Job Description:
Competitive Range partners with the government to plan and deploy complex, IT-enabled, and mission-essential capabilities. Our goal is to help you develop and expand your professional capabilities while working on challenging, exciting projects in a collaborative, congenial environment.
We are seeking a Software Developer (Journeyman) to provide expertise in technical design, development, implementation, and optimization of software solutions for large-scale DoD systems. This role involves programming, testing, debugging, analysis, and system enhancement, ensuring high-performing software solutions that align with national security objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop detailed technical designs and software solutions using existing and emerging technology platforms.
- Design, code, test, debug, and implement software applications to support DoD systems.
- Conduct organizational needs assessments, aligning software development initiatives with operational goals.
- Review, analyze, and modify programming systems, ensuring optimized encoding, testing, and installation for large-scale deployments.
- Maintain software performance efficiency, identifying and resolving system issues.
- Collaborate with teams to integrate secure software development methodologies into DoD infrastructure.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation for software development, system revisions, and operational improvements.
- Ensure compliance with DoD cybersecurity policies, security standards, and risk management frameworks.
Required Qualifications:
- Active Secret Clearance: TS preferred.
- Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field OR equivalent work experience.
- Experience:
- 4 years’ experience with a master’s degree or higher OR
- 2 years’ experience with a Doctorate Degree OR
- 6 years’ experience with a bachelor’s degree OR
- 8 years’ experience with an associate’s degree.
- Skills:
- Strong proficiency in software development, programming languages, debugging, and testing methodologies.
- Ability to design and modify large-scale DoD software systems, ensuring efficiency and security.
- Understanding of network security, encryption protocols, and secure coding best practices.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with classified defense software systems and military cybersecurity operations.
- Familiarity with cloud-based software solutions (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government).
- Certifications such as Security+, CISSP, AWS Certified Developer, or DoD-approved software engineering credentials.
Top Skills
What We Do
Competitive Range is a Management Consulting and Technology Solutions consultancy that provides acquisition, program management, and IT engineering.
OUR VISION
It is our vision to be the standard against which mission support and technology partners are measured in ethics and value added outcomes.
OUR MISSION
We are highly ethical, operationally agile, and aggressively committed to delivering on customer objectives. These “rules of engagement” delineate us from our competitors. They define the mechanics of our success, and the longevity thereof.
OUR BRAND
The vision for Competitive Range was formed over many years of dedicated service alongside the extraordinary men and women of the USAF 375th Civil Engineering Squadron.
We are committed to providing our customers with a value added engagement experience.
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