Developer, Sr; Honolulu

Full time | Referentia Systems Inc | United States

Posted On 10/14/2025

Cybersecurity

City Honolulu

State/Province Hawaii

96819

* Position is based in Honolulu, HI, and requires occasional onsite work for access to secured government site.

Duties

• Takes high level requirements to engineering requirements, while ensuring the requirements are accurately implemented and verified, to include, but not limited
  1) derive requirements ~ 5% time;
  2) solution requirements ~10% time;
  3) implement requirements ~85% time
• Supports estimation of requirements’ implementation levels of effort and schedule, and provides technical guidance for other development team members
• Responsible for architectural designs, component integration, prototype/demonstration construction, and testing
• Supports Information Assurance SMEs with security and information assurance requirements elicitation based on customer and subject matter expert communication and independent research
• Supports system installation and management in operational and demonstration environments as required
• Provides pre-deployment planning, engineering, integration, configuration, programming and accreditation support; provides plans for installation and user training
• Help provide instruction and technical support to customers on an as‑needed basis
• Addresses Dev Sec Ops  tools’ findings for multiple CI/CD pipelines
• Performs all other duties, as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field. Equivalent experience may be substituted for education requirement. Master’s degree in similar field is highly desired
• Must have 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including at least 3 years in the DoD/Federal regulatory environment. Master’s degree may substitute for 2 years of experience
• Must have 2+ years of experience in Linux and/or Unix system administration
• Certification in accordance with the DoD 8140 Foundational or Intermediate level qualifications met with either certification, education or training (Preferred certifications – Foundational (GISF, Security+, CND) or Intermediate (CySA+, Cloud+, CND, CCNP))
• Must be able to context switch between requirement implementation and support of user‑reported issues / operation environment issues
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
• Ability to implement, monitor and maintain quality control standards required
• Knowledge in virtualization technologies, networking, cloud configuration automation technologies, system administration, and system security is preferred
• Experience working in CI/CD platforms and addressing Dev Sec Ops  pipelines findings is preferred
• Knowledge of NIST Special Publication 800 cybersecurity references such as the Risk Management Framework and NIST 800-53 is preferred
• Must be able to work in person in Honolulu, HI
• Active DoD security clearance is required

Referentia offers a comprehensive set of benefits which includes health insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, drug), paid time off, group term life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, income protection coverage, 401K retirement plan with employer matching, tuition reimbursement, and more.

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.