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DCS Corp · 1 month ago

Applications Software Engineer, Junior - Secret

Oklahoma City, OK

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry Level

2+ years exp

DCS Corp has an exciting opportunity for a Junior Software Engineer providing support to the HB PEO Digital. The role involves collaborating with engineers to tackle technical challenges, advocate for modern technical approaches, and define engineering standards while working on various applications aligned with the organization's vision.

AerospaceManagement ConsultingNational Security

Culture & Values

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

You will pair with engineers to identify solutions to technical challenges

You will collaborate with the Portfolio Leadership team on how best to achieve WingC2’s CMG OKRs and portfolio goals

You will tackle cross-cutting engineering concerns; fostering an environment for engineers across the organization to collaborate on solutions

You will find opportunities for automation wherever possible and push teams to invest

You will advocate for development and implementation of modern, improved technical approaches; fostering a continuous improvement mindset with our engineering staff

Understand problem spaces of several applications and programs (group of projects), aligned with the organization's vision and mission

Superb communication skills are essential for this position, alignment with all players is often necessary

Breaking down requirements, creating plans and executing them are mandatory skills

Architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact

Working with resources at your disposal, identifying areas of opportunity; weak points and correcting them, including external contracting companies that are partners with the Air Force outsourcing development services

Modernization is not only for hardware, off the shelf software or building in-house software, but also reshaping and upholding agile practices, step by step, and challenging bureaucracy and old waterfall methodologies

You will define engineering standards and best practices, fostering a continuous improvement mindset with our engineering staff

You don’t mind working in older systems and technologies, even though the target is to re-architect, rebuild, virtualize and refresh them

Qualification

PythonGitlabSoftware Development LifecycleInformation Assurance IAT Level 2Multi-system InteroperabilityShell ScriptingHigh-availability SystemsAgile PracticesCommunication SkillsProblem Solving

Required

U.S. Citizenship is required

Bachelors Degree with 2 years of experience in a DoD setting

An adjudicated DoD Secret Security clearance on the First Day of employment

Employee will work on the Enterprise Software team that deploys, monitors, and manages commercial off the shelf and free open source software via our AWS instances

Skills required include previous work developing and maintaining high-availability business systems

Experience using Gitlab for version control, CI/CD, and project management is desired

Python and shell scripting desired

Candidates should have experience with multi-system interoperability and integration, experience with classified systems and the challenges they present for interoperability and fielding

Experience with Information Technology (IT) systems, as well as the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of software, including familiarity with software Verification and Validation processes

The Contractor shall ensure personnel have credentialing that meet Information Assurance Technical (IAT) level two (2) certification for performance of this work, as outlined in DoD 8570.01-M, Information Assurance Workforce Improvement Program, Table AP3.T2

Experience in full software development lifecycle from conception to include architecture definition, detailed design, embedded software, scoping, planning, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery and sustainment as applied to DoD systems

Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, documentation development and principles of configuration management

Preferred

Familiarity with Electronic Warfare and/or Air Combat operations including live aircrew training/development of tactics, techniques, and procedures and Range Infrastructure architectures and systems

Experience with development of networked protocols in both Windows and Linux operating systems