Software Engineer 3

Purpose and Impact: If you want to be part of a dynamic Team delivering and engaging in cutting-edge training solutions, this is the place for you!  Amentum is currently seeking a new team member to join the DevOps team in Hanover, MD. This team ensures successful delivery of cyber security courses in Maryland, Georgia, Texas, and Hawaii. Team members will be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team delivering highly sophisticated, technical, hands-on training solutions to meet the mission and time-critical needs of our customers using custom solutions and modern software development frameworks. The team is focused on the development of tailored, high quality, timely software solutions for use by instructional staff members and students. The team implements all parts of the software development process; from configuring and managing the deployment and support environment to writing, testing, and deploying the code. If you are a software engineer or have web application development or DevOps experience, are a self-starting enterprising person, and are looking to expand your knowledge in all parts of application development, then this is the position for you.   Work Schedule: The courses being supported are active from 0700-1800 M-F. Contract core hours are 1000-1400. The DevOps team is flexible on arrival and departure time however there are occasions where one or more DevOps team members will be needed to support testing and maintenance before or after course hours.  Essential Responsibilities: The DevOps team’s responsibilities include capturing and evaluating requirements, designing services, pipelines and user interfaces/experiences (UI/UX) that are elegant and forward-thinking, selecting and implementing technologies that are the best fit for the application, managing and configuring the application code, documenting, testing, and maintaining the application during its lifespan. This will include many of the following actions and more as requirements demand.   Designing, developing, troubleshooting, and analyzing software programs for computer-based training.    Research, document, and test security solutions for emerging technologies, security methodologies, and CNE concepts.    Support the development of comprehensive, tactically relevant operational training through the design, development, and implementation of training scenarios required to prepare students for operations.    Work with a team of multi-disciplinary professionals to create, evaluate, and apply necessary updates based on recommendations for course content and training material updates.     Advancing the maturity of, and troubleshooting issues with, existing class management tools to support and ensure delivery and grading of student activities.   Creating and maintaining virtualized systems that are used to facilitate and simulate real-world scenarios that create an immersive cyber-environment for students.   Performing system modeling, simulation and analysis.    Designing and developing utility programs and operations systems and conducting detailed analysis of system specifications.    Providing input for documentation of new or existing programs, associated documentation, block diagrams and logic flow charts applied to engineering problems.    Verifying accuracy and completeness of programs by preparing sample data, conducting programs tests, analyzing test results and logs, and debugging programs errors.    Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands : The DevOps team works in a SCIF air-gapped environment at a contractor site.   Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):     Minimum thirteen (13) years of applicable software development experience. A Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science or related field can be substituted for three (3) years of experience. A Master’s degree in a Computer Science or related field can be substituted for eight (8) years of experience.   Demonstrate knowledge of commonly used application programming languages, frameworks and components (to include, but not limited to: Python, Ruby, shell scripting, C++, HTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON/XML, JavaScript/TypeScript and JQuery, React, SQL/NoSQL and relational databases, etc…).    A working knowledge of both Windows and Linux platforms e.g. set up, maintenance, or administration of servers and workstations.    Experience working with agile methodologies   Experience setting up and maintaining services, hosts, and networking in virtualized environments to create or support realistic interactive learning e.g. VMWare, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.  Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly  Minimum Education: Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and five (5) years of applicable software development experience is required. OR  A Bachelor’s Degree and five (5) additional years of experience is acceptable for a total of ten (10) years of applicable software development experience. OR Three (3) years of experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree is acceptable, for a total of thirteen (13) years of applicable software development experience.  Minimum Years of Experience: (5) years of applicable software development experience is required. Experience developing using one or more of the following languages: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, or C++.  Requires demonstrated proficiency in web UI interface design using a variety of languages such as HTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON/XML, JavaScript/TypeScript, and JQuery or similar.  Experience using SQL/NoSQL and relational databases (MySQL/MongoDB preferred) required.  A working knowledge of both Windows and Linux platform is required.  Demonstrated experience with agile methodologies.  Required Certifications: Sec+ or equivalent  Preferred Qualifications: The DevOps team positions require fully cleared individuals with an extensive range of experience and abilities to develop applications for Computer Network Oper