Software Engineer 2 - (DevOps, Linux, Python)

United States | Oct. 30, 2026

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Company: Akina, Inc.

Country: United States

Salary: $196,000 - $239,000

Type: Onsite

Employment: Full Time

Description:

Software Engineer 2 - (DevOps, Linux, Python)

Clearance: TS/SCI - Polygraph required
Position ID: 02-541-SWE2
Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland

Description:

This is a DevOps focused position. In this position, the DevOps Software Engineer shall support the software application suite.

The role supports live production operations and system health for availability, reliability, performance, and continuous service delivery.

• Designs, develops, tests, deploys, documents, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements.
• Works individually or as part of a team.
• Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results.
• Resolves software problem reports.
• Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment.
• Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Open-Source Software (OSS) and/or Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) software in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
• Overseeing and monitoring live production operations to ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of the software application suite.
• Identifying, diagnosing, and responding to service disruptions, performance degradation, and operational issues.
• Performing basic troubleshooting and corrective actions.
• Supporting system sustainment activities.
• Collaborating with development and operations teams to maintain system health, improve operational efficiency, and support continuous service delivery.

Position Required Skills:

• Experience developing in Unix
• Ability to perform shell scripting
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management (CM) tools
• Working knowledge of Web Services implementation
• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
• Debug existing software and correct defects
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
• Write or review software and system documentation
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
• Software development using languages such as C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, etc.
• Experience with source code control systems, such as Git
• Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project
• Design and development of relational and non-relational database applications
• Use of orchestration frameworks such as Spring and Kafka
• Familiarization with queue management systems
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
• Develop and execute test procedures for software components
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards and conferring with users or system engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem areas
• Modify existing software to adapt to new hardware or to improve its performance
• Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design decisions
• Java development using the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
• Development of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications
• Experience using collaboration and software development tools (i.e. Atlassian)
• Software development using continuous integration practices
• Experience with container technologies (i.e. Docker)
• Unix shell scripting
• Development of event driven, or data driven analytics
• Development of cloud-based solutions and technologies
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints
• Perform quality control on team products
• Recommend and implement suggestions for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requir

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