Software Engineer, SR

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Software Engineer, SR

Software Engineer - Senior

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KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

This position is contingent upon contract award

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform all activities associated with the design, development, implementation, maintenance, configuration management and quality control of software for scientific/engineering applications 

• Define system and software requirements and obtain customer approval 

• Analyze customer requirements and translate them into a design 

• Create prototypes 

• Implement Agile development tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket/Git to manage work and collaborate with your teams.

• Identify potential roadblocks and develop software solutions where the solution is not always well defined.

• Work to improve performance metrics through critical planning and execution of development tasks.

• Respond to and resolves software discrepancies against documented requirements 

• Collaborate with a team to define software requirements 

• Generate program design language and code based on department standards 

• Design, develop, test, and deploy software systems for our customers 

• Determine software maintainability and overall adherence to user requirements on department standards 

• Generate/update documents defining software product baselines 

• Explore new areas or program in new languages to deliver a complete product 

• Support on-site meetings and deliveries to customers 

• Lead junior engineers 

• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications Required:

• Active TS//SCI with Polygraph

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline 

• Minimum of 12 years of software development, object-oriented design, and programming, including architecture design, coding, and testing experience 

• Experience with Web Services and JavaScript (e.g., ReactJS) 

• Container based application development experience 

• Must possess a DoD 8570 Certification for IAT Level II or higher

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills 

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team to achieve customer and company goals 

• Supervisory experience for a team of engineers 

• DevOps Engineer (with >10 years of experience in configuration control, testing, security, automation, containerization, orchestration, and cloud services open-source technologies) 

• Hands-on experience with Java, C/C++, and/or Python 

Qualifications Desired:

• Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

• Experience with Postgres and MySQL, MongoDB 

• Experience with AWS and Azure  

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes,  

• Experience with Fortify, CodeDx, Trellix 

• Familiarity with Agile and/or DevSecOps procedures 

• Contractor Product Owner (with >10 years of experience in software management and managing a backlog of requirements) 

• Experience with Neural Networks/Machine Learning 

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