Software Engineer Level 2 or 3
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Space Systems Sector is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team in Aurora, CO. This role supports a special program with a scalable and expeditionary intelligence ground station that leverages various sensors to provide targetable data to commanders. The position involves working on an agile development team using modern practices for both new development and operational support. The campus offers programs in all phases of the development and operational lifecycle, utilizing micro-service event-driven architecture with Docker Containers and Kubernetes. The company offers flexibility for career growth, allowing staff to deepen skills or seek new opportunities to broaden their experience.
Requirements
- Level 2: Bachelor’s degree in science with 2+ years of software development experience; 0+ years with a Master's; or 4 additional years of relative experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Level 3: Bachelor’s degree in science with 5+ years of software development experience; 3+ years with a Master's; or 4 additional years of relative experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Current and active Top Secret/SCI security clearance required at time of application.
- Experience designing, developing, and troubleshooting using object-oriented programming (Java).
- Experience with Container Management (Dockers and Docker-Compose) and networking with containers.
- Comfortable using git, including branching, merging, and resolving merge conflicts.
- Experience in Spring, Vue, GIT, Agile, Elasticsearch, and Maven are also required.
- U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with/using Agile Methodology and Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) Tools (Jenkins, Gitlab) and Practices.
- Experience with software system integration, testing, and deployment, including but not limited to automation.
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Quick learning, comfortable with learning new technical concepts and new libraries and APIs.
Responsibilities
- Software development on an agile team using modern development practices.
- Tackling both new development and operational support.
- Working with micro-service event driven architecture using Docker Containers and Kubernetes.
- Designing, developing, and troubleshooting using object-oriented programming (Java).
- Container Management (Dockers and Docker-Compose) and networking with containers.
- Using git, including branching, merging, and resolving merge conflicts.
- Utilizing Spring, Vue, GIT, Agile, Elasticsearch, and Maven.
- Experience with Agile Methodology and Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) Tools (Jenkins, Gitlab) and Practices.
- Software system integration, testing, and deployment, including automation.
- Problem-solving and debugging.
- Learning new technical concepts and new libraries and APIs.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Health insurance coverage.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Savings plan.
- Company paid holidays.
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
- Overtime may be eligible.
- Shift differential may be eligible.
- Discretionary bonus may be eligible.
- Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.
- Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
