Software Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Science Systems And Applications, Inc
Location: Fort Meade, SD 57741
Description:
SSAI seeks a Software Engineer to support a program located in Annapolis Junction, MD. This is a position within a product development team. The candidate will have a primary focus on supporting all aspects of agile software design and development, to include development of new capabilities, testing, optimization and performance tuning, operation, and sustainment functions. This role has an expectation for after-hours / on-call support.
Additional responsibilities include the following:
Required Qualifications:
Desired Qualifications:
EOE, including disability/vets
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Additional responsibilities include the following:
- Provide technical support and troubleshoot issues as they arise
- Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in Unix development and C programming
- Optimize code for maximum speed and scalability
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
- Design, develop and maintain software applications in C for Unix based systems
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in a computer related field or equivalent combination of education or experience. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
- Minimum of 20 years' experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, and complexity.
- Java programming for distributed systems, with experience in networking and multi-threading
- Agile development experience
- NoSQL - MongoDB, or equivalent
- Containerization - Docker, Kubernetes/K8s
- Well-grounded in Linux fundamentals and knowledge in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
- Implementing REST APIs
- Developing applications in Spring framework
- Experience with source code management practices and tools
- Enabling tools: Git, Maven, Jira
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Testing: Bamboo, Jenkins, GitLab Cl/Pipelines
- Continuous Monitoring: ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana), Nagios
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with current polygraph required.
Desired Qualifications:
- Apache Hadoop
- Apache Accumulo
- Apache NiFi
EOE, including disability/vets
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.