Software Developer (Springfield, VA)

About the role

Join Life Cycle Engineering. Lead with purpose. Own the outcome. Do the right thing the right way.

Why Choose LCE?

• Employee Ownership (ESOP): Build financial stake in your work. Our 100% employee-owned model directly connects your contributions to company performance and long-term wealth creation.
• Award-Winning Culture: Join an organization repeatedly recognized as a "Best Place to Work" driven by integrity, mutual respect, and a supportive team environment.
• Impactful Mission: Support defense operations, waterfront engineering, cyber infrastructure, and asset reliability programs that keep fleets and operations mission ready.

Join LCE where you will provide software development support to our National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) customer. You will develop, create, maintain, and write/code new (or modify existing) computer applications, software, or specialized utility programs.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain development environment in support of SWAP tool development and maintenance.
• Provide database design for development and maintenance of SWAP.
• Provide web application design, development and maintenance for SWAP.
• Develop and provide web/portal development environment administration in support of SWAP and request approval for software download, installation, and configuration on the development team workstations.
• Deliver and sustain SWAP tool features that are identified during program increment-planning events.
• Deploy automated application security testing tools and make users aware of how to make the most of application security features.
• Support efforts to integrate software assurance tools into automated testing/automated pipeline methodologies.
• Evaluate commercial products for use and integration into the agency's software assurance.
• Assist in development of policies and guidance regarding software assurance.
• Support automated evaluation tools as they pertain to software assurance.
• Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan development of new application or modification of existing application.
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Apply coding and testing standards, apply security testing tools including "fuzzing" static-analysis code scanning tools, and conduct code reviews.
• Apply secure code documentation.
• Capture security controls used during requirements phase to integrate security within process to identify key security objectives and to maximize software security while minimizing disruption to plans and schedules.
• Consult with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software.
• Correct errors by making appropriate changes and rechecking program to ensure desired results produced.
• Identify security implications and apply methodologies within centralized and decentralized environments across enterprise computer systems in software development.
• Identify security issues around steady state operation and management of software and incorporate security measures that must be taken when product reaches end of life.
• Perform secure programming and identify potential flaws in codes to mitigate vulnerabilities.

Security Clearance Requirements

• U.S. citizenship
• Active U.S. DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in technical discipline
• IAT Lvl 2 compliant certification (e.g., Security+) for intermediate level or IAM Lvl 2 (e.g., Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)) for senior level
• Skill in conducting vulnerability scans and recognizing vulnerabilities in security systems.
• Skill in creating and utilizing mathematical or statistical models.
• Skill in creating programs that validate and process multiple inputs including command line arguments, environmental variables, and input streams.
• Skill in designing countermeasures to identify security risks. S0031: Skill in developing and applying security system access controls.
• Skill in discerning protection needs (i.e., security controls) of information systems and networks.
• Skill in writing code in currently supported programming language (e.g., Java, C++).