Software Engineering Lead

at  Leidos

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.

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

• 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.