Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Job Description
About Metron
Metron is an employee-owned company dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for the most challenging national security problems. For over 40 years, our principled approach to problem-solving has yielded creative solutions at the intersection of advanced mathematics, computer science, physics, and engineering. Our people are leaders in their technical fields and are passionate about solving challenging problems. We look for individuals who share this same passion and can apply their experience in real-world settings.
Our Reston team is seeking a mid-level Infrastructure Engineer to help build, deploy, and operate the systems that support mission-focused software in production. This role is for someone who can improve how software moves from development into operational environments, while ensuring those environments remain reliable, observable, and maintainable. A successful candidate will work across containerized deployments, release automation, production monitoring, incident response, and integrations with external systems. The strongest candidates will bring hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker, solid software development fundamentals, and the ability to deliver reliable platform solutions in secure, operationally constrained environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Build release pipelines to deploy code both on-premises and on deployed systems
- Incident Response to ensure high uptime of deployed software
- Facilitate integrations with other systems
Required Qualifications
- Bachelorβs degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, applied math, or related field
- At least 3 years of industry experience
- Active TS/SCI Security Clearance
- Experience in Helm, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Proven experience and understanding of software deployment lifecycles on both cloud platforms and local on-premises hardware
- Software Development experience in Java, Rust or Typescript/React
- Ability to work effectively with researchers, engineers, and end users to translate technical concepts into usable software
- Familiarity with full-stack web application development in any frameworks/languages
- U.S. CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED; successful candidates will be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information
Desired Qualifications
- Experience using ADO, Gitlab, ArgoCD or similar CI/CD tools
- Experience with Keycloak or similar authentication systems
- Experience with logging tools such as Grafana, Loki, and Alloy
- Incident Response
- Experience facilitating integrations with other systems
Position Location: Reston, VA
*The selected individual(s) will be required to work from the Reston, VA office 5 days a week
Perks and Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Accompanying FSA and HSA options
- Additional Voluntary Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- 9 Observed Holidays and 2 Floating Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
- Professional Development Reimbursement
- Annual Salary Reviews
- Profit Sharing
- 401(k) Traditional and Roth Options
- Gym and Fitness Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Program
Metron is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religious, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
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Job Information
- Work Arrangement On-site
- Location Reston, VA, United States
- Posted 25 days ago
About the Company
Metron is an award-winning, trusted provider of advanced research, scientific, and software solutions for government and commercial markets. The Com...
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