Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

HST has an immediate need for a senior software engineer to provide software design and architecture support to multiple Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) clients. The successful candidate will lead critical microservices-centric software design, development and application modernization projects across the software development life cycle (SDLC) utilizing DevSecOps best practices.

This candidate can be located in Springfield, VA or San Diego, CA

The ideal candidate will have knowledge and experience of front and back-end software design utilizing the following tools and technologies:

Cloud architectures: AWS, Azure

Languages: Python, Java, Shell/Bash

Operating Systems and Servers: Unix/Linux, Windows

Microservices design and integration

Web Technologies: HTML5/CSS, Javascript, Jquery, JSON

DevSecOps processes and tools (e.g., CI/CD, BitBucket, GitLab, Maven, Fortify, Terraform)

Container technology: containerization and service mesh implementations (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher, Istio)

Requirements:

8+ years of experience

Demonstrated senior level experience in cloud and microservices architecture design

Demonstrated senior level experience integrating solutions using microservices and cloud-based technologies

Demonstrated senior level experience leading technical integration efforts

Demonstrated senior level experience leading multi-application software integration efforts through requirements definition, development, testing and transition

Bachelors degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering (or related field) (masters degree desired)

United States citizenship required

Top Secret/SCI security clearance or current Top Secret SSBI with TS/SCI eligibility required; counterintelligence (CI) polygraph required

The Senior Software Engineer will work on government site and as part of a distributed multi-disciplinary team. This position requires interaction with government customers at all levels of authority and technical acuity; and requires the ability to communicate technical and programmatic information through excellent verbal and written communication skills.