Sigma Defense is seeking a SeniorSoftware Developer/Engineer to fulfill the on-site requirements at our customer location in Crystal City, VA.
This position will support a broad range of engineering and testing support for a Maritime unmanned vehicle program. The scope of the project encompasses software development, software web interface development, software integration, software configuration management, maintenance of software continuous integration environments, software containerization, development of data analysis scripts in support of evaluation of autonomous system performance, and system engineering and analysis in support of evaluation of autonomous system performance.
This position will entail both technical and team leadership responsibilities and require customer reporting duties.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled: Sigma Defense Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Requirements
- At minimum 5 years of experience with a Master's Degree or 7 years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree in research, design, development, debugging, and testing of computer and network software of specialized utility programs which may include database maintenance within an application area.
- Shall have experience applying programming concepts in a professional or academic setting, and notable experience with applying modern software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevSecOps/DevOps) in a professional or academic setting.
- Should be capable of working independently or collaboratively on moderately complex software solutions with reviews for accuracy or solutions in alignment with project goals and specific functional requirements.
Candidate Differentiators:
- CSEP and or MBSE certifications.
Personnel Clearance Level:
- Candidate must possess an active, DoD issued Secret security clearance.
- A clearance will be sponsored for the right candidate.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering or Mathematics (Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems).
Essential Job Duties (not all inclusive):
- Assist in on-going implementation of the Agile Development methodology. Support all efforts to remove impediments of the engineering team to ensure on time delivery and completion of sprints and deliverables (A003).
- Participate and assist with on-going implementation of DevSecOps.
- Support development cycles with security as an integral part of the process.
- Support and participate in continuous integration and continuous delivery efforts.
- Support the development, design, and architecture recommendations for current and future PEO C4I Software (SW) and hardware (HW) baselines.
- Support design solutions integrated into any common network/hardware baseline or environment.
- Support process and engineering improvement initiatives such as Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and retrospectives.
- Support the creation of systems engineering plan to describe the program's overall technical design and approach including process, resources, metrics, risks, and associated risk mitigation plan (CDRL A003).
- Develop and provide inputs to functional, allocated, and product baseline engineering documentation (CDRL A003), design-related technical briefs (CDRL A003).
- Work with Information Assurance (IA)/Security Engineer to ensure design decisions do not change or impact IA/security posture of the capability or system.
- Document the approach in a Software Development Plan (SDP) (CDRL A007). Ensure the SDP meets the criteria specified in the CDRL DD1423 using IEEE Std 12207:2017 (E) and the PWS, engineering and technical development of current and future system baselines.
- Implement Agile development methodology and participate in planning activities using PO directed Agile tools.
- Support or participate in Agile frameworks at scale such the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Implement DevSecOps principles and related technologies using PO directed tools such as Git, PowerShell, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Windows and Linux server administration, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Services, cloud storage, REST (Representational State Transfer) application progr