System Interoperability and Integration Engineer Principle

Applied Research Solutions; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Research Solutions seeks a full-time System Interoperability and Integration Engineer Principal to work at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX. The role emphasizes building automated, metrics-driven delivery pipelines and robust integration across complex legacy systems.

You will guide DevOps practices, lead automated metrics development for the Air Force, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve continuous delivery and system quality.

Qualifications

• Must understand interoperability and system integration in DoD/AF environments.
• Experience implementing DevOps practices and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Wamiliarity with metric-driven delivery and automated testing processes.

Responsibilities

• Configure pipelines to automate metric gathering.
• Create enterprise data visibility for AF CSO.
• Develop stable delivery pipelines on our platform.
• Lead automated metrics model development for the Air Force.
• Improve continuous testing processes to detect defects early.
• Identify and remove constraints in development flow.
• Provide training to teams on delivery accelerated practices.
• Design support for CD pipelines on complex legacy systems.
• Promote DevOps culture with data-driven improvements.
• Coordinate internal/external speakers for DevOps learning opportunities.
• Establish feedback cycles to improve platform value streams.
• Develop strategies to share best practices across teams.
• Lead the “Coaching as a Service” concept for self-identification of delivery issues.
• Explore gamification and automated suggestions for next steps.
• Recognize teams for improved outcomes via resilient applications.

Skills

Interoperability engineering

DevOps

Continuous delivery

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Applied Research Solutions is seeking a full-time System Interoperability and Integration Engineer Principle located at Lackland AFB - San Antonio, TX.

Why Work with us ?

Applied Research Solutions (ARS) is respected as a world‑class provider of technically integrated solutions as we deliver premier talent and technology across our focused markets for unparalleled, continuous mission support.Awarded a Best Places to Work nominee since 2020, ARS recognizes that without our career‑driven, loyal professionals, we would not be able to deliver state‑of-the‑art results for our mission partners. We firmly believe that prioritizing our employees is of the upmost importance. We provide a culture where our employees are challenged to meet their career goals and aspirations, while still obtaining a work/life balance. ARS employees are motivated through our industry competitive benefits package, our awards and recognition program, and personalized attention from ARS Senior Managers.

Responsibilities include:

• Configure Party Bus pipelines to automate metric gathering.
• Create enterprise data visibility for the AF CSO.
• Assist teams with developing stable delivery pipelines using recommended patterns and practices with our standard platform.
• Lead the creation of an automated metrics model and process for the Air Force and assist teams and leadership with what to measure and how to use those metrics to drive improvement.
• Help teams with the thought process, design, and improvement of the continuous testing processes needed to improve quality in the entire delivery process and detect defects as early as possible.
• Help teams uncover constraints in their development flow that prevent continuous integration, slow down delivery, and impact quality so they can be addressed as part of a continuous improvement process.
• Training of teams on the skills required to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
• Design support for architecting CD pipelines on complex legacy systems.
• Evangelism and skills workshops focused on the culture, automation, lean process, and metrics required for DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
• Support and establish DevOps conferences with internal and external speakers and learning opportunities.
• Establish a feedback cycle to support developer advocacy with seamless flow of information to platform value streams on improvements that can help the teams.
• Develop strategy to remediate the need for every team discovering good practices in isolation.
• "Coaching as a Service" Application: An application to allow teams self-identify delivery issues and then be directed to our technical and process playbooks to address those issues.
• Discovery and Development around how this can utilize gamification and automated suggestions for next steps.
• Use metrics and business results to recognize teams for improving outcomes with highly resilient applications that can quickly evolve to meet warfighter needs.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications/ Technical Experience Requirements:

• Must be US Citizen
• TS/SCI Clearance required;
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering or related field
• 7 years of interoperability and integration engineering experience
• 5+ years of DevOps experience and continuous delivery