Software Engineer II DevOps & Infrastructure Automation

SALARY RANGE $190,000 - $250,000/year

DUTIES As a successful candidate for the Software Engineer II role, you will develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software systems, including processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems based on documented requirements. You will work independently or as part of a team to review and test software components for adherence to design requirements and document test results. You will utilize software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment and provide input to the software components of system design, including hardware and software trade-offs, software reuse, the use of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) solutions in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from the system level to individual software components.



SKILLS

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
• Debug existing software and correct defects
• Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
• Write or review software and system documentation
• Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on a project
• Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces and queries
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
• Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, conferring with users or system engineers, analyzing system flow, data usage, and work processes, and investigating problem areas
• Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, or improve performance
• Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints, and perform quality control on team products
• Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on the project
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces
• Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met

QUALIFICATIONS Candidates must possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university and fourteen (14) years of experience as a Software Engineer on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity. In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, four (4) additional years of Software Engineering experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted.

Additional Requirements:

• Seven years of experience maintaining and improving build and deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools, including automated testing integration such as SonarQube, automated deployments and failure rollbacks, and Kubernetes-based deployments
• Seven years of experience supporting programs that use an Agile development methodology
• Seven years of experience working with container images and platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenShift
• Seven years of experience maintaining operational environments and using monitoring tools and dashboards such as Kibana, Grafana, and Nagios
• Seven years of experience administering development and staging environments
• Seven years of experience working with Python, Bash, and Shell scripting