Sr. Java/J2EE Security Engineer @ Herndon, VA

IDEAL BACKGROUND: Proficient in several modern programming languages (Python/Java/C/LUA) Experience with the an API gateway Experience running containerized workloads Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery What experience will set candidates apart from one another? Direct support of an API Gateway (kong or Layer7 or DataPower) Experience both with networking hardware and software development Info Security background Primary Responsibilities: Design, modify, develop, write and implement software programming applications in support of the API Gateway. Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, and skilled in Agile development methodologies, including unit testing and continuous integration. Working on an Agile team, participating in Scrum ceremonies and working as a team to fix bugs and work on new features for Kong API Gateway and supporting applications. Customer interaction providing support for Gateway issues by reading Splunk logs and troubleshooting the network stack. Developing Plugins and features into Kong API Gateway product and contributing back to open source. Enhancing monitoring/alerting of applications using Splunk and Grafana/Prometheus. Troubleshooting of network issues using Splunk and working with other teams such as Firewall, F5, and private cloud teams. Part of an on-call support rotation to handle support issues working with application teams to troubleshoot and fix issues. Responsible for large and more complex components, while influencing overall product architecture and patterns. Influences the team designs and solutions. Mentors software engineers through code reviews, and hands on design sessions. Required Qualifications: Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in Software Engineering 2+ year in platform engineering 2+ year software development or engineering Experience in full software lifecycle activities Experience with Agile methodology Experience operationalizing larger products Preferred Qualifications: OSI L4 and L7 networking knowledge, TCP/IP, TLS, IP/DNS Kong/OpenResty API Gateway Java/Python/LUA development Identifies solutions to non-standard requests and problems Solves complex problems and/or conducts complex analyses Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks Experience with Cassandra, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana Experience working in agile environment CI/CD leveraging Github/Docker/Jenkins Direct API Gateway knowledge including Nginx, OpenResty/Kong System Reliability Engineering practices Familiar with HTTP and REST API best practices Administration of Cassandra