Software Engineer, DevOps

Overview

Would you like to perform rewarding work while contributing to the success of an established, growing company? Navstar is an award-winning organization that has a proven track record of successfully providing IT services and solutions both as a prime and sub-contractor on mission-focused IT programs. Our employees are integral players in support of mission-critical programs focused on our National Security.

Navstar is looking for a Software Engineer to join a high performing agile team using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to support a nationally significant and fast-paced program. Program execution follows DEVOPS best practices and employs robust development, test, and production environments. Additionally, the program is using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and test automation tools alongside a full suite of team collaboration tools.

This new program is focused on injecting new technology and adding advanced capabilities over the coming three years while continuing to support an on-going mission and operational system.

The Software Engineer will perform software development activities as a member of an agile development team. Development includes the full range of turning agile stories into implementable concepts, through development, testing and deployment of the new capabilities in this complex system. Following the BDD pattern, our developers are responsible for implementing robust testing leveraging DEVOPS automation and, where appropriate, use of test automation commercial tools.

There are a range of opportunities for server-side business logic implementation as well as client web application and user interface (UI) development. Java, Python, embedded C/C++, Java cryptographic framework, XML, web UI and special purpose device programming opportunities are available.

Not explicitly separated into a dedicated "Responsibilities" section in the original, but the following describes the development activities and responsibilities:

- Participate in an agile development team and program increment planning.

- Analyze and study complex system requirements, use design tools, and apply accepted design techniques with CASE tools.

- Develop, test, and deploy new capabilities in the system, following BDD and DEVOPS practices.

- Implement robust testing and leverage test automation tools where appropriate.

- Contribute to server-side business logic as well as client web UI development.

The Software Engineer will be responsible for software development activities both individually and as a member of an agile team. The individual will analyze requirements, use design tools, provide support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and other accepted design techniques with CASE tools, and apply sound software engineering principles to ensure code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, fault tolerant, and reusable.

The candidate will provide software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development process, promote code reuse and cross-program collaboration, and help reduce maintenance costs by creating common functions for developers and testers. The individual will engineer, author, tune and document automation scripts in a development environment and deploy to the test/production bench.

• To be eligible for this position you must hold an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Must have demonstrated experience with Java.
• Experience or familiarity with multiple the following:
  Java/JEE, Python, C/C++, SQL, SOAP, WSDL, WADL, PERL, Power Shell, VBS, Eclipse, Postgres, Oracle, Jenkins.
• Experience with Web Application User Interface Development, knowledge of databases and structures, and/or experience working with JSON, HTML, XML, XSLT.
• Experience with technologies underlying cryptographic systems (symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, ASN.
  1 encoding, XML canonicalization, digital signatures).
• Experience developing on Windows, and/or Linux operating systems.
• Must have documented professional experience with web services.
• Must have a strong understanding of sound software development…