About Science and Technology Corporation
About Science and Technology Corporation (STC): STC is a U.S. government contractor providing scientific, engineering, and technical support to federal agencies, with deep roots in NOAA, NASA, and DoD programs. Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Hampton, VA, STC staff support a growing number of operational missions that monitor the Earth through Earth-observing systems and satellite platforms and through direct field research. STC also researches and investigates leading-edge observing technologies and assesses their applicability to operational missions. STC's NOAA Programs team supports a broad range of operational meteorological, environmental, and geospatial programs.
About the AWIPS HIVE Program
STC is seeking candidates to support the National Weather Service (NWS) on the AWIPS Application Environment contract (commonly referred to as HIVE). AWIPS (Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System) is the mission-critical platform used by forecasters at National Weather Service sites nationwide to analyze environmental data and issue the forecasts, watches, and warnings that protect lives and property. Under the HIVE modernization initiative, STC provides engineering and technical talent in direct support of a major cloud transformation effort to move AWIPS from a legacy desktop system to a modern, cloud-native web application built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The program operates in a collaborative Agile environment and involves migrating complex operational meteorological workflows, tools, and data visualization capabilities to a microservices-based architecture with a React/TypeScript frontend and Java/Spring Boot microservices backend.
About This Role
STC is seeking a senior Platform/DevSecOps Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide expert-level leadership and hands-on engineering for the HIVE program's cloud delivery and security posture. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role requiring mastery of GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployment, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code for a custom application stack comprising micro-frontends, APIs, and microservices. Security is built into the pipeline, not bolted on; you will embed scanning, policy enforcement, and compliance evidence into the delivery flow and carry it through to FISMA High/FedRAMP ATO.
Specific Duties Will Include
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Build and maintain observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Container Insights, CloudTrail, Grafana) and threat detection (Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, SIEM)
