Software Engineer - Remote Eligible

Software Engineer

The Digital Modernization Group at Leidos currently has an opening for a full-time telework Software Engineer position. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS) program. This program supports large HR data systems for our customer, the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC).

The role will support sustainment and development activities for multiple systems running across multiple platforms and environments. This will include following a continuous software development life cycle and applying agile methodologies to quickly meet stakeholder needs. This will include daily scrums and weekly rhythms to facilitate fixes and information gathering as well as ongoing collaboration with other parts of DMDC. The role will be working on several small Leidos teams with embedded DMDC employees and will regularly interface with a large number of external government stakeholders across the DMDC enterprise. Work will include application and database changes, code and unit testing, cyber remediations, audit support, technical inquiries, architectural exchanges, documentation updates, system triage, and ad hoc requests from users and DMDC. The candidate should expect a dynamic work environment with new priorities and processes each week. We want someone who already has the qualifications and expertise to support the team immediately. This position will report to the DCPDS Application Support Manager.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of applications and databases
• Ensure uninterrupted day-to-day operations
• Perform cybersecurity remediation and bug fixes for the application and underlying software
• Perform analysis of software requirements
• Support the full software development lifecycle
• Support upgrades, patches, and migrations
• Troubleshooting operational and development issues
• Create and update required documentation
• Manage code, database, script, and documentation baselines
• Collaborate regularly with teammates, management, and customers
• Recommend and follow best practices
• Identify and implement efficiencies
• Triage support for operational issues

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree with 6 years of prior relevant experience or Masters degree with 4 years of experience
• Active investigation (Tier 5) in order to be adjudicated to the IT-I level Position of Trust
• Active Security+ certification
• Proficiency with.NET Framework, VB.NET, C#, ColdFusion, SQL Server, and JavaScript
• Familiar with MVC, Entity Management Framework, Razor pages, jQuery, and other JavaScript libraries
• Familiar with secure coding best practices
• Familiar with Dev tools like SharePoint, QC, Jira, Subversion, and GitLab
• Willing to work occasional nights and weekends
• Ability to ramp up quickly on new systems
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Proven leadership and mentoring abilities
• Demonstrated responsiveness and patience when working with stakeholders
• Excellent multitasking ability

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience supporting ASARS, EPAT, and Wage systems
• Previous experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD) agencies
• Familiarity with cloud-based technologies like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, etc.
• Familiarity with Oracle SQL or similar database languages
• Familiarity Agile scrum development processes and tools
• Familiarity with full-stack development processes and tools
• Familiarity with DevSecOps processes and tools

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