Safe Prin. Software Engineer (Cloud) Lv. 6

SAFe Prin. Software Engineer (Cloud) Lv. 6

Argo Cyber Systems is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission-critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment; including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.

Argo Cyber Systems is seeking a SAFe Prin. Software Engineer (Cloud) to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

This position requires a minimum of a USG Secret Security Clearance!

Responsibilities Include:

• Leading and collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as an Agile Release Train (ART) lead responsible for developing advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
• Leading and facilitating program & team-related Agile events (PI Planning, Release Governance, Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, etc.) while maintaining all artifacts (Backlogs, Decisions, Blockers, etc.)
• Eliminating impediments and actively addressing issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the Program Increment (PI)
• Escalating as needed when blocking issues are beyond a team's authority or require support from other teams
• Fostering a collaborative team environment through coaching & leading appropriately
• Leading and facilitating preparation & readiness for ART events & assisting teams in preparation for ART activities (e.g., PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, etc.)
• Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor responsible for the design, test and implementation of advanced cybersecurity infrastructure capabilities
• Review high quality technical documentation, including user guides, test plans, and contract deliverable items and supporting product training
• Development of risk assessments and risk mitigation countermeasures
• Defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision
• Leading Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities
• Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop, and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
• Full lifecycle oversight of requirements-driven automation architecture

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship
• Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading projects
• Demonstrated experience with Lean-Agile principles, metrics, and technology and/or experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma
• Experience communicating with senior leadership, either at Customer, VP, or Director levels
• Ability to shape key stakeholder direction and influence outcomes through the analysis of information and identification of relevant facts
• Independently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• 10+ years of professional experience in a technology related field
• 5+ years direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous api driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, event driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration driven deployments
• 2+ years of experience in either AWS, MS Azure or GCP
• Strong working knowledge of either multi-environment autonomous orchestration, automation tooling, pipeline deployments, or software application integration

Desired Skills:

• Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level
• Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like CloudFormation
• Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby)
• Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows
• Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories
• Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines,
• AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
• Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures
• Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
• Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align

Required Education:

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

Desired Certifications:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Certifications related to Agile development and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Practitioner (SP) or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)