Senior Software Engineer: DevSecOps & Autonomous Systems

KWAAN; Adelphi (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Kwaan Bear IT Solutions, LLC (KBITS) seeks a Senior Software Engineer with an active DoD Secret Clearance to lead advanced software development, DevSecOps, and autonomous systems integration in Adelphi, Maryland.

You will design and deploy software across Linux, embedded, cloud and HPC environments, architect CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to ML workflows and mission data pipelines. The role emphasizes security, documentation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of software engineering/app development experience; or 12+ years in lieu of a degree.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance; DoD 8570/8140 certifications as required.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and sustain software applications, services, APIs, command-line tools, and supporting infrastructure
• Architect DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and software release pipelines; support modeling, performance assessment, synthetic data generation, and large-scale testing
• Build and maintain mission data ingestion, processing, annotation, storage, and analytics pipelines
• Develop ML and computer vision support capabilities, including model training, evaluation, data labeling, and automation frameworks
• Create post-mission analysis, performance assessment, fault analysis, visualization, and reporting tools
• Integrate software across autonomous platforms and government applications; support HPC, cloud, embedded, Linux, and containerized environments
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and identify automation opportunities to improve development efficiency and software quality

Skills

Python

C++

Bash

Scripting

ROS/ROS2

Git

GitLab

Docker

Containerization

CI/CD

Linux

Embedded systems

DevSecOps

Machine learning workflows

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

GitLab

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Kwaan Bear IT Solutions, LLC (KBITS) seeks a Senior Software Engineer with an active DoD Secret Clearance to lead advanced software development, DevSecOps, and autonomous systems integration in Adelphi, Maryland.

You will design and deploy software across Linux, embedded, cloud and HPC environments, architect CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to ML workflows and mission data pipelines. The role emphasizes security, documentation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.