Lead Software Engineer – Secure Networks and Protocols

Boeing•Tukwila, WA

21h•Onsite

About The Position

The Boeing Company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer – Secure Networks and Protocols to join their team in Tukwila, Washington. This role involves overseeing the design, development, architecture, and maintenance of software solutions for network stack protocol software, which is used for securely exchanging data between systems. The successful candidate will collaborate with stakeholders to identify and review product security requirements. Key responsibilities include overseeing performance analysis, testing, monitoring, and software assessments of networking protocol software to identify and address risks, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities. The position also requires providing consultation on secure network and protocols throughout the entire software product development lifecycle, overseeing research and implementation of current and emerging networking protocols, software security trends, vulnerabilities, and technologies, and managing software project management activities and software supplier functions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
Ability to obtain a U.S. Secret Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship.
Ability to obtain Secret U.S. Security clearance. Interim Pre-Start and Final Post Start
10+ years experience with deploying, securing, and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems
Experience in configuration and maintenance of network switches and other networking appliances
8+ years experience with network security including designing, creating, and maintaining the security systems within an organization’s IT network, including the computer systems and data

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 14+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 18+ years of directly related work experience OR 22+ years of related, relevant experience
Master of Science or PhD (STEM)
5+ years experience with Kubernetes and software containerization
Knowledge and use of multiple networking protocols (e.g. tcp, udp, multicast, nat, and spanning tree)
High availability storage system design and implementation (e.g. RAID and Cluster systems)
Installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Microsoft Windows Desktop and Server

Responsibilities

Oversees the design, development, architecture and maintenance of software solutions for network stack protocol software used to securely exchange data between systems
Partners with stakeholders by providing consultation on the identification and review of product security requirements
Oversees performance analysis, testing, monitoring and software assessments of networking protocol software to assess, identify and address risks, weaknesses and vulnerabilities
Provides consultation on secure network and protocols throughout the end-to-end lifecycle development of software products
Oversees research and implementation of current and emerging networking protocols, software security trends, vulnerabilities, and technologies
Oversees software project management activities and software supplier management functions