Software Developer (ICAM) from ALTA IT Services

ALTA IT is looking for a Senior Software Engineer (ICAM) for a permanent salaried position with our client in Chantilly VA. This position requires a TS/SCI with CI Poly. This position is onsite in Chantilly.

Salary: 200K
Please send resumes to cklausner@altaits.com

Responsibilities

• Provide technical stewardship to the Agile Development Teams (ADTs).
• Define, document, maintain, and communicate processes, practices, security, and configurations (PPS&C) to guide the program’s SW Development
• Identify and facilitate configuration and availability of the DevSecOps infrastructure and development, integration, and test resources
• Ensure SW Development environments and infrastructure meet development and test needs
• Assist the ADT to meet sprint objectives by ensuring technical challenges and roadblocks are addressed and removed.
• Ensure inter-ADT communication and dependency coordination occurs tied to the execution of Program Increment Epics and Stories and issue resolution
• Ensure the quality of the software and solutions produced by the ADTs
• Collaborate and assist O&S, Consumer Integration, Deployment, and Development teams in troubleshooting integration, test, and operational issues tied to the software baseline
• Collaborate with other technical leads (on-program and external) to facilitate process improvements and technical innovation
• Ensure baseline updates have been properly prepared for deployment
• Communicate with technical leadership, and ADT leads, and release train engineer impacts to the ADTs to fast-track critical and high-priority efforts.
• Identify to the Chief Software Engineer ADT skill deficiencies that are impacting the successful execution of development efforts
• Responsible for verifying code meets standards defined in the PPS&C.
• Communicate status to customer and program leadership of ongoing ADT SW development efforts
• Recommend and coordinate key information related to the need and description of off-cycle releases
• Investigate and determine the resolution of development process/execution-related issues
• Assist program leadership in the evaluation of technical personnel and determining ADT composition
• Plan, coordinate, and ensure the end of the Sprint Demo occurs
• Plan, coordinate, and ensure ADT's support end of PI Demo for customer
• Maintain documentation of the program’s software baseline

Required Skills:

• Clearance: Top Secret clearance is required; TS/SCI w CI Poly is preferred
• Candidate must have a BS degree with 12 years of professional experience; 10 years with a Masters
• 4-5 years of experience working in an Agile software development environment as a technical contributor
• Experience serving as a technical lead with a large software development team (15-20 developers) comprised of smaller, product-focused teams.
• Experience briefing customers and stakeholders
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation of technical material to non-technical audiences
• Thorough understanding of the Agile software development process (SAFe Agile preferred) and its key processes, milestones, and roles.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Java, JavaScript, Python, or other modern programming languages desired
• Experience with deploying, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting software (both custom and COTS/FOSS) in a Linux environment
• Experience working in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing environment; similar for MS Azure is desired
• Experience integrating custom code with 3rd party software products/platforms (for example, development of custom plugins for a commercial or open-source product)
• Experience with version control systems such as git or Subversion
• Understanding of DevSecOps concepts/tools, and how they would apply in practice

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of SSL/TLS and PKI concepts
• Familiarity with one or more common identity and access management protocols/standards, just as OAuth, SAML, LDAP, SCIM, or OIDC

• Prior knowledge of (or experience with) the Oracle Identity and Access Management (IAM) suite (including OAM, OUD, and OHS), API Gateways, Apache web servers and/or proxy servers, and application servers is a major plus
• Direct experience with multiple of the following and a desire to learn the others:
  • Database setup and integration, both relational and NoSQL (Oracle DB, MySQL, CouchDB)
  • DevOps automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
  • Source control and Agile development tools (Git, Maven, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence)
  • Analytics and search engines (Elasticsearch, Splunk, Apache Solr)
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification (e.g. Certified SAFe Agilist) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• An active cybersecurity, cloud, and/or network product certification (e.g. CISSP, AWS)

• Mobile development.