Software Engineer / Integrator - Leidos

Description

Seeking a software engineer to perform as one of the primary resources in the development and integration of cross domain security solutions in a small team environment. Primary responsibilities include Development, Leadership, Production support, and Innovation.  

Development responsibilities will include developing data flows for a cross domain system.  This requires not only an understanding of development, but how the developed code functions across a Linux based system.  Candidates will need to apply a diverse skillset in software engineering, system engineering & administration, integration, test, and system security. Customers often come to our unit with a goal in mind, but they need our help to realize it.  As such, candidates should be able to analyze requirements to ensure overall testability, and then develop appropriate software design, test plans, and procedures. Since we are a small team, candidates should also be able to assist in the execution of functional, performance, and security tests and support debug of system issues. The ideal candidate will be a strong team player who can lead in technical tasks and mentor/direct team members on identification, prioritization, and innovation.

Leadership support also includes advising during Agile scrum planning by identifying areas of technical need and breaking down tasks to features, user stories, and point estimates.  

While a separate part of the team does oversee maintenance activities, candidates may be called upon to review existing programs and assist in making refinements to aid in reducing operating time and/or improving current development methods.  Developers support our Operations and Maintenance (O&M) team when needed in production by working closely with network and system administration teams to identify/troubleshoot issues.  This includes connection issues and other errors with the help of log files for both file transfer data flows (based largely on developed code) and web service flows (REST/SOAP/WSDL).  

Finally, continuous improvement and innovation is desired by all team members, especially the senior members.  This includes ideas to improve development and production environment efficiencies by introducing new technologies, process, and procedures. Engineers also participate with hands on selection, configuration, and upgrading software/tools as needed in regular development and the production environment.

Primary Responsibilities:
Senior developers are responsible for overseeing the development of new data flows, the maintenance of data flows in production, and designing system improvements.  Specifically, tasks include:
•Coordinate and gather requirements, design, develop, and document pre and post processing of customer data implementing established framework built on Apache Nifi (Niagra Falls) application software in support of existing and new customer data flows. 
•Assist in providing architecture and design work as well as hands-on lab integration and test in a Research & Development environment.
•Provide expert, independent systems engineering services and leadership in specialized technical areas.
•Coordinates with contractor and Government management to ensure that the task have been properly defined and that proposed solution(s) meet Government requirements.
•Participate in program standup meetings to discuss system status, technical issues, or coordinate production system changes.

Basic Qualifications:
•Experience in Java application development and integration
•Capable of reading and/or learning Bash or PowerShell scripting
•Experience using SSH and setting up SSH permissions
•Working knowledge and development experience in a virtual (ex. VMWare) Linux (ex. RHEL/CentOS) environment
•Demonstrated ability to plan, design, develop, test, implement, integrate, and troubleshoot applications (small to medium size development) in a Linux (RHEL, CentOS) environment. 
Communications & Management Skills: 
•Possess excellent oral and written communication skills to make team members aware of issues and ideas to stake holders
•Experience creating operating instructions and technical engineering documents 
•Ability to document designs including creation of diagrams
•Ability to work closely with customers and management to track progress on proactive problem solving and tracking progress
Education and Experience:
•7+ years of relevant experience (5+ years with a BS, 4+ with a MS)

Preferred Qualifications:
•Prior experience in NiFi data flow design and development OR experience with similar ETL tools
•Familiarity with web services SOAP/REST
•Experience with Apache web server configuration and performance tuning.
•Familiarity with XML/JSON
•Experience with web front-end development skills:  HTML/JS/TypeScript/Reacts/Angular 
•Forcepoint Guard Experience: Trusted Gateway System (TGS), Trusted Thin Client (TTC), WebShield, and High Speed Guard (HSG)  
•Lockheed Martin Guard Experience: Radiant Mercury Guard (RMG) 
•Knowledge or use of various security products, security architecture, security assessment tools, and information assurance standards. 
•Migrate VMWare technologies to Docker/Containerization
•IBM Data Power experience
•Security Scanners, Splunk data aggregation/analysis tools               
•System integration experience with physical/virtual server environment and associated networking.
•Integrating with typical IT support infrastructure services: LDAP, Active Directory, log archive 
•Knowledge or use of various security products, security architecture, security assessment tools, and information assurance standards. 
•Familiarity with Network Security, Routers, and Switches and how it relates to the data flows.
•Use of standard project management techniques that includes Agile and standard project management methodologies 

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.