Software Engineer

Leidos

49d•$87,100 - $157,450•Remote

About The Position

The Digital Modernization Group at Leidos currently has an opening for a full-time telework Software Engineer position. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS) program. This program supports large HR data systems for our customer, the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). The role will support sustainment and development activities for multiple systems running across multiple platforms and environments. This will include following a continuous software development life cycle and applying agile methodologies to quickly meet stakeholder needs. This will include daily scrums and weekly rhythms to facilitate fixes and information gathering as well as ongoing collaboration with other parts of DMDC. The role will be working on several small Leidos teams with embedded DMDC employees and will regularly interface with a large number of external government stakeholders across the DMDC enterprise. Work will include application and database changes, code and unit testing, cyber remediations, audit support, technical inquiries, architectural exchanges, documentation updates, system triage, and ad hoc requests from users and DMDC. The candidate should expect a dynamic work environment with new priorities and processes each week. We want someone who already has the qualifications and expertise to support the team immediately. This position will report to the DCPDS Application Support Manager.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree with 6 years of prior relevant experience or Masters degree with 4 years of experience
Active investigation (Tier 5) in order to be adjudicated to the IT-I level Position of Trust
Active Security+ certification
Proficiency with .NET Framework, VB.NET, C#, ColdFusion, SQL Server, and JavaScript
Familiar with MVC, Entity Management Framework, Razor pages, jQuery, and other JavaScript libraries
Familiar with secure coding best practices
Familiar with Dev tools like SharePoint, QC, Jira, Subversion, and GitLab
Willing to work occasional nights and weekends
Ability to ramp up quickly on new systems
Good communication and collaboration skills
Proven leadership and mentoring abilities
Demonstrated responsiveness and patience when working with stakeholders
Excellent multitasking ability

Nice To Haves

Previous experience supporting ASARS, EPAT, and Wage systems
Previous experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD) agencies
Familiarity with cloud-based technologies like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, etc.
Familiarity with Oracle SQL or similar database languages
Familiarity Agile scrum development processes and tools
Familiarity with full-stack development processes and tools
Familiarity with DevSecOps processes and tools
Come break things (in a good way). Then build them smarter.

Responsibilities

Design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of applications and databases
Ensure uninterrupted day-to-day operations
Perform cybersecurity remediation and bug fixes for the application and underlying software
Perform analysis of software requirements
Support the full software development lifecycle
Support upgrades, patches, and migrations
Troubleshooting operational and development issues
Create and update required documentation
Manage code, database, script, and documentation baselines
Collaborate regularly with teammates, management, and customers
Recommend and follow best practices
Identify and implement efficiencies
Triage support for operational issues

Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision.
That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers.
Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.
More details are available here.

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