SAFe Prin. Software Engineer (Cloud) Lv. 6, Argo Cyber Systems, Dulles, VA
Argo Cyber Systems -
Dulles, VA,
US
SAFe Prin. Software Engineer (Cloud) Lv. 6
Date Posted: 2024-06-15
Job description
SAFe Prin. Software Engineer (Cloud) Lv. 6
Argo Cyber Systems is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission-critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment; including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.
Argo Cyber Systems is seeking a SAFe Prin. Software Engineer (Cloud) to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
This position requires a minimum of a USG Secret Security Clearance!
Responsibilities Include:
Required Skills:
Desired Skills:
Required Education:
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.
Desired Certifications:
Argo Cyber Systems is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission-critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment; including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.
Argo Cyber Systems is seeking a SAFe Prin. Software Engineer (Cloud) to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
This position requires a minimum of a USG Secret Security Clearance!
Responsibilities Include:
- Leading and collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as an Agile Release Train (ART) lead responsible for developing advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
- Leading and facilitating program & team-related Agile events (PI Planning, Release Governance, Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, etc.) while maintaining all artifacts (Backlogs, Decisions, Blockers, etc.)
- Eliminating impediments and actively addressing issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the Program Increment (PI)
- Escalating as needed when blocking issues are beyond a team's authority or require support from other teams
- Fostering a collaborative team environment through coaching & leading appropriately
- Leading and facilitating preparation & readiness for ART events & assisting teams in preparation for ART activities (e.g., PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, etc.)
- Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor responsible for the design, test and implementation of advanced cybersecurity infrastructure capabilities
- Review high quality technical documentation, including user guides, test plans, and contract deliverable items and supporting product training
- Development of risk assessments and risk mitigation countermeasures
- Defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision
- Leading Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities
- Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop, and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
- Full lifecycle oversight of requirements-driven automation architecture
Required Skills:
- U.S. Citizenship
- Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
- Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading projects
- Demonstrated experience with Lean-Agile principles, metrics, and technology and/or experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma
- Experience communicating with senior leadership, either at Customer, VP, or Director levels
- Ability to shape key stakeholder direction and influence outcomes through the analysis of information and identification of relevant facts
- Independently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- 10+ years of professional experience in a technology related field
- 5+ years direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous api driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, event driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration driven deployments
- 2+ years of experience in either AWS, MS Azure or GCP
- Strong working knowledge of either multi-environment autonomous orchestration, automation tooling, pipeline deployments, or software application integration
Desired Skills:
- Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level
- Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like CloudFormation
- Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby)
- Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows
- Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories
- Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines,
- AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
- Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures
- Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects
- Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
- Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align
Required Education:
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.
Desired Certifications:
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Certifications related to Agile development and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Practitioner (SP) or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)