Kibana Dashboard Engineer

SES seeks a Kibana Dashboard Engineer to support the Enterprise Situational Awareness/Common Operational Picture (SA/COP) Team.

Joint Management Tool (JMT) supports the effective planning, deployment, trouble management, and decommissioning of deployed and non-deployed Satellite Communications (SATCOM) resources, specifically those supporting Department of Defense (DoD), mission partner (other U.S. federal agency), and international partner missions. Through the implementation of automated workflows and dynamic user interfaces, the JMT system strives to streamline business processes and significantly reduce the recurrence and impact of human error by functioning as a homogenous platform through which SATCOM planners, provisioners, operators, and customers can seamlessly coordinate SATCOM requests. 

As a key SA/COP team member, you will work as part of a fast paced, Agile development and implementation team to architect, design and develop a unified User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI) that provides a holistic single-pane-of-glass interface for an integrated solution on the ELK platform. You will also work with operational end users and support teams to perform requirements analysis, as well as design and development.

Requirements

The successful candidate primary responsibility will:

• Researching, designing, developing and user-testing experiences and making strategic user-experience decisions while working closely with product owners, engineers and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
• Create Kibana visualizations and dashboards using React, JavaScript and HTML.
• Design, develop, document, test and deploy applications and UI prototypes in JavaScript, HTML and CSS on the Kibana platform.
• Integrating UI components with CI/CD build/deployment pipelines that use Cloudbees/Jenkins, Artifactory, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker and Bitbucket.
• Designing, development, documenting, testing and deploying applications and UI prototypes.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a relevant technical discipline and 8+ year of related experience obtained through any combination of coursework and internships.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a relevant technical discipline and 4+ year of related experience obtained through any combination of coursework and internships.
• Must hold an active Interim Secret DoD Security clearance.
• Ability to obtain Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 14 days of the start date.
• Software development experience with Python, Java and SQL. Working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript.
• Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.
• Experience developing software on a UNIX command line platform.
• Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team.
• Must be able to commute to Scott AFB, IL, Ft. Meade, MD, or Ogden, UT two/three times per week for on-site support
• 2+ years of demonstrable experience designing, developing and deploying dashboards and reports using the Elastic stack, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats.
• Experience in architecture, design, develop, and delivery of data driven operations capabilities, within a DoD environment.
• Experience using project management tools such as Jira and Confluence to document requirements, acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Experience working with a highly technical team and in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, systems engineers, and architects.
• Candidate to be able to work with strict deadlines.
• Ability to work well/collaborate with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with and convey focused messages to stakeholders, customers, domain experts, program managers and teammates.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data Visualization and dashboards
• Elastic/Kibana Certified Engineer.
• Knowledge with Elastic stack security features, such as client authentication, SSL/TLS configuration, and role-based document filtering.
• Software design and development experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS and JSON/REST APIs in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
• Experience developing, building and deploying software using Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).
• Experience with big data applications.
• Experience with cloud-based AWS services.
• Experience designing, developing and deploying solutions using DevOps/DevSecOps concepts.
• Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards.
• Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team
• Experience or familiarity with Agile development and testing methodology
• Experience with DISA and DoD Networks.
• Experience with big data applications
• Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team.
• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps, Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD implementation
• Understanding of network routing devices and network device configurations

Benefits

SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• AD&D
• STD
• LTD
• Company paid Life Insurance
• 401k with employer contribution
• Paid Time Off
• Pet Insurance