Software Engineer Associate

Summary

SAIC is hiring a Software Developer located in Pensacola, FL. This position will be supporting Training & Education Management Systems for Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) and involves software engineering advisory services, software systems planning, and integration.

Responsibilities

• High-quality software engineering advisory services, software systems planning, integration, and architecture support
• Comprehensive support, maintenance, and enhancement of software using a technology stack that includes AWS technologies, Java, Visual Studio/C#, JavaScript, SQL Server databases
• Fixing bugs, converting, and upgrading legacy code to new technologies, and developing new software features
• Develop and maintain unit tests to ensure the reliability and correctness of software code
• Participate with production deployment process, release planning, creating documents for the release, and creating scripts for the release
• Perform environment Integration testing, such as development, staging and production environment to assure that all functionalities work as expected
• Follows and ensures the system is maintained in accordance with all DoD standards
• ATO controls are met through all phases of the SDLC, to include adding tools to conduct static and dynamic application security testing
• Support software development and integration efforts while adhering to government guidance for strategy, planning, documentation, and implementation
• Implement STIGs and maintain artifacts to ensure an authority to operate (ATO) exists for the system
• Maintain SQL Server databases used by the application
• Conducts hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, or any of the 40+ other accepted degrees identified at cyber.mil that are from an ABET accredited or NCAE-C designated institution
• Hands-on experience with software development in Visual Studio/C# and JavaScript/JQuery - or - Java
• Cloud-based development experience, preferably in AWS GovCloud
• Proficiency in SQL
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Must have a Secret security clearance. Requirement may be waived by the customer to an Interim Secret for strong candidates
• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification
• Experience in DevSecOps best practices, software development life cycles, automation toolchains and CI/CD pipeline
• Experience with building and working with container images
• Ability to work independently while also collaborating effectively with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, or any of the 40+ other accepted degrees identified at cyber.mil that are from an ABET accredited or NCAE-C designated institution
• Hands-on experience with software development in Visual Studio/C# and JavaScript/JQuery - or - Java
• Cloud-based development experience, preferably in AWS GovCloud
• Proficiency in SQL
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Must have a Secret security clearance. Requirement may be waived by the customer to an Interim Secret for strong candidates

Nice to Haves

• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification
• Experience in DevSecOps best practices, software development life cycles, automation toolchains and CI/CD pipeline
• Experience with building and working with container images
• Ability to work independently while also collaborating effectively with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills