Software Engineer, Senior GBS.094

About the position

Torch Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer Senior located at Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex in Montgomery, AL, within the AFLCMC/GB Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate (BES), to support Integrated Logistics System- Supply (ILS S). The ILS-S is comprised of the following supply applications used at the base/warfighter level: Standard Base Supply System (SBSS), Air Force Supply Centralized Database (AFSCDB), and the Enterprise Solution - Supply (ES-S). ILS-S supports over 18,000 supply customers and operates as an integral part of Air Force Supply Chain Management and Chief Financial Officer financial accountability. The ILS-S provides direct supply support to Active, Guard and Reserve forces anywhere in the world in support of peacetime and wartime operations for all Air Force weapon systems such as F-35, F22, F-15, F-16, A-10, C-130, C-17, C-5, etc.

Responsibilities

• Preparing/creating, reviewing, and analyzing all types of documentation for planning, requirements, design, coding, support, and test.
• Source code, configuration files and engineering resolution support.
• Determining operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, and code comments.
• Determining and designing system specifications, and standards, and programming/coding and installing solutions.
• Improving operations by conducting systems and process analysis plus recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Advising (licensed) software procurements by researching, analyzing, comparing, and documenting results of vendors and products, which may include installation, configuration and testing (of products).
• Providing information and recommendations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service related issues.
• Accomplishing engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Developing software solutions by studying requirements/user stories, user/system/data needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following an Agile software development lifecycle.
• Evaluating software technologies such as containerization and the use of Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, configuration as code, micro services, standard application program interfaces (API), continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and maximizing the automation of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Ensuring the rigorous application of information security/cybersecurity policies, principles, and practices to the delivery of application software services.

Requirements

• Master's or Doctorate Degree in a related field and ten years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five years of which must be in the DoD.
• OR, bachelor's degree in a related field and 12 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five of which must be in the DoD.
• OR, 15 years of directly related experience with proper certifications eight of which must be in the DoD.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and hold an active DoD Security Clearance (Secret). Must maintain clearance at required level.

Nice-to-haves

• Atlassian Tool Suite
• Agile Development Methodologies
• Confluence
• BitBucket
• Information System Management Tool (ISMT)
• CompTIA Security + CE - Preferred
• Advanced Atlassian Toolset Experience
• Experience with Atlassian plugins, such as ScriptRunner or Automation for Jira
• Knowledge of Atlassian Data Center offerings, including Jira Data Center and Confluence Data Center
• Experience with EKS (Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes) and ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Familiarity with AWS services, such as Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch experience with AWS security, including IAM roles, policies, and compliance.
• Experience with other programming languages such as Python, C# or JavaScript
• Familiarity with machine learning or artificial intelligence technologies
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Previous experience working on DoD installations.

Benefits

• ESOP participation
• 401(k) match and safe-harbor contribution
• medical, dental, vision, life insurance
• short-term disability
• long-term disability
• flexible spending accounts
• Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• EAP
• education assistance
• paid time off
• holidays