Senior Cloud Software Engineer

at  KBR

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• The candidate must have previous 3 years US residency
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
• 4+ years experience with Python
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Knowledge of software engineering methodology
• Relational database experience, Postgres is a plus
• Unix/Linux experience
• Experience with change management tools such as Git, GitHub, or GitLab

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Master’s degree in degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• Image processing experience
• 4+ years experience with C/C++
• Experience with AWS Cloud Service especially S3, EC2, EKS, ECR, and Lambda
• Experience with K8s, Docker, and containerization
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with Terraform and Cloudformation
  Candidates must have strong technical abilities, excellent communication skills, and a teamwork emphasis. Candidates must also be able to integrate into a highly-skilled Information Technology Team.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Three years of continuous residency in the US for issuance of a Government Security credential
• The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a national agency check and background investigation after hire to obtain a badge for government facility access and user accounts.

KBR PARTNERS WITH SEVERAL OTHER COMPANIES TO FULFILL ITS REQUIREMENTS AS A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR. THE SELECTED SUBCONTRACTING COMPANIES ALIGN THEIR BENEFITS AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE TO THOSE OF KBR.

KBR Benefits
KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.
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The Senior Cloud Software Engineer is responsible for all aspects of designing, developing, and maintaining software products throughout the development lifecycle on the Landsat project. Responsibilities include:

• Design and Develop software components in the cloud to perform processing, archival, and distribution of Landsat products
• Communicate and coordinate activities and technical status with the Systems Engineer, Software Engineers, and other Project team members, as appropriate
• Analyze and interpret technical data using statistical and mathematical methods and techniques
• Ensure all software activities are conducted in accordance with the Software Development Life Cycle
• Analyze system and user requirements to define software requirements
• Identify software design and development tasks and provide an estimate for the work
• Perform and document preliminary and detailed design of components making up a software product
• Develop and conduct unit, functional, and regression testing
• Document the testing effort through generation of test plans, procedures, and reports
• Respond to and resolve software discrepancies against documented requirements
• Lead code peer reviews
• Develop and update software pipelines to build, test, and deliver software components
• Develop infrastructure as code to perform software deployments

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
Experience: 8+ years of related experience in a Software Engineering environment is desired. Experience with data ingest, image processing, satellite ground systems and/or cloud computing are a plus.