Job Description

Title: Staff Software Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Seattle/Remote

Rate of pay: $120,000 - $170,000

Company Overview

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is a leading global technology company providing terrestrial and wireless network solutions, next-9-1-1 emergency services, satellite and space communications technologies, and cloud capabilities to commercial and government customers around the world. Our unique culture of innovation and employee empowerment unleashes a relentless passion for customer success. With multiple facilities located in technology corridors throughout the United States and around the world, Comtech leverages our global presence, technology leadership, and decades of experience to create the world’s most innovative communications solutions. For more information, please visit .

Responsibilities

1. Work with other Design Engineers to plan, design, and implement systems in a heterogeneous, distributed computing environment.
2. Cloud design/development of platform software components that include integration, configuration management, and deployment automation of various software components for cloud deployments.
3. Development of middleware components that offer configuration management, monitoring, etc. for applications.
4. VM/container image building.
5. System administration.
6. Setting up networking/routes/load balancing gears and troubleshooting network issues.
7. System monitoring.
8. Designing backup/recovery solutions.
9. Designing upgrade/rollback solutions.
10. Engineering solutions for integrating third-party databases with high availability.
11. Providing leadership in enabling and enforcing security controls on VMs, servers, network, and cloud architectures, and analyzing security issues and identifying fixes based on vulnerability reports.
12. Implementing solutions for high availability for products to survive in mission-critical environments.
13. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

1. BS in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronic, or Telecommunications Engineering. MS preferred.
2. 10-15 years of Cloud Development or DevOps experience, preferably in the telecom industry.
3. Experience with designing, building, effective management, and monitoring of applications that are natively adapted to work in the cloud on the Kubernetes platform.
4. Well-versed with Kubernetes control plane.
5. Design and manage containerized applications using Docker.
6. Infrastructure and deployment automation via Ansible.
7. Design and deploy high-performance server applications with Node.js.
8. Unix/Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, RedHat) system administration skills.
9. Networking skills with abilities to build, develop, maintain, and performance-tune data networks on the systems developed.
10. Expertise with integrating load balancers/Ingress controllers into the solution.
11. Database (Postgres) configuration and management.
12. Well-versed at integrating off-the-shelf third-party components and providing reliable and highly-available solutions.
13. Product development using OpenStack framework facilitating public/private cloud deployments.
14. Familiarity with OpenShift and Tanzu environments is a big plus.
15. Network security and system security experience.
16. Bash/Bourne shell scripting and standard Unix tools (sed, awk, Expect, etc.).
17. Building, automating, and supporting distributed computing environments.
18. Agile development.

Desired Skills

1. AWS cloud development/deployment.
2. Experience with disaster recovery methods.
3. Source code management tools such as Perforce, Git.
4. Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence, Fisheye/Crucible).
5. Packer.
6. VM Ware deployment.
7. Python.
8. Kickstart/PXE Boot/Grub.
9. CFEngine.
10. Logical Volume Manager.
11. YUM Repositories.
12. SNMP.
13. TCP/IP socket connection theory and programming.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.