Software Engineering Lead - Remote, United States - Leidos

Description

Description

Leidos is presently seeking a Software Engineering Lead in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency GSMO-II Program. The selected candidate will be a key member of the Special Projects Innovations team, working hands-on with a team of software engineers, and will provide technical expertise in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevOps and Software Configuration Management in support of the automated and rapid delivery of innovative solutions to a cloud-based environment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Technical leadership of a team of Software and Test Engineers.
• Create and maintain the DevOps platform strategic roadmap, for continual process improvement.
• Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor, and mitigate technical risks.
• Communicate and collaborate frequently with other leads to ensure successful completion of project objectives.
• Lead software release version control, providing release management support throughout a software product's life cycle (initial software development through promotion to Test, QA and Production Environments), ensuring the consistency and reliability of software builds.
• Provide software configuration management for parallel software development and release cycles on a large, distributed development network, ensuring the consistency and reliability of software builds.
• Provide technical direction, leadership, guidance, and training on software engineering processes, ensuring congruence of the various infrastructure, software, configurations, and interfaces maintained under configuration control.
• Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Cloudbees/Jenkins, Artifactory, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket.
• Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools.
• Design, develop, document, test and deploy software written in Python, JavaScript, Java and SQL.
• Deploy, configure, test, troubleshoot, maintain, update/upgrade of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments.
• Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team, communicating and collaborating frequently with teammates to ensure successful completion of project objectives.
• Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure, and system issues.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical discipline and 12+ of related experience; additional related years of experience are accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Prior software engineering technical leadership experience in an Agile software development environment.
• Full software lifecycle experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.
• Previous software configuration management experience, including release planning, managing software baselines, merging branches, and producing software builds.
• Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership.
• Ability to multi-task, self-assign work, and lead a geographically distributed team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and attention to detail, including excellent organizational and documentation skills.
• Experience working in a geographically dispersed environment.
• Previous experience tracking projects in Jira or equivalent Agile Project Management software.
• Knowledge of Site Reliability principles and integration of these principles within an operational environment.
• Experience with software development languages such as Java, Python and JavaScript.
• Ability to obtain Interim Secret DoD security clearance prior to start date.
• Ability to obtain Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8140/8570 IAT II certification within 14 days of start date.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing, developing, and deploying software in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
• Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker (OpenShift experience is a plus).
• Hands-on full-SDLC Agile Software Development experience, including full software lifecycle automation experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).
• Experience configuring, developing, and deploying on the Elastic Stack (ELK) and Kafka platforms.
• Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards and updating applications and code to meet security scans and security implementation guidelines (e.g. STIGs).
• Experience developing software on a Linux platform (RHEL 8), including experience working in a UNIX command line environment.
• Experience on software integration projects that include Java programing, including SOAP and REST web services development.
• Experience with distributed version control software, such as Git, and experience with development workflows in Bitbucket or an equivalent tool
• Experience designing and building automated software testing pipelines using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools.
• Software requirements analysis and design documentation experience, including the creation of functional, technical, and architectural design artifacts as well as test cases and installation, deployment, and configuration documentation.
• Experience with Atlassian tools, including Bitbucket integrations with JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience integrating code review systems into the SCM process.
• Experience with static code analysis, particularly security scans.
• Experience leading code, document, and other artifact reviews

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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