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KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.
Why Join Us?
Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.
This is a contingent position based upon contract award.
KBR is seeking a mid-level Software Developers to support government customers in Springfield, VA. The Software Developer provides software development and technical expertise to support and enable a test and evaluation program’s modernization goals. The software engineer will work closely with the scientists and engineers in the image quality domain to identify manual and analytic tasks for automation. Through market research and Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), the Software Developer will propose new epics or additions to existing epics to accomplish automation goals. Task automation services will include code and script generation, code testing, support to code security accreditation, and documenting. In support of the DevOps environment, this role will support decomposing existing business process and test tool capabilities into micro-services capable of deployment through a DevOps infrastructure. Additionally, this role will provide the expertise to effectively analyze the output of DevOps tools and assist the customer in incorporating the results into overall assessments.
Responsibilities:
Conduct engineering analysis to identify all tasks (both manual and analytic) associated with assessment of system capabilities and interfaces, sensor parameters or functions, or GEOINT services.
Conduct engineering analysis to identify candidate tasks for automation.
Conduct market research to identify automation technologies available on the commercial market that align with mission needs.
Automate selected tasks through code/script generation, or by identifying existing in-house or commercially available solutions (including open-source alternatives); identify opportunities to consolidate tasks or processes to maximize efficiency or minimize cost.
Developed tools shall support objectives such as: functionality testing, step automation, continuous integration automation, automated system monitoring, load testing, service virtualization, performance profiling, etc.
Implement accepted automation solutions in the DevTest environment or internal test environment as directed.
Design and develop automation scripts, tools, or applications, and appropriate test scenarios to verify the performance, capacity, and scalability of services and capabilities.
Provide expertise to analyze output of automated test tools, scripts, applications, and processes to evaluate against established criteria and develop a recommendation to the government and product vendor.
Provide expert level support of test automation capable of creating and running scripts within government furnished automation and testing tools (e.g. HP ALM, CA Service virtualization, etc.) development.
Provide web application design, development, and maintenance
for test related web, and tools projects
for Intelligence Community (IC) Common Operating Environment (COE) Test Environment (IC CTE)-related web and tools projects.
Provide support and expertise to develop custom product quality assessment tools for the full range of traditional and non-traditional imaging systems, products, and data formats.
Collaborate with image quality engineers and image scientists to develop custom product quality assessment tools, as well as to understand and support existing in-house developed engineering tools/code written in Matlab, IDL, Python, Visual Basic, etc.; provide updates and improvements to these tools as needed.
Provide technical support and expertise to use, update, and maintain the existing in-house developed image quality test tools and future development.
Provide management, test tool development and technical support to the customers mission support tools.
Analyze performance trends and user experience data to identify parameters for automated governance processes that will facilitate a digital/automated Go/No Go capability.
Develop, implement, and maintain an automated governance process in a variety of environments including: bare metal, DevOps, and cloud computing environments.
Required Education, Experience, & Skills:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Science, Data Science, or other related field.
4 - 7 years of software development experience using one or more object-oriented programming languages such as C++ or Java
Scripting Python, SQL, or similar
Strong verbal and written communications skills are required, as well as the ability to maintain professionalism in a diverse customer environment
Database Administration
ActiveMQ
HTTPD and website maintenance
PKI management and user authentication
Experience with agile development
Security Clearance Requirements: Active TS/SCI with Poly
Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR
At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.
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.
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