Software Engineer

Overview

Red Arch Solutions is hiring a Software Engineer to join our program in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Requirements

• MUST HAVE: TS/SCI clearance with active polygraph.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
    • Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
    • Relevant experience must be in engineering systems over their lifecycle (for example, conception, design & development, testing, production, distribution/deployment, operation, maintenance & support, decommissioning)
  • LEVEL 02: Fourteen (14) years of experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required
  • SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE: Developing using the following or comparable software technologies: Java SE, Python, Git, Shell/bash, Nexus, Maven, JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3, JUnit, and IDEs.
  • AGILE EXPERIENCE: Supporting programs using an agile development methodology, delivering a new capability in every Sprint
  • SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE DEVELOPMENT: Experience with containers and container orchestration (e.g., Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift and GitLab CI) is highly desired, including experience with the following: - microservices and microservice orchestration; - experience with CI/CD pipelines; - integration of automated testing tools like SonarQube; - implementing automated deployments/failure rollbacks; - deployment to Kubernetes

  Responsibilities

  • Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
  • Debug existing software and correct defects
  • Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
  • Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
  • Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
  • Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
  • Write or review software and system documentation
  • Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project
  • Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries
  • Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
  • Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components
  • Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance
  • Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design
  • Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
  • Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
  • Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
  • Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met

  Pay

  Salary range for this position: $180,000 - 195,000