Security Verification Test; SVT Software Engineer TS​/SCI Polygraph

Description

Security Verification Test (SVT) Software Engineer

Leidos has a new and exciting opportunity for a Security Verification Test (SVT) Software Engineer in our Intel Sector's Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA). Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more.

Join us and make a difference in National Security!

The selected individual will perform software development activities as a member of an agile development team focused on preparation and execution of verification tests of our software releases. Development includes the full range of turning agile stories into implementable concepts, through development, testing and deployment of the new capabilities in this large, complex system. Following the Behavior Driven Development (BDD) pattern, our developers are responsible for implementing robust testing leveraging DEVOPS automation and, where appropriate, use of test automation commercial tools.

Developers will have the opportunity to focus on developing customer domain specific language code and there are a range of opportunities for Java, embedded C++, scripting languages, object-oriented modeling tools, low-level programming, serialization/deserialization, and dependency injection.

• Perform software development activities individually and as a member of an agile team.
• Actively participate in Program Increment planning and related team activities.
• Analyze and study complex system requirements, use design software tools, provide support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and other accepted design techniques with the use of CASE tools.
• Use sound software engineering principles to ensure that developed code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, fault tolerant, and reusable.
• Provide software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development process.
• Promote code reuse and cross-program collaboration while reducing maintenance costs by creating common functions and shared actions for developers and testers.
• Engineer, author, tune, and document automation scripts in a development environment and deploy to the test/production bench.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and at least 8 years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Must have demonstrated experience with Java.
• Experience or familiarity with multiple of the following:
  Java/JEE, Python, C/C++, SQL, SOAP, WSDL, WADL, PERL, Power Shell, VBS, Eclipse, Postgres, Oracle, Jenkins.
• Experience with Web Application User Interface Development, knowledge of databases and structures, and/or experience working with JSON, HTML, XML, XSLT.
• Experience with technologies underlying cryptographic systems (symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, ASN.
  1 encoding, XML canonicalization, digital signatures).
• Experience developing on Windows, and/or Linux operating systems.
• Must have documented professional experience with web services.
• Must have a strong understanding of sound software development principles and practices.
• Must be able to plan and prioritize personal tasking and be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Must be an independent thinker, capable of performing high quality work, both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.
• Clearance Required:
  
  Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph, up front.

• Experience with high level requirements management including requirements decomposition, secure systems engineering and development, trade-off analysis, interface control, and testing and continuous integration.
• Experience in software development on Agile teams using Agile Developer practices such as Pair Programming, TDD, Refactoring, and ATDD.
• Experience developing/integrating with custom defined Domain Specific Languages (DSL).
• Experience implementing structures in a scripting language that can be interpreted by a DSL.
• Experience with Object Software Modeling tools.
• Experience with developing real-time embedded software.
• Experience with JEE, SQL, application servers (Tomcat, Web Logic, JBoss), scripting.
• Experience with FITNesse, Mockito, Cucumber, Unified Functional Tester (UFT), Selenium.
• Experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
• Experience with secure software development (i.e., Layer 7 Policy).
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology, SAFe Agilest Certification, or experience as a member of an agile team.
• Additional experience in J2EE, Python, C/C++, SQL, SOAP, WSDL, Postgres, Oracle, Mongo,…