Advanced Software Engineer (Job ID:4569)

Valkyrie • Huntsville, AL

18h • Onsite

About The Position

In this role you will support the Missile Defense Agency Next Generation Software Office to accelerate and modernize the development, integration, and delivery of resilient and secure Missile Defense System software. Provide technical and engineering analysis to support development of on-demand and cloud-based software for system-of-systems development, integration, and testing. Design, development, and management of software libraries and Cloud-based software architectures and requirements.

Requirements

• Must have a Master’s degree in a STEM field with at least 12+ years working on missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD program/project.
• Must have experience in hardware in the loop and cloud-based testing to support software development and delivery.
• Must have experience in management and review of application programming interfaces and interface control documents and enabling software utilized in Cloud-based and HWIL environments.
• Must have experience in artificial intelligence development and tooling and agentic operations.
• Must have the ability to work independently, as a team member, or leading teams/ tasks, applying engineering rigor to solve engineering/ scientific problems.
• Must have an Active or Interim Secret clearance and the ability to maintain it.

Nice To Haves

• Practical experience with software containerization concepts (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure) and migrating legacy enterprise applications to cloud-native architectures, preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile and Lean software development principles, particularly within a secure DoW DevSecOps framework, preferred.
• Knowledge or direct experience deploying IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) to establish reproducible, auditable, and secure cloud environments, preferred.
• Experience using modern configuration management and version control platforms (e.g., Git) to enforce policy-as-code, baseline management, and compliance configurations, preferred.
• Top secret clearance or the ability to obtain, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and engineering analysis to support development of on-demand and cloud-based software for system-of-systems development, integration, and testing
• Design, development, and management of software libraries and Cloud-based software architectures and requirements

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision options
• company paid life and disability insurances
• 401k with match
• education reimbursement
• company paid holidays
• paid time off (PTO)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior