Principal Software Systems Engineer

Company:  MITRE
Location: McLean
Closing Date: 03/11/2024
Salary: £125 - £150 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

Department Summary:

The Software Engineering & Computing Department (SWEC) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with a desire to work on innovative advanced approaches and technologies to solve our sponsors’ most critical technological problems. In this role you will provide technical leadership in full-life cycle and hands-on support to critical sponsor problems in Software Engineering. In addition, you will have an opportunity to work in many different sponsor domains with a wide variety of software engineering and information technology applications, protypes and systems.

Do you want to make the world safer by applying your software engineering skills? At MITRE, work as a trusted advisor to provide thought leadership and problem-solving skills to the government to deliver needed capabilities to address the world's most difficult problems.

Specific responsibilities will include:

  • Play a trusted role as a technical leader in helping government sponsors apply life-cycle software engineering methodologies and software development technologies to mission critical systems.
  • Design technical projects utilizing software engineering skills to help sponsors to integrate, scale, consolidate and modernize software systems for solving national security problems.
  • Lead teams that provide technical advice and solutions to fully integrate software engineering technologies and tools in the sponsors environments.
  • Provide technical expertise to design, prototype and maintain environments from end-to-end deployment
  • Serve as project leader, task leader or subject matter expert on projects with supported government organizations related to security, architecture, and engineering support
  • Conduct analysis of current government and support contractor implementations of software engineering efforts
  • Collaborate with MITRE experts in software engineering knowledge management, research, and other efforts to grow MITRE’s body of knowledge in software engineering capabilities and disciplines.

Basic Qualifications:

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 4 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience

  • Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.
  • Documented success in defining and leading projects or programs greater than themselves with experience in both task leadership and management.
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
  • Experience (architectural and/or hands-on) with one or more commercial cloud offerings (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc).
  • Practical application of release, sprint planning, and backlog management with related agile tools (e.g., VersionOne, JIRA).
  • Fluent in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, C++ or C#).
  • Candidate understands full software development life cycle and is fully responsible for delivery – including definition, completion, and technical quality. In addition.
  • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or similar field
  • Experience in software design and implementation in federal and commercial domains
  • Experience or expertise in 3 or more of the following areas:
    • Experience with continuous software integration and deployment
    • Experience with automated testing
    • Experience with DevOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Chef, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Terraform, Gitlab).
    • Familiarity with enterprise-level models of agile development (e.g., SAFE)
    • Experience with containerization platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

Department Summary:

The Software Engineering & Computing Department (SWEC) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with a desire to work on innovative advanced approaches and technologies to solve our sponsors’ most critical technological problems. In this role you will provide technical leadership in full-life cycle and hands-on support to critical sponsor problems in Software Engineering. In addition, you will have an opportunity to work in many different sponsor domains with a wide variety of software engineering and information technology applications, protypes and systems.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Do you want to make the world safer by applying your software engineering skills? At MITRE, work as a trusted advisor to provide thought leadership and problem-solving skills to the government to deliver needed capabilities to address the world's most difficult problems.

Specific responsibilities will include:

  • Play a trusted role as a technical leader in helping government sponsors apply life-cycle software engineering methodologies and software development technologies to mission critical systems.
  • Design technical projects utilizing software engineering skills to help sponsors to integrate, scale, consolidate and modernize software systems for solving national security problems.
  • Lead teams that provide technical advice and solutions to fully integrate software engineering technologies and tools in the sponsors environments.
  • Provide technical expertise to design, prototype and maintain environments from end-to-end deployment
  • Serve as project leader, task leader or subject matter expert on projects with supported government organizations related to security, architecture, and engineering support
  • Conduct analysis of current government and support contractor implementations of software engineering efforts
  • Collaborate with MITRE experts in software engineering knowledge management, research, and other efforts to grow MITRE’s body of knowledge in software engineering capabilities and disciplines.

Basic Qualifications:

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 4 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience

  • Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.
  • Documented success in defining and leading projects or programs greater than themselves with experience in both task leadership and management.
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
  • Experience (architectural and/or hands-on) with one or more commercial cloud offerings (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc).
  • Practical application of release, sprint planning, and backlog management with related agile tools (e.g., VersionOne, JIRA).
  • Expertise in agile software delivery (e.g., Scrum, XP).
  • Fluent in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, C++ or C#).
  • Candidate understands full software development life cycle and is fully responsible for delivery – including definition, completion, and technical quality. In addition.
  • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or similar field
  • Experience in software design and implementation in federal and commercial domains
  • Experience or expertise in 3 or more of the following areas:
    • Experience with continuous software integration and deployment
    • Experience with automated testing
    • Experience with DevOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Chef, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Terraform, Gitlab).
    • Familiarity with enterprise-level models of agile development (e.g., SAFE)
    • Experience with containerization platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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