DCS Corp is seeking a Junior Software Engineer to support the HB PEO Digital at Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA. The role involves modernizing and improving existing software systems, addressing cross-cutting engineering concerns, and advocating for modern technical approaches within the Air Force's digital initiatives.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
- The Contractor shall ensure personnel have credentialing that meet Information Assurance Technical (IAT) level two (2) certification for performance of this work, as outlined in DoD 8570.01-M, Information Assurance Workforce Improvement Program, Table AP3.T2.
Responsibilities
- Pair with engineers to identify solutions to technical challenges.
- Tackle cross-cutting engineering concerns; fostering an environment for engineers across the organization to collaborate on solutions.
- Find opportunities for automation wherever possible and push teams to invest.
- Advocate for development and implementation of modern, improved technical approaches; fostering a continuous improvement mindset with our engineering staff.
- 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.
- Define engineering standards and best practices, fostering a continuous improvement mindset with our engineering staff.
Other
- You will collaborate with the Portfolio Leadership team on how best to achieve WingC2’s CMG OKRs and portfolio goals.
- 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.
- You don’t mind working in older systems and technologies, even though the target is to re-architect, rebuild, virtualize and refresh them.
