Software Engineer - Electronic Warfare

Astrion offers a competitive compensation package for an on-site Software Engineer role in Dahlgren, VA, with a salary range of $120,000 to $140,000 per year. This position sits on the SKCS program within a Scrum team and emphasizes automated testing, data mining, and CI/CD in a DevSecOps environment. This role requires US citizenship and a DoD Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks
• Experience with C++ and object oriented design principles
• Data reduction techniques, including manipulating output text and binary data for automated and manual analysis
• Git and GitLab use for source control and collaboration
• Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and practices

Requirements

• Minimum of five years of professional experience
• STEM bachelor's degree
• Must be a US citizen
• DoD Secret clearance
• Experience with automated testing frameworks
• Test tool development: design, code, and implement scripts and applications to create simulated data and inject messages using Python or C++
• Code review and analysis: ability to understand existing tactical software written in C++
• Enable automated analysis of manual regression tests using collected data (raw binary data or human readable logs)
• CI/CD and DevOps: contribute to the DevSecOps pipeline by converting prior manual tests into repeatable automated tests
• Consolidate repeatable tests within a testing framework to improve configuration management, extensibility, repeatability, maintainability, and report generation
• Code management: use Git for local development and GitLab for configuration management, including handling merge requests and maintaining repositories
• Agile and project management: participate in agile development using JIRA for tickets and Confluence for documentation

Technologies

• Python
• C++
• Git
• GitLab
• Redhat Linux
• Docker containers
• Jenkins
• Rust