Software Developer

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KBRs National Security Solutions team provides highend engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position your work will have a profound impact on the countrys most critical role protecting our national security.

Why Join Us

• Innovative Projects: KBRs work is at the forefront of engineering logistics operations science program management mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

This is a contingent position based upon contract award.

KBR is seeking a midlevel Software Developers to support government customers in Springfield VA. The Software Developer provides software development and technical expertise to support and enable a test and evaluation programs modernization goals. The software engineer will work closely with the scientists and engineers in the image quality domain to identify manual and analytic tasks for automation. Through market research and Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) the Software Developer will propose new epics or additions to existing epics to accomplish automation goals. Task automation services will include code and script generation code testing support to code security accreditation and documenting. In support of the DevOps environment this role will support decomposing existing business process and test tool capabilities into microservices capable of deployment through a DevOps infrastructure. Additionally this role will provide the expertise to effectively analyze the output of DevOps tools and assist the customer in incorporating the results into overall assessments.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct engineering analysis to identify all tasks (both manual and analytic) associated with assessment of system capabilities and interfaces sensor parameters or functions or GEOINT services.

• Conduct engineering analysis to identify candidate tasks for automation.

• Conduct market research to identify automation technologies available on the commercial market that align with mission needs.

• Automate selected tasks through code/script generation or by identifying existing inhouse or commercially available solutions (including opensource alternatives); identify opportunities to consolidate tasks or processes to maximize efficiency or minimize cost.

  • Developed tools shall support objectives such as: functionality testing step automation continuous integration automation automated system monitoring load testing service virtualization performance profiling etc.

• Implement accepted automation solutions in the DevTest environment or internal test environment as directed.

• Design and develop automation scripts tools or applications and appropriate test scenarios to verify the performance capacity and scalability of services and capabilities.

• Provide expertise to analyze output of automated test tools scripts applications and processes to evaluate against established criteria and develop a recommendation to the government and product vendor.

• Provide expert level support of test automation capable of creating and running scripts within government furnished automation and testing tools (e.g. HP ALM CA Service virtualization etc. development.

• Provide web application design development and maintenance

  • for test related web and tools projects

  • for Intelligence Community (IC) Common Operating Environment (COE) Test Environment (IC CTE)related web and tools projects.

• Provide support and expertise to develop custom product quality assessment tools for the full range of traditional and nontraditional imaging systems products and data formats.

• Collaborate with image quality engineers and image scientists to develop custom product quality assessment tools as well as to understand and support existing inhouse developed engineering tools/code written in Matlab IDL Python Visual Basic etc.; provide updates and improvements to these tools as needed.

• Provide technical support and expertise to use update and maintain the existing inhouse developed image quality test tools and future development.

• Provide management test tool development and technical support to the customers mission support tools.

• Analyze performance trends and user experience data to identify parameters for automated governance processes that will facilitate a digital/automated Go/No Go capability.

• Develop implement and maintain an automated governance process in a variety of environments including: bare metal DevOps and cloud computing environments.

Required Education Experience & Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Information Science Data Science or other related field.

• 4 7 years of software development experience using one or more objectoriented programming languages such as C or Java

• Scripting Python SQL or similar

• Strong verbal and written communications skills are required as well as the ability to maintain professionalism in a diverse customer environment

• Database Administration

• ActiveMQ

• HTTPD and website maintenance

• PKI management and user authentication

• Experience with agile development

Security Clearance Requirements: Active TS/SCI with Poly

Belong Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of teams philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong Connect and Grow. We Deliver Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion disability sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age national origin veteran status genetic information union status and/or beliefs or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.