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Senior SW Engineer for IS3, NCCS and NISS Job Description A Lean/Agile software and system sustainment team seeks a self-motivated Senior SW Engineer serving one of the critical applications protecting our national resources. The right candidate finds job-satisfaction in rapid troubleshooting of ambiguous, asymmetrical IT systems to document and apply courses of action that keep users online, and working in the software we support. Operating under hybrid Scaled Agile Framework, you will be expected to define the work needed to accomplish government product owners' strategic goals, while working against specific, credible delivery commitments. Expectations include adherence to typical NISP, DoD, and DCSA policies, procedures, and data standards, and the zeal to document engineering notebook of intended actions, work progress, and outcomes in Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence). This role is pivotal in resolving complex help-desk escalations. The role is also critical during degradation in service (outage), when rapid triage, troubleshooting, documentation of Courses of Action, and application of the intervention or remedy is needed from a professional that can operate transparently with the client under near term pressure, even if the normal operational cadence is more sustainable. This role assists in developing and maintaining a Sustainment Team Delivery Roadmap to include near-term Sprint Planning, 90-day Program Increment planning, and potential input to forecasts and recommendations for planned application remedies and patches in the future. Maintains software applications using innovative solutions to solve contractor or Government identified problems. May have the opportunity to implement emerging technologies, perform vendor patch deployments and software upgrades. Contribute to research on approaches, new software or database products, services, and protocols. Provides continuous software/hardware improvement to facilitate data sharing across applications, to meet data storage requirements, and to improve performance. Maintains compliance with Government data and security standards, including current records management policy for retention, or archiving of data, as well as for application support. Performs development of standards and test plans, code and module design, and data solution debugging for desired efficiency, performance, and intent. Supports testing and rapid debugging/recovery during movement from development to production. Plans for backup and recovery capabilities. Provides ad-hoc reporting, data management, and back-end data support for stakeholders. Software Stack Require Experience in: Front end: Angular 9, AG-Grid, Highcharts, Angular Material, Font Awesome, Extended PDF viewer, HTML, and CSS Back end: RedHat 8 and RH9, Maven, Java 8 & 11 (BDP limitations), SpringBoot and associated libraries Database: MySQL, Postgress SQL 9.6, (BDP limitation) Elasticsearch 7.10 (BDP limitation), Hadoop File System (file storage) Qualifications It is required that the Senior SW Engineer have the following qualifications: BA/BS 6+ years of experience or a combination of experience and education Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot aging, ambiguous, asymmetrical IT systems is an absolute demand of this role Strong communication, written and verbal is strongly desired Solid, recent experience with Java, MySQL, RedHat, Git code branching, discipline/approach Experience with Angular Active Top Secret Clearance Sec+ certification required within 90 days of hire, Preference for CISSP Desired Qualifications Experience with BDP (Big Data Platform) Solid knowledge of Lean/Agile, Scaled Agile Framework, authoring work (stories) maintaining work plans in backlog, Agile Planning