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KBR

Senior Software Engineer

KBR, Chantilly, Virginia, United States, 22021


Title:

Senior Software Engineer

KBR is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. The candidate will leverage their extensive software engineering experience and skillsets to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to a US Government customer, supporting FFRDC, and other KBR members in a professional work environment.

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

Minimum Qualifications:

Active TS//SCI with CI 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

Desired Qualifications:

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

Security Requirements: Must have an active TS-SCI with a current CI Polygraph

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.