Software Engineer, Senior - Secret

DCS Corp has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer providing support for PEO Digital.

Ideally, this individual has experience in facilitation and communication, and opts for simplicity. They should value and be able to articulate the importance of focusing on outcomes over outputs, from strategy to implementation.

This is a full-time position located at Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA.

• 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.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience in the DoD setting.
• An adjudicated DoD Secret Security clearance on the First Day of employment.
• Previous work developing and maintaining high-availability business systems.
• Knowledge of Helm charts.
• Experience using Gitlab for version control, CI/CD, and project management.
• Python and shell scripting.
• 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, and the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of software, including familiarity with software Verification and Validation processes. Must have personnel with Information Assurance Technical (IAT) level two (2) certification per DoD 8570.01-M, 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, as well as knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, documentation development and configuration management principles.

• 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.

Salary Range
: $87,934-$120,000

At DCS, we pride ourselves on providing flexibility that allows employees to balance meaningful work with their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits, and opportunities for learning and development.

Our broad and competitive mix of benefits is designed to support and protect employees and their families. Our robust benefit offerings include medical, dental, 401k, ESOP, PTO, education reimbursement, work/life balance, parental and other leave programs.

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