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We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with demonstrated experience in working in modern software development methodologies and understanding DoD software development policies, issues, and priorities. This position will support the Naval Surface Warfare Center and focus on bringing modern software engineering processes and best practices to DoD programs and policies, all to improve outcomes for the warfighter.  It is necessary to be familiar with C++ development within the last 10 years to define and clarify why and how to merge implementation of certain software fixes among several software teams. 

You'll have the opportunity to review requirements and create additional documentation to support our software-related process and correction of defects completed by several teams, while improving reliability and reducing toil for our engineering teams. 

Senior Software Engineer Responsibilities Include:

• Designing, creating, and managing high-performance infrastructure and tooling for external and internal code base sections.

• Providing systems for infrastructure provisioning, observe deployment, and track defects that serve all engineering teams.

• Being an architectural “consultant” and software expert to product teams at the design stage of their features and services.

• Identifying inefficiencies, risks, and reliability issues, and write high-leverage tools to tackle them.

• Providing technical overview without writing the infrastructure related software.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in computer science, computer engineering, EE, physics or math and 12 years of experience.

• 15 years software development experience or equivalent research experience.                                   

• Experience performing software design, code, and testing.  Must have an interim Secret clearance and be a US citizen to start.

• Experience architecture/maintenance of systems in a solid quality Agile environment using Agile toolsets

• Experience with modern metrics, monitoring, and logging frameworks and services. 

• Able telecommute with occasional travel, at least 2 trips to Dahlgren, VA to see the development and test lab. 

• Must have an Active SECRET US Government Clearance. Note: US Citizenship is required to obtain a SECRET Clearance.

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