The Role
Onsite junior software engineer supporting USAF systems: design, develop, integrate, test, deploy, and sustain mission-critical applications. Perform secure software engineering, advanced diagnostics/Level III support, configuration management, RMF cybersecurity compliance, and collaborate with DBAs and infrastructure teams for deployment, backup/recovery, and production-readiness validation.
Summary Generated by Built In
cFocus Software seeks a Jr. Software Engineer to join our program supporting the United States Air Force. This position is onsite with the onsite location being in Ellsworth, South Dakota. This position requires a TS/SCI SSBI clearance.
Qualifications:
Duties:
Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI SSBI clearance
- B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 2+ years of Software Engineering experience
- Advanced software engineering experience supporting mission-critical enterprise applications through design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and implementing complex system modifications within controlled, configuration-managed environments.
- Strong experience with secure software development, debugging, logging, exception handling, vulnerability remediation, and security-control implementation.
- Experience designing and executing unit, integration, regression, interface, performance, security, and production-readiness testing.
- Experience integrating enterprise applications with WebSphere middleware, DB2 databases, and underlying Windows/Linux infrastructure.
- Ability to perform advanced diagnostics and code-level root cause engineering and to provide Level III escalation support.
- Experience with source control, build and release management, configuration baselines, change control, patch/update validation, and deployment verification.
- Working knowledge of RMF, Assessment and Authorization, continuous monitoring, authorization evidence, and DoD/Air Force cybersecurity compliance.
- Experience supporting backup/recovery, resilience, COOP, disaster recovery, test-data protection, and emergency corrective actions.
- Strong technical documentation, peer-review, problem-solving, stakeholder-coordination, quality-control, and communication skills.
- Active IA System Architect and Engineer (IASAE) Level I, DoD 8140 System Administrator, and 632-Intermediate
Duties:
- Analyze mission, functional, technical, cybersecurity, interface, and sustainment requirements and translate them into implementable software designs and engineering changes.
- Design, develop, modify, integrate, debug, and sustain FMWF application components and associated services in accordance with approved technical baselines.
- Evaluate requested system modifications, identify dependencies and risks, develop corrective engineering solutions, and maintain usability within evolving technical environments.
- Perform secure software engineering and implement applicable security controls, least-privilege practices, auditability, error handling, data protection, and compliance requirements.
- Maintain controlled development and test environments, including configuration management, patch validation, test data management, and secure backup of development data.
- Develop and execute unit, integration, regression, interface, performance, security, and deployment-validation testing.
- Conduct engineering validation of patches, updates, enhancements, and modifications before production release and verify production readiness.
- Validate post-deployment functionality and performance; analyze failures and implement sustainable corrective actions.
- Support cross-stack integration among the application, WebSphere middleware, DB2 databases, Windows/Linux systems, Active Directory, virtualization, storage, and security tooling.
- Collaborate with database administrators on schemas, queries, data integrity, interfaces, migrations, performance, and recovery considerations.
- Collaborate with infrastructure engineers and system administrators on environments, service accounts, deployment dependencies, capacity, availability, patching, and configuration changes.
- Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel on RMF controls, vulnerability remediation, authorization evidence, assessment findings, and continuous-monitoring requirements.
- Provide Level III technical escalation support through advanced diagnostics, log analysis, debugging, code-level root cause analysis, and fault isolation.
- Support routine lifecycle sustainment, emergency corrective engineering, COOP, disaster recovery, and mission-continuity activities.
- Support implementation and short-term sustainment of newly deployed capabilities and transition stable solutions into operations.
- Participate in configuration reviews, readiness reviews, engineering change management, technical reviews, and QASP performance activities.
- Develop and maintain source code, build/deployment materials, interface documentation, design records, test plans/results, release notes, configuration records, and operating procedures under version control.
Skills Required
- Active TS/SCI SSBI clearance
- B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 2+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience supporting mission-critical enterprise applications through design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment
- Experience analyzing and implementing complex system modifications in controlled, configuration-managed environments
- Strong experience with secure software development, debugging, logging, exception handling, vulnerability remediation, and security-control implementation
- Experience designing and executing unit, integration, regression, interface, performance, security, and production-readiness testing
- Experience integrating enterprise applications with WebSphere middleware and DB2 databases on Windows/Linux infrastructure
- Ability to perform advanced diagnostics, code-level root cause analysis, and provide Level III escalation support
- Experience with source control, build and release management, configuration baselines, change control, patch/update validation, and deployment verification
- Working knowledge of RMF, Assessment and Authorization, continuous monitoring, authorization evidence, and DoD/Air Force cybersecurity compliance
- Experience supporting backup/recovery, resilience, COOP, disaster recovery, and test-data protection
- Strong technical documentation, peer-review, problem-solving, stakeholder coordination, quality-control, and communication skills
- Active IA System Architect and Engineer (IASAE) Level I, DoD 8140 System Administrator, and 632-Intermediate
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The Company
What We Do
Established in 2006, cFocus Software automates FedRAMP compliance and develops government chatbots for the Azure Government Cloud, Office 365, and SharePoint. cFocus Software is the exclusive vendor of ATO (Authority To Operate) as a Service™, which automates FedRAMP compliance for the Azure Government Cloud and Office 365. Contact Us for a demo of ATO as a Service™ or a FREE government chatbot proof of concept project today!
