USAF - Jr. Software Engineer

cFocus Software Incorporated; South Dakota; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

cFocus Software Incorporated seeks a Jr. Software Engineer to join our program supporting the United States Air Force. This onsite role is located at Ellsworth, South Dakota and requires a TS/SCI SSBI clearance.

The candidate will design, develop, test, and sustain enterprise applications within a controlled environment. Qualifications include a BS in a related field and 2+ years of software engineering experience, with emphasis on secure development, testing, and cross-stack integration.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI SSBI clearance.
• B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 2+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• Advanced software engineering experience supporting mission-critical enterprise applications through design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and implementing complex system modifications within controlled, configuration-managed environments.
• Strong experience with secure software development, debugging, logging, exception handling, vulnerability remediation, and security-control implementation.
• Experience designing and executing unit, integration, regression, interface, performance, security, and production-readiness testing.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with WebSphere middleware, DB2 databases, and underlying Windows/Linux infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Analyze mission, functional, technical, cybersecurity, interface, and sustainment requirements and translate them into implementable software designs and engineering changes.
• Design, develop, modify, integrate, debug, and sustain FMWF application components and associated services in accordance with approved technical baselines.
• Evaluate requested system modifications, identify dependencies and risks, develop corrective engineering solutions, and maintain usability within evolving technical environments.
• Perform secure software engineering and implement applicable security controls, least-privilege practices, auditability, error handling, data protection, and compliance requirements.
• Maintain controlled development and test environments, including configuration management, patch validation, test data management, and secure backup of development data.
• Develop and execute unit, integration, regression, interface, performance, security, and deployment-validation testing.
• Conduct engineering validation of patches, updates, enhancements, and modifications before production release and verify production readiness.
• Validate post-deployment functionality and performance; analyze failures and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Support cross-stack integration among the application, WebSphere middleware, DB2 databases, Windows/Linux systems, Active Directory, virtualization, storage, and security tooling.
• Collaborate with database administrators on schemas, queries, data integrity, interfaces, migrations, performance, and recovery considerations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers and system administrators on environments, service accounts, deployment dependencies, capacity, availability, patching, and configuration changes.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel on RMF controls, vulnerability remediation, authorization evidence, assessment findings, and continuous-monitoring requirements.
• Provide Level III technical escalation support through advanced diagnostics, log analysis, debugging, code-level root cause analysis, and fault isolation.
• Support routine lifecycle sustainment, emergency corrective engineering, COOP, disaster recovery, and mission-continuity activities.
• Support implementation and short-term sustainment of newly deployed capabilities and transition stable solutions into operations.
• Participate in configuration reviews, readiness reviews, engineering change management, technical reviews, and QASP performance activities.
• Develop and maintain source code, build/deployment materials, interface documentation, design records, test plans/results, release notes, configuration records, and operating procedures under version control.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Software engineering fundamentals

Unit/integration testing

Root-cause analysis

Documentation & communication

Education

B.S. Computer Science / IT or related field

Tools

WebSphere middleware

DB2 databases

Windows / Linux infrastructure

Source control / build & release

RMF / DoD cyber compliance

Job description

cFocus Software seeks a Jr. Software Engineer to join our program supporting the United States Air Force. This position is onsite with the onsite location being in Ellsworth, South Dakota. This position requires a TS/SCI SSBI clearance.

Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI SSBI clearance
• B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 2+ years of Software Engineering experience
• Advanced software engineering experience supporting mission-critical enterprise applications through design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and implementing complex system modifications within controlled, configuration-managed environments.
• Strong experience with secure software development, debugging, logging, exception handling, vulnerability remediation, and security-control implementation.
• Experience designing and executing unit, integration, regression, interface, performance, security, and production-readiness testing.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with WebSphere middleware, DB2 databases, and underlying Windows/Linux infrastructure.
• Ability to perform advanced diagnostics and code-level root cause engineering and to provide Level III escalation support
• Experience with source control, build and release management, configuration baselines, change control, patch/update validation, and deployment verification.
• Working knowledge of RMF, Assessment and Authorization, continuous monitoring, authorization evidence, and DoD/Air Force cybersecurity compliance.
• Experience supporting backup/recovery, resilience, COOP, disaster recovery, test-data protection, and emergency corrective actions.
• Strong technical documentation, peer-review, problem-solving, stakeholder-coordination, quality-control, and communication skills.
• Active IA System Architect and Engineer (IASAE) Level I, DoD 8140 System Administrator, and 632-Intermediate

Duties:

• Analyze mission, functional, technical, cybersecurity, interface, and sustainment requirements and translate them into implementable software designs and engineering changes.
• Design, develop, modify, integrate, debug, and sustain FMWF application components and associated services in accordance with approved technical baselines.
• Evaluate requested system modifications, identify dependencies and risks, develop corrective engineering solutions, and maintain usability within evolving technical environments.
• Perform secure software engineering and implement applicable security controls, least-privilege practices, auditability, error handling, data protection, and compliance requirements.
• Maintain controlled development and test environments, including configuration management, patch validation, test data management, and secure backup of development data.
• Develop and execute unit, integration, regression, interface, performance, security, and deployment-validation testing.
• Conduct engineering validation of patches, updates, enhancements, and modifications before production release and verify production readiness.
• Validate post-deployment functionality and performance; analyze failures and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Support cross-stack integration among the application, WebSphere middleware, DB2 databases, Windows/Linux systems, Active Directory, virtualization, storage, and security tooling.
• Collaborate with database administrators on schemas, queries, data integrity, interfaces, migrations, performance, and recovery considerations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers and system administrators on environments, service accounts, deployment dependencies, capacity, availability, patching, and configuration changes.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel on RMF controls, vulnerability remediation, authorization evidence, assessment findings, and continuous-monitoring requirements.
• Provide Level III technical escalation support through advanced diagnostics, log analysis, debugging, code-level root cause analysis, and fault isolation.
• Support routine lifecycle sustainment, emergency corrective engineering, COOP, disaster recovery, and mission-continuity activities.
• Support implementation and short-term sustainment of newly deployed capabilities and transition stable solutions into operations.
• Participate in configuration reviews, readiness reviews, engineering change management, technical reviews, and QASP performance activities.
• Develop and maintain source code, build/deployment materials, interface documentation, design records, test plans/results, release notes, configuration records, and operating procedures under version control.