Principal Software Systems Engineer - Security Clearance Required

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Department Summary :

The Software Engineering & Computing Department (SWEC) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with a desire to work on innovative advanced approaches and technologies to solve our sponsors’ most critical technological problems.

In this role you will provide technical leadership in full-life cycle and hands-on support to critical sponsor problems in Software Engineering.

In addition, you will have an opportunity to work in many different sponsor domains with a wide variety of software engineering and information technology applications, protypes and systems.

Roles & Responsibilities :

Do you want to make the world safer by applying your software engineering skills? At MITRE, work as a trusted advisor to provide thought leadership and problem-solving skills to the government to deliver needed capabilities to address the world's most difficult problems.

Specific responsibilities will include :

• Play a trusted role as a technical leader in helping government sponsors apply life-cycle software engineering methodologies and software development technologies to mission critical systems.
• Design technical projects utilizing software engineering skills to help sponsors to integrate, scale, consolidate and modernize software systems for solving national security problems.
• Lead teams that provide technical advice and solutions to fully integrate software engineering technologies and tools in the sponsors environments.
• Provide technical expertise to design, prototype and maintain environments from end-to-end deployment
• Serve as project leader, task leader or subject matter expert on projects with supported government organizations related to security, architecture, and engineering support
• Conduct analysis of current government and support contractor implementations of software engineering efforts
• Collaborate with MITRE experts in software engineering knowledge management, research, and other efforts to grow MITRE’s body of knowledge in software engineering capabilities and disciplines.

Basic Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or similar field and 10 + years applicable experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.
• Documented success in defining and leading projects or programs greater than themselves with experience in both task leadership and management.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Experience (architectural and / or hands-on) with one or more commercial cloud offerings (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc).
• Practical application of release, sprint planning, and backlog management with related agile tools (e.g., VersionOne, JIRA).
• Expertise in agile software delivery (e.g., Scrum, XP).
• Fluent in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, C++ or C#).
• Candidate understands full software development life cycle and is fully responsible for delivery including definition, completion, and technical quality.
• The position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications :

• Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance.
• Master’s degree in computer science or Software Engineering or similar field
• Experience in software design and implementation in federal and commercial domains
• Experience or expertise in 3 or more of the following areas :
• Experience with continuous software integration and deployment
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with DevOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Chef, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Terraform, Gitlab).
• Familiarity with enterprise-level models of agile development (e.g., SAFE)
• Experience with containerization platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s) :

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s) :

Secret

Work Location Type : Hybrid

Hybrid

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