Applications Engineer III

BTS Software Solutions is seeking an Applications Engineer III with an active TS/SCI w/ POLY to join our team in Ft. Meade, MD.

Responsibilities

• Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manage their implementation.
• Manage software development and support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques, and Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools.
• Estimate software development costs and schedule.
• Review existing programs and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improving current techniques.
• Formulate and define specifications for software applications or modify and maintain existing applications using engineering releases and utilities from the manufacturer.
• Responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Instruct, direct, and check the work of other task personnel.
• Responsible for quality assurance review and the evaluation of existing and new software products.
• Analyze any newly identified vulnerabilities and deficiencies within the IC GovCloud security tool suite; perform gap analysis.
• Research and evaluate commercial products capable of eliminating vulnerabilities or deficiencies within the security tool suite at the direction of the Government.
• Conduct analysis of alternatives and present findings in a Technical Analysis package for Government evaluation and selection of a solution.
• Collaborate and coordinate with ancillary organizations to procure, deliver, dispose, and track new hardware/software required for solution implementation.
• Prepare Configuration Plans, software enhancement plans, and engineer solutions to interface with GUI and/or web front-end interfaces.
• Define, design, and incorporate interfaces to retrieve data from various scanning tools.
• Design, validate, and implement access controls as part of systems and service solutions.
• Enhance, modify, and test COTS/GOTS and applicable hardware to ensure interoperability and compatibility with existing IC GovCloud architecture; prepare Engineering Change Proposals for any implemented system configuration change.
• Define, coordinate, and schedule testing, integration, implementation, and deployment activities with dependent external interface devices/owners.
• Deploy security solutions across the IC GovCloud; install hardware and implement required software to ensure a fully functional computer environment.
• Prepare and conduct security tool instruction/training regarding newly deployed tool capabilities and functions for authorized users of the IC GovCloud security tool suite upon Government direction.
• Continuously monitor the health and status of security tool suites through IT system management.
• Maintain, upgrade, refresh, and update systems to maintain full operational capacity.
• Conduct database administration to monitor, report, and repair any degradation of the health and status of systems and tools within the NISIRT.

Requirements

• Fifteen (15) years of experience in computer science or software engineering disciplines in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional software engineering experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

About BTS Software Solutions

BTS Software Solutions is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business who are community-focused innovators transforming ideas into technology to serve people. We recognize that innovation is only valuable when applied towards a needed solution. Technology has no value without the hard work to turn ideas into reality. Our roots are in helping save Soldiers’ lives through technology. We bring that ethos to serving our community. We create solutions that touch people's lives—products to communicate, connect companies with customers, stay informed, save lives, and enhance lives.

We have a small company persona with large company ethos and capabilities; we create elegant solutions for complex problems that enrich people’s lives.

Benefits

• 100% company-paid health benefits
• Paid time off (PTO)
• 401K matching and vested from day one of employment