Rapid Response Engineer

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Leidos Defense Systems Land Systems is seeking a Rapid Response Engineer to join our teamwith the ability and experience to work missile defense projects within the BMD Simulations and Analysis Portfolio. As a Rapid Response Engineer you will have the opportunity to use your troubleshooting skills to investigate anomalies defects or issues in products or processes using structured methodologies (5 Whys Fishbone etc.) to find underlying causes assess impacts and implement prototype solutions with cross-functional teams documenting findings for this role you will also work across multiple software products and tools at the customer site or within the Agile SW development environment. The ideal candidate will possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills be a strong team player and have the ability to establish solid working relationships with peers and technical staff members within the program.

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Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate root cause analysis investigations for complex technical issues product failures process deviations and quality incidents

• Collect and analyze relevant data from various sources including product data test results customer feedback and system logs

• Conduct detailed failure analysis investigations on software product observations

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including SW product management SW developers system architects test engineers system administrators lab integrators and other stakeholders to gather information and develop comprehensive solutions

• Document findings and present conclusions and recommended corrective and preventive actions to stakeholders and management

• Develop and implement effective solutions to prevent product defect or process issues from recurring.

• Identify systemic issues and opportunities for improvement across processes and SW products based on recurring root causes

• Provide training and coaching on RCA methodologies and problem-solving techniques to other team members

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree with 20-25 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 15-20 years of prior relevant experience

• Proven experience and in-depth knowledge of C java or Python

• Excellent hardware and software debugging skills (Hands-on and Remote).

• Basic skills with version control tools such as Git

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data diagnose configuration errors and identify causal relationships.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Mus be a US citizen possess and maintain an Active secret clearance

• Full time onsite support

• Candidate MUST be a resident of the North Alabama area

Preferred Qualifications

• Agile Scrum Experience

• Experience with Java and user interfaces

• Experience with Jira - issue tracking and agile project management or similar tool

• Multi-core and multi-threaded programming

• Familiarity with MDA Sensors and/or missile defense systems

• Familiarity with modeling and simulation tools

• Understanding of systems engineering concepts (not required to be a systems engineer)

• Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

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