Job Description
The coolest jobs on this planet or any other are with Lockheed Martin Space.
At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our amazing people are on a mission to make a difference in the world by using our outstanding skills and experiences to create, craft and build solutions to some of the world’s most complex engineering problems.
Our culture supports employees to dream big, perform with excellence and create incredible products.
Our Mission
Lockheed Martin has partnered with the United States and its stakeholders. Working collaboratively, we are challenged with finding innovative solutions to provide freedom of operations and protect the interests of the United States in space.
We are developing and evolving software solutions that solve critical emerging needs :
- Generating and simulating operational level plans to explore the art of the possible, how we could defend the ultimate high ground in a future space war
- Dynamically optimizing both terrestrial and space-based sensors to provide comprehensive space domain awareness
- Strategically optimizing the placement and maneuvering of constellations of satellites to satisfy multiple, evolving priorities
Summary of Key Duties for this position :
You will serve as a software developer on an Agile Development Team following core DevSecOps principles to rapidly develop and deliver fully functioning mission capability to end users securely and continuously.
Our team leverages industry standard open-source software solutions such as GitLab, Kubernetes, Docker, and Rancher. Our automation-first and everything as code mindset allows our software engineers to focus their time and efforts on what is most important - building cutting edge functionality for our end users.
You will have the opportunity to be a full-stack developer working on both front-end and back-end software using Java and JavaScript as well as developing automated tests (unit tests, service level tests, and end-to-end tests) to ensure high quality software that is built into our continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
Desired skills
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
- Ability to use an Integrated Development Environment such as Eclipse IDE or Visual Studio Code
- Experience with Agile management tools such as Version One, Jira, Confluence, etc
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Openstack,GCP etc) or traditional IT systems
- Experience with databases and JPA (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
- Familiarity with the Space Domain
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
- Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
- Ability to use Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)