation.\nSciTec is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. 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