Job Title : Senior Software Engineer
Department : LocPlatform Custom
Revision Date : 9 / 19 / 25
FLSA : Exempt
Location : Seattle, WA Preferred (Remote – OK)
Level : T3
Rate of Pay : $127,000 -$150,000 USD
Company Overview : Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is a leading global technology company providing terrestrial and wireless network solutions, next-generation 9-1-1 emergency services, satellite and space communications technologies, and cloud-native 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 www.comtech.com.
Purpose : This Senior Software Engineer is a highly seasoned individual that works on complex development assignments and delivers solutions qualified for in-network / hosted Telecom product operation. Candidate is expected to have a firm grasp of system administration, network protocols, networking issues and solutions, system monitoring, configuration management, databases and cloud / containerized deployments. Candidates should be able to design solutions to facilitate product operation. The candidate may act as a member of quick-response deployment-support team and will often work under demanding deadlines, operating as a team member as well as independently to resolve complex problems. Candidate will be working in an agile environment where he / she is expected to carry out both development and testing.
Responsibilities
- Work with other Design Engineers to plan, design and implement systems in a heterogeneous, distributed computing environment
- Cloud-native design / development of platform software components that include components that involve integration, configuration management and deployment automation of various software components for cloud / containerized deployments
- Development of middle-ware components that offer configuration management, monitoring etc. for applications
- VM / container image building
- System administration
- Setting up networking / routes / load balancing gears and troubleshooting network issues; System monitoring
- Designing Backup / recovery solutions
- Designing Upgrade / rollback solutions
- Engineering solutions for integrating third-party databases with high availability
- Provides leadership in enabling and enforcing security controls on VMs, servers, network, and cloud architectures and analyzes security issues and identify fixes based on vulnerability reports
- Implement solutions for high-availability for products to survive in mission-critical environments
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
10-15 years of Cloud-native Development or DevOps experience preferably in telecom industryProduct development using OpenStack framework facilitating public / private cloud deploymentsExperience working with managed Kubernetes environments such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Experience with designing, building, effective management and monitoring of applications that are natively adapted to work in the cloud and on the Kubernetes platformWell-versed with Kubernetes control planeDesign and manage containerized applications using DockerInfrastructure and deployment automation via AnsibleDesign and deploy high performance server applications with Node.jsUnix / Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, RedHat) system administration skillsNetworking skills with abilities to build, develop, maintain and performance-tune data networks on the systems developedExpertise with integrating load balancers / Ingress controllers into the solutionDatabase (Postgres) configuration and managementWell-versed with Message Queues such as Kafka and key-value stores like RedisWell-versed at integrating off-the-shelf third-party components and providing reliable and highly available solutionsNetwork security and system security experience keeping up with mitigating vulnerabilities / CVEsBash / Bourne shell scripting and standard Unix tools (sed, awk, Expect etc.)Building, automating, and supporting distributed computing environmentsAgile developmentFamiliarity with Managed K8s environments such as Red Hat OpenShift and VMware Tanzu OpenShift and Tanzu environments is a big plusAWS cloud development / deploymentExperience with disaster recovery methodsSource code management tools such as Perforce, GitAtlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence, Fisheye / Crucible)PackerVMware deploymentPythonKickstart / PXE Boot / GrubCFEngineLogical Volume ManagerYUM RepositoriesSNMPTCP / IP socket connection theory and programmingQualifications
BS in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronic, or Telecommunications Engineering. MS PreferredComtech Telecommunications Corp. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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