Software Engineer 3 [D.26.0140]

Requires Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Poly

Salary Range: $242k-$265k per year with an additional $60k-$66k in immediately vested company 401(k) contributions

Description: Will be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team delivering highly sophisticated, technical, hands-on training solutions to meet the mission and time-critical needs of our customers using custom solutions and modern software development frameworks. The team is focused on the development of tailored, high quality, timely software solutions for use by instructional staff members and students. The team implements all parts of the software development process; from configuring and managing the deployment and support environment to writing, testing, and deploying the code. If you are a software engineer or have web application development or DevOps experience, are a self-starting enterprising person, and are looking to expand your knowledge in all parts of application development, then this is the position for you.

Essential Responsibilities:

The DevOps team's responsibilities include capturing and evaluating requirements, designing services, pipelines and user interfaces/experiences (UI/UX) that are elegant and forward-thinking, selecting and implementing technologies that are the best fit for the application, managing and configuring the application code, documenting, testing, and maintaining the application during its lifespan. This will include many of the following actions and more as requirements demand.

• Designing, developing, troubleshooting, and analyzing software programs for computer-based training.
• Research, document, and test security solutions for emerging technologies, security methodologies, and CNE concepts.
• Support the development of comprehensive, tactically relevant operational training through the design, development, and implementation of training scenarios required to prepare students for operations.
• Work with a team of multi-disciplinary professionals to create, evaluate, and apply necessary updates based on recommendations for course content and training material updates.
• Advancing the maturity of, and troubleshooting issues with, existing class management tools to support and ensure delivery and grading of student activities.
• Creating and maintaining virtualized systems that are used to facilitate and simulate real-world scenarios that create an immersive cyber-environment for students.
• Performing system modeling, simulation and analysis.
• Designing and developing utility programs and operations systems and conducting detailed analysis of system specifications.
• Providing input for documentation of new or existing programs, associated documentation, block diagrams and logic flow charts applied to engineering problems.
• Verifying accuracy and completeness of programs by preparing sample data, conducting programs tests, analyzing test results and logs, and debugging programs errors.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum thirteen (13) years of applicable software development experience. A Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or related field can be substituted for three (3) years of experience. A Master's degree in a Computer Science or related field can be substituted for eight (8) years of experience.
• Demonstrate knowledge of commonly used application programming languages, frameworks and components (to include, but not limited to: Python, Ruby, shell scripting, C++, HTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON/XML, JavaScript/TypeScript and JQuery,
• React, SQL/NoSQL and relational databases, etc...).
• A working knowledge of both Windows and Linux platforms e.g. set up, maintenance, or administration of servers and workstations.
• Experience working with agile methodologies
• Experience setting up and maintaining services, hosts, and networking in virtualized environments to create or support realistic interactive learning e.g. VMWare, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

Minimum Education:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and five (5) years of applicable software development experience is required. OR A Bachelor's Degree and five (5) additional years of experience is acceptable for a total of ten (10) years of applicable software development experience. OR Three (3) years of experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree is acceptable, for a total of thirteen (13) years of applicable software development experience.

Required Certifications:

• Sec+ or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications:

The DevOps team positions require fully cleared individuals with an extensive range of experience and abilities to develop applications for Computer Network Operations. As a team we implement and support all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle and recognize the benefit of having team members that specialize in specific stages of that cycle. As a team member you should be able to fit into at least one of the following specializations (UI/UX, Backend Services, DevOps/Integration) with a desire or ability to expand into at least one other specialization.

UI/UX specialist: Focus on designing and creating the student and instructor facing interfaces and need the following skills at a minimum:

• develop aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly front ends using frameworks like react, angular, and svelte
• develop and implement test beds and use test suites such as jUnit or PyTest for robust testing practices
• interface with API endpoints, databases, and other dataflow solutions
• perform trend analysis of student activities and identify potential improvements to course delivery systems and interfaces.

Backend Service specialist: Focus on creating dataflow components to collect, parse, and provide the information to other services or for exfiltration and deliverables. You will need the following skills at a minimum:

• develop services, APIs and dataflow solutions using various languages and frameworks such as Python Flask, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.JS, Express/Hono, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Go.
• design and implement database schemas across multiple systems with and without replication using SQL and NoSQL solutions
• develop scripts, scrapers and parsers in support of automated grading and course delivery
• develop and implement test beds and use test suites such as jUnit or PyTest for robust testing practices
• administer, configure, and maintain common Unix/Linux and Windows Server variants
• create and configure virtual hosts and networks using VMware in support of developing real-world scenarios

DevOps/Integration specialist: Focus on the management and maintenance of the virtualization and deployment solutions used to ensure rapid validated deployments of services and applications. You will need the following skills at a minimum:

• design and implement flexible and robust CI/CD pipelines to enhance the software development lifecycle using solutions such as GitLab
• plan, implement, and maintain scalable application and service deployments in an on-premises Kubernetes clusters using tools like helm, fleet, git, rancher, lens, or k9s
• develop and deploy applications, services, and systems within virtualized environments, preferably vSphere, Docker, and Kubernetes
• support API and dataflow systems
• perform HTTPS certificate management
• design service, application, and network architectures to support deployment and data flow
• develop and implement test beds and use test suites such as jUnit or PyTest for robust testing practices

All team members regardless of their specialization will be expected to:

• demonstrate the ability to parse and understand existing code bases, contributing to the continued development of class management tools
• perform trend analysis of student activities and identify potential improvements to course delivery systems and interfaces
• develop software solutions using languages such as Python, Shell scripting or Node.js
• develop and deploy applications, services, and systems within virtualized environments such as vSphere and Docker
• create and manage applications using industry standard package managers (apt, yum, pip, npm, nuget, etc...)
• show proficiency in using source code management systems, with a focus on Git
• apply valid software development pipelines to develop, test, document and deploy projects
• use and receive tasking through project management systems such as Jira or GitLab
• provide comprehensive documentation and support for various levels of customers
• be a self-motivated individual that can think outside the box to stay ahead of issues that could prevent the successful delivery of course material and activities while supporting the team as a whole
• learn about the other specializations to better work with and support other development efforts
• provide recommendations for technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems
• lead development activities, showcasing the ability to guide and manage software engineering projects
• mentor junior team members