Security Verification Test SWE, Senior

Navstar Inc.; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly Competitive Health Care Premiums

Generous PTO and Federal Holiday Paid Leave

401K plan and Employer Match

Job summary

Navstar Inc. in Annapolis, MD is seeking a qualified SVT Software Engineer to join their agile team. The role involves responsibilities such as software development, using various technologies including Java, C/C++, and Python, and participating in Program Increment planning. Candidates must hold a TS/SCI clearance and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. The position offers a competitive salary range of $100,000-$275,000 and a hiring bonus of $10,000. Benefits include paid health care, PTO, and a 401K plan.

Qualifications

• Hold an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Documented professional experience with web services.
• Strong understanding of sound software development principles and practices.

Responsibilities

• Perform software development activities as a member of an agile development team.
• Analyze and study complex system requirements.
• Promote code reuse and cross-program collaboration.

Skills

Java

Python

C/C++

SQL

SOAP

HTML

JSON

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Eclipse

Postgres

Jenkins

Job description

Role Description

Would you like to perform rewarding work while contributing to the success of an established, growing company? Navstar is an award‑winning organization that has a proven track record of successfully providing IT services and solutions as both a prime and sub‑contractor on mission‑focused IT programs. Our employees are integral players in support of mission‑critical programs focused on our 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.

The SVT Software Engineer will be responsible for software development activities both individually and as a member of an agile team. She/he will actively participate in Program Increment planning and related team activities, and will 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 Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools, and will use sound software engineering principles to ensure that developed code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, fault‑tolerant, and reusable.

The individual will provide software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development process. Additionally, the individual will promote code reuse and cross‑program collaboration while reducing maintenance costs by creating common functions and shared actions for developers and testers. The selected individual will engineer, author, tune, and document automation scripts in a development environment and deploy to the test/production bench.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Hold an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Demonstrated experience with Java.
• In‑depth experience or familiarity with Java/JEE, Python, C/C++, SQL, SOAP, WSDL, WADL, Perl, PowerShell, 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.
• Documented professional experience with web services.
• Strong understanding of sound software development principles and practices.
• Ability to plan and prioritize personal tasking and communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Independent thinker capable of performing high‑quality work both independently and with a team in a fast‑moving environment.

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with high level requirements management including requirements decomposition, secure systems engineering and development, trade‑off analysis, interface control, testing and continuous integration.
• Experience in software development on Agile teams using Pair Programming, TDD, Refactoring, and ATDD.
• Developing/integrating with custom defined Domain Specific Languages (DSL).
• 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 (EJB, JPA, JTA, JAX‑B, JAX‑RS, JAX‑WS), SQL, application servers (Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss), scripting.
• Experience with FITNesse, Mockito, Cucumber, Unified Functional Tester (UFT), Selenium.
• Experience with Behavior‑Driven Development (BDD).
• Secure Software development (Layer 7 Policy).
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology, SAFe Agile certification, or experience as a member of an agile team.
• Additional experience in J2EE, Python, C/C++, SQL, SOAP, WSDL, Postgres, Oracle, Mongo, PowerShell a plus.

Pay Rate

In compliance with Maryland's Equal Pay for Equal Work law, the annual base salary range for this position is $100,000 – $275,000. This range represents base pay for this role and is provided in accordance with Maryland's requirements to disclose compensation in job postings. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as scope and responsibilities of the role, candidate's qualifications, experience, education, skills, internal equity, and market conditions. In addition to base salary, candidates hired into this position may be eligible for a hiring bonus of $10,000.00, subject to applicable contingencies and Navstar policy.

Benefits at Navstar

• Highly Competitive Health Care Premiums, including 100% employer paid for employee
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Medical and Dependent Care
• Generous PTO and Federal Holiday Paid Leave
• Employer Paid STD/LTD
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• 401K plan and Employer Match
• Referral and Opportunity Referral Programs
• Professional Development Assistance

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled

Navstar, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religious beliefs, national origin, disability, U.S. veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics under federal, state or local law.