Engineer – Software

All levels of Software Engineer will have the skills listed below. Each level may have additional education, skill and/or experience requirements.

Experience may determine the varying level of position attainable with this position from 1-15 years of experience.

The Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements.

Software Engineering tasks include:

• Design and develop new software.

• Maintain existing software and resolve software problem reports.

• Modify existing software to add new features.

• Perform individually and as part of a team.

• Utilize software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment and in compliance with customer and industry lifecycle development approaches.

• Develop, execute and document software testing, including test cases.

• Perform software requirement analysis, derivation, and allocation.

• Provide input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, application security, and use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development.

• Provide input to hardware (COTS/GOTS/capacity/etc.) recommendations.

• Prepare software documentation, including user guides.

Required skills include:

• Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance required.

• U.S. Citizenship required.

• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following: Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, HTML, C, C++, .NET, ColdFusion, Adobe, etc.

• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with one or more of the following: SQL, Oracle, MySQL, JBDC, etc.

• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with one or more of the following: Windows, Linux, Apache, TomCat, Ozone Widgets, Spring, Struts, JUnit, Hibernate, etc.

Desired skills include:

• Experience with Agile development methodology.

• Experience with software configuration management and control tools (e.g., CVS, Eclipse, ClearCase, etc.)

• Experience with automated testing tools (e.g., RSpec, Cucumber, etc.)

Certifications:

• DoD 8570.1-M Compliance at IAT Level I (e.g., Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)) certification highly desired.