Software Engineer, DevOps, Cloud Engineer - Software

Description

Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. Our dedicated Defense Group employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably.

Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

The Non‑Kinetic Effects Business Area, part of the Defense Sector at Leidos, currently has an opening for a cleared Software Engineer to work in our Beavercreek, OH Office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the Air Force Research Lab, Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, and other DoD missions. Your role will be to support our diverse portfolio of programs through a combination of software design and development, hardware interfacing and integration, laboratory experimentation, ground and flight testing to deploy cutting edge, next generation solutions.

• Design, develop and maintain mission‑critical software in support of national defense, and intelligence gathering products for both airborne and ground‑based systems
• Perform the software engineering function, including design, development, testing, troubleshooting and debugging software programs for enhancements and new software‑intensive systems and products; apply appropriate principles, standards, processes, procedures and tools throughout the software development life cycle
• Analyze software requirements, hardware compatibility, and develop software products and tools used for design, development and maintenance of infrastructure and platforms
• Develop technical solutions that require collaboration with internal experts, deep analyses and understanding of impact on end‑product/solution
• Develop solutions to technical problems and issues that are unclear and require deep technical knowledge
• Participate in laboratory, ground and flight testing to validate software
• Document and communicate proposed software solutions with integrated, cross‑functional engineering teams in a fast paced highly technical environment
• Work independently to achieve day‑to‑day objectives with significant impact on operational results or project deliverables
• Responsible for entire projects or processes within a technical area
• Stay up to date on state‑of‑the‑art programming techniques and software technologies
• Participate in software design and code reviews to ensure delivery of quality products and enhance skillsets

• Bachelor's degree and 4‑8 years of prior relevant experience or a Master's degree with 2‑4 years of experience in software engineering, computer engineering or related field
• Experience programming in one or more of the following languages: C++, Java, Python
• Experienced in systems integration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of complex system problems
• Experience working in a SIL environment
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally from informal one‑on‑one discussions or in a small group environment
• Work well within a team and independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to work within a dynamic work environment, handle multiple tasks at once (multi‑task)
• Requires deep understanding of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of technical domain and has broad understanding of other related specialty areas
• Strong desire to grow and learn new technologies
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must have an active DoD Secret level security clearance

• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance
• Familiar with Agile Methodologies, preferably SCRUM or Kanban
• Experience with Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket
• Experience with model and simulation environments to support simulation and test
• Experience with Live and Virtual…