System Integrator
Chantilly, VA
Full Time Mid-level / Intermediate Clearance required USD 170K - 210K
Dark Wolf Solutions
The Alpha of technology Dark Wolf Solutions operates at the nexus of mission and technology to meet our Nation’s most challenging missions. JOIN THE PACK Connect Our Background About Us We combine the most innovative emerging technologies with...Dark Wolf Solutions is seeking Systems Integrators to support a team responsible for developing, integrating, and maintaining the NRO’s Clairvoyant Framework on Unclassified, Secret, and Top-Secret SCI domains, including development, test, and operational environments. This role focuses on ensuring seamless integration of diverse components, applications, and data sources within the Framework to deliver a unified and robust intelligence capability. This role is located in Chantilly, VA.
Responsibilities:
- Driving the integration of various software services, data stores, and mission applications into the Clairvoyant Framework, ensuring adherence to architectural principles like modularity, loose coupling, and limited inter-component dependencies.
- Collaborating with development and ML Ops teams to define and implement hosting configurations (e.g., Docker containers) and execute DevOps processes for the secure migration and transition of applications and analytics from test to operational environments across multiple security domains (UNCLASS, SECRET SC2S, TS-SCI C2S/JWICS).
- Working with the Integrated Data Platform (IDP) and Integrated Data Layer (IDL) to ensure integrated intelligence datasets are discoverable and accessible via robust APIs, supporting community-wide data availability and intelligence integration.
- Supporting the integration of common framework and mission services, including authentication & authorization, auditing, real-time monitoring, and orchestration, and integrating tools like Multi-INT Makerspace (M2) and SageMakerSpace for development and prototyping.
- Defining, developing, and executing detailed test procedures and Hosting Test Plans (HTPs) to verify Framework requirements and assess compliance of application hosting mechanisms, ensuring traceability between testing activities and requirements.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in systems integration, systems engineering, software development, or related IT systems development.
- Demonstrated understanding and experience with modern architectural principles, including system openness, modularity, loose coupling, and bounded context, for building extensible and resilient systems.
- Hands-on experience with cloud computing platforms, particularly AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation), and familiarity with Amazon SC2S and C2S environments.
- Proficiency with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and automation scripting (e.g., Python, Bash).
- Familiarity with data integration concepts and API management to support data access and exploitation.
- Understanding of systems engineering practices, including requirements management, testing, and configuration management.
- Ability to work in an Agile development environment, participating in sprint/release planning and backlog grooming.
- US Citizenship and an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility and a successfully completed Counterintelligence Polygraph.
Desired Qualifications:
- Prior experience supporting NRO or other Intelligence Community (IC) missions.
- Familiarity with the I2SPO Multi-INT Makerspace (M2) or SageMakerSpace.
- Knowledge of specific IC or DoD security standards and directives (e.g., ICD 503, NIST SP 800 series).
- Experience contributing to or publishing developed source code or solutions to common repositories.
- Participation in IC activities to improve and advance DevOps tools and processes.
- Familiarity with Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) or Object-Based Production (OBP) concepts.
This position is located in Chantilly, VA.
The estimated salary range for this position is $170,000.00 - $210,000.00, commensurate on Clearance, technical skillset and overall experience. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
Tags: Agile APIs AWS CI/CD CloudFormation Computer Science DevOps Docker EC2 ECS Engineering Kubernetes Lambda Machine Learning Pipelines Prototyping Python Security Testing
Perks/benefits: Team events
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