Software Engineer

Acuity is growing and looking to hire an additional Software Engineer to support one of our premier federal clients.  Acuity, Inc. seeks a dynamic, self-motivated individual with experience, knowledge and technical skills for a position as a Software Engineer.

In return, Acuity Inc offers a great company culture with wonderful work/life balance and a robust compensation package which includes Health/Dental/Vision, up to $6K training & professional development benefit annually, 401K matching, corporate events/team-building and more!

Acuity was awarded "Best Places to Work" by the Washington Business Journal for over 8 years(2010 - 2014, 2015, 2017-2021, 2023) and "Top Workplaces" by Washington Post (2022, 2023). www.myacuity.com

What you 'll be doing:

If you are a Full-stack developer who is comfortable in CentOS/RHEL and has experience implementing Open Source Software-based solutions this opportunity is for you. The Clients office develops secure computing enclaves and integrates software into them to meet specific mission needs. Serving those needs, you will perform software design, development, test, and deployment activities of secure enclaves and applications in commercial and government cloud platforms on networks at all security levels.

Required Skills:

• Extensive experience in the AWS cloud building/deploying infrastructure for systems that use EC2, Lambda and S3.
• Demonstrated experience working with a team of developers and leading the project effort.
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code software, such as Terraform, Packer, Cloud Formation, and Ansible.
• Demonstrated experience with maintaining tools built to automate deployment and management of AWS environments.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS Lambda and Step Functions.
• Demonstrated experience with technologies such as micro-services and Docker containers.
• Demonstrated experience with publish-subscribe message broker applications such as AWS SQS/SNS, Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Demonstrated experience with managing DevOps tools and processes in support of development activities.
• Demonstrated experience with designing, developing, and implementing immutable and ephemeral services and cloud infrastructure on networks.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining solutions based on infrastructure-as-code software.
• Demonstrated experience performing software or system development on Linux platforms.
• Demonstrated experience working with Linux operating systems such as CentOS or RHEL.
• Demonstrated experience working with web servers such as Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat, and Nginx.
• Demonstrated experience scripting languages such as Shell and Python.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented languages and programming, such as Java.
• Demonstrated experience working with web technologies such as CSS and HTML.
• Demonstrated experience using version control systems such as GitHub.
• Demonstrated experience using build automation and continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins.
• Demonstrated experience with Hashicorp’s Packer, Terraform, or Cloud Formation.
• Demonstrated experience with Bash scripting and Python scripting.

Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrated experience installing, configuring, deploy, and managing Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (namely, Terraform and Packer).
• Demonstrated experience taking a system through the Client’s current security accreditation process and experience with the Client’s accreditation tool.
• Demonstrated experience with Java and Go.
• Demonstrated experience with Docker containers.
• Demonstrated experience using AWS DynamoDB, RDS, or MySQL databases.
• Demonstrated experience with applications such as Apache Web Server, ElasticSearch Logstash, and Kibana (ELK), Hashicorp Consul or Hashicorp Vault.
• Certifications:
• AWS System Architecture or similar
• Project management or similar

Clearance Requirements:

• TS/SCI w/Poly

About Acuity Inc

Acuity is a leading management and technology consulting firm that specializes in serving the federal government. Our innovative, collaborative and rewarding work environment has earned repeat honors from the Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work and SmartCEO Corporate Culture awards. 

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.