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Astrion offers comprehensive services that boost preparedness, optimize performance, and ensure success across various domains, from Cyber to Digital, Mission and Systems, servicing our nation's Civilian, Defense and Space communities. We support customers with Centers of Excellence in Washington DC, Huntsville, AL and Burlington, MA with an additional 36 locations across the U.S.
Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to provide support to the Kessel Run Division, which is within the USAF Digital Directorate and located at Hanscom AFB, MA.
This position works as part of a Portfolio Leadership team (Product Lead, Acquisition Lead, and Design Lead) to provide technical perspectives and advocacy around the development, communication, and execution of the portfolio’s product suite.
The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for maintaining technical awareness of product teams and for supporting the engineers on those teams.
The goal is to provide hands-on support to engineers as they execute the WingC2’s Command and Misision Group (CMG) strategy while also balancing code health. This position will provide guidance to product teams, to direct technical advice, and empower whenever possible.
They advocate for team engineering staff concerns with portfolio and WingC2’s CMG leadership.
Ideally, this individual has experience in facilitation and communication, and opts for simplicity.
They should value and be able to articulate the importance of focusing on outcomes over outputs, from strategy to implementation.
Duties include, but not limited to:
- You will pair with engineers to identify solutions to technical challenges
- You will collaborate with the Portfolio Leadership team on how best to achieve WingC2’s CMG OKRs and portfolio goals
- You will tackle cross-cutting engineering concerns; fostering an environment for engineers across the organization to collaborate on solutions
- You will find opportunities for automation wherever possible and push teams to invest
- You will advocate for development and implementation of modern, improved technical approaches; fostering a continuous improvement mindset with our engineering staff
- Understand problem spaces of several applications and programs (group of projects), aligned with the organization's vision and mission.
- Superb communication skills are essential for this position, alignment with all players is often necessary.
- Breaking down requirements, creating plans and executing them are mandatory skills.
- Architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
- Working with resources at your disposal, identifying areas of opportunity; weak points and correcting them, including external contracting companies that are partners with the Air Force outsourcing development services.
- Modernization is not only for hardware, off the shelf software or building in-house software, but also reshaping and upholding agile practices, step by step, and challenging bureaucracy and old waterfall methodologies. You will define engineering standards and best practices, fostering a continuous improvement mindset with our engineering staff.
- You don’t mind working in older systems and technologies, even though the target is to re-architect, rebuild, virtualize and refresh them.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
Citizenship: Must be a US citizen
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Years’ experience: 15 years of directly related experience with 8 years of experience in a DoD setting
- Employee will work on the Enterprise Software team that deploys, monitors, and manages commercial off the shelf and free open source software via our AWS instances (or in one case, compiles an executable and puts it in an S3 bucket for inclusion in Jamf Self-Service).
- Skills required include previous work developing and maintaining high-availability business systems.
- Knowledge of Helm charts, Helm is detailed as "The Kubernetes Package Manager".
- Experience using Gitlab for version control, CI/CD, and project management is desired.
- Python and shell scripting desired.
- Candidates should have experience with multi-system interoperability and integration, experience with classified systems and the challenges they present for interoperability and fielding.
- Experience with Information Technology (IT) systems, as well as the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of software, including familiarity with software Verification and Validation processes.
- Experience in full software development lifecycle from conception to include architecture definition, detailed design, embedded software, scoping, planning, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery and sustainment as applied to DoD systems, as well as knowledge of professional Software Engineering and best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, documentation development and principles of configuration management
- Familiarity with Electronic Warfare and/or Air Combat operations including live aircrew training/development of tactics, techniques, and procedures and Range Infrastructure architectures and systems are desired
- Experience with development of networked protocols in both Windows and Linux operating systems is desired.
- Must have an active US security clearance.
What We Offer
- Competitive salaries
- Continuing education assistance
- Professional development allotment
- Multiple healthcare benefits packages
- 401K with employer matching
- Paid time off (PTO) along with a federally recognized holiday schedule
Who We Are
At Astrion, we innovate, elevate, and shape the world of tomorrow. At our core is our purpose to “Be the Difference”. This means we encourage our employees to take action and be the driving force for positive change. We foster an environment where innovative solutions flourish and our company continuously evolves.
We have a culture of care, empathy, and making a tangible difference within our organization and communities. We embrace continuous learning, growth, and innovation, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We promote collaboration and empowering our teams is at the core of our success.
Join Astrion and Be the Difference in your career and the world!
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