Senior Staff Software Engineer

Come put your software engineering skills into action! The Command and Control Incident Management Emergency Response Application (C2IMERA) program in Leidos National Security Sector has current job opportunities for talented Senior Staff Software Engineers. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with an outstanding team of software developers and engineers to continue to produce and field software on behalf of the US Air Force.

The responsibilities for this position include all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation architecture and design coding and automated testing within an Agile and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery this role you will join a dynamic team that is singularly focused on providing world class solutions to our Department of Defense customers in an exciting collaborative and inclusive atmosphere. You will be challenged and provided a tremendous opportunity for growth in a customer-facing fast-paced and fun environment.

As a leader you will architect design build and enhance highly available and scalable systems used by Air Force customers worldwide. You will direct major deliverables of projects through all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation architecture and design coding and unit testing. Additionally you will determine and recommend the best designs based on customer business objectives timelines and other resource constraints.

This position does allow remote work but candidates that are able to occasionally be onsite at any of the following locations would be preferred. The ideal locations would include Newport News VA; Lexington MA; Orlando FL; Charlottesville VA; Omaha NE; or Morgantown WV.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecting with AWS solutions as well as defining optimal design solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications and drive scope definition requirements analysis functional and technical design application build production configuration unit testing and production deployment.
• Ensure that network architecture and application development methodologies accounted for such as multi-tenancy virtualization elastic scalability relational databases data storage data monitoring and IT transformation.
• Help build manage and mentor multi-disciplined teams executing Agile and DevSecOps processes using best-of-breed tools.
• Cultivate a culture of innovation and promote collaboration across teams and projects.
• Design develop test deploy maintain and continuously improve our software deliverables.
• Manage project priorities deadlines and deliverables.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree with 12 years of experience or a Masters degree with 8 years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
• Hands-on expertise with Java/C and object oriented programming.
• Strong proficiency with basic web technologies including HTML CSS REST JSON and JavaScript.
• Demonstrated proficiency with web application technologies and deployment environments including Docker Kafka and Kubernetes
• Experience architecting developing and delivering complex software systems into production
• Strong understanding of modern software design patterns and coding standards
• Significant experience in Cloud Technologies (specifically AWS) and infrastructure-as-code concepts
• Experience leading multi-disciplined technical project teams and setting the technical direction
• Working knowledge of Agile development and continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• Experience with a version control system (e.g. Git)
• Experience with an issue/problem tracking system (e.g. Jira)
• Proficiency with multiple operating systems (Mac OSX Windows Linux etc.)
• Interest and ability to learn new programming languages tools frameworks and techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

• US Citizen with an active Secret clearance
• AWS Cloud Solutions Architect-Associate or Professional Certification
• CompTIA Security Certification
• Experience with multiple AWS services such as AWS AMI AWS CloudTrail AWS CloudWatch AWS Config AWS GuardDuty AWS Java SDK and/or AWS Simple Storage Service
• Hands-on experience with Agile management tools such as Jira Bitbucket GitLab Confluence
• Hands-on experience with continuous integration and delivery tools such as Jenkins SonarQube JUnit Cucumber Selenium JMeter
• Experience with the Leidos software application C2IMERA its predecessors or similar
• Experience managing projects within the Atlassian suite of tools (Confluence JIRA Bitbucket)
• Familiarity with the agile software development process.

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