Software Engineer

Leidos has a new and exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer in our National Security Sector's (NSS) Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA).  Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more.  Join us and make a difference in National Security!

Job Description

Leidos is seeking a Python Software Developer with strong systems, software, cloud, and Agile experience to support a complex program to provide Agile development and operations and maintenance for critical systems. This role works directly with customers to understand customer needs, elicit requirements, develop a solution to those requirements, then demonstrate solution to customer and iterate on the solution. Based in DevOps framework, direct major deliverables of projects through all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing.

Primary Responsibilities

• Interact with customer to understand pain points and elicit requirements

• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging infrastructure platform services and participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement, using Python, Java, JavaScript, SpringBoot, Hibernate, and Angular.

• Assist with creating innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers, then demonstrate proposed solutions independently to customer, and update solutions based on customer feedback

• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases

• Analyze (though proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs

• Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leveraging GitFlow constructs while supporting the Agile software development lifecycle following Program SAFe practices, using industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting

• Communicate key project data to team members to build team cohesion and effectiveness leveraging Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and applying best practices and standard operating procedures

Basic Qualifications

• Experience using Python, Java, JavaScript and Angular with direct experience eliciting customer requirements

• Experience with independent development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) leveraging cloud data services (ex: S3, RDS, EFS)

• Experience in independently demonstrating developed solutions and updating solution based on customer feedback

• Experience with common Agile practices, service-orientated environments, development practices and the software development lifecycle delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices

• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as Junit, version control systems and issue/problem tracking systems

• Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of prior relevant experience or Master’s degree with 2+ years of prior relevant experience.

• To be considered, candidate must have an active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAFe development practices

At Leidos, the opportunities are boundless. We challenge our staff with interesting assignments that allow them to thrive professionally and personally. For us, helping you grow your career is good business. We look forward to learning more about you – apply today.

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Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: 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.