Halogen Engineering Group, Inc - SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Linux - 7+ yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly clearance is required - ID - 536

Software Engineer is needed in Fort George G Meade, United States.

Client: Halogen Engineering Group, Inc

Location: Fort George G Meade, MD, us

Contract: Contract

Job Description

Halogen Engineering is seeking a Software Engineer to develop, sustain, integrate, and troubleshoot the GHOSTGEM software suite. The role involves designing, coding, testing, deploying, documenting, maintaining, and enhancing complex software systems based on documented requirements.

The Software Engineer will work independently or as part of a team to develop processing-intensive analytics, algorithms, large-scale data applications, real-time systems, business information systems, data repositories, data transport services, and software monitoring solutions. Responsibilities include resolving software defects, reviewing code and test results, integrating COTS, FOSS, GOTS, and open-source technologies, and supporting system and software requirements analysis.

The role also includes collaborating with system and hardware engineers, supporting software installation and operational monitoring, improving development processes and documentation, and contributing to hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, and system design decisions. Depending on experience, the engineer may serve as a technical or team lead and oversee software development teams.

Development practices may include Agile methodologies, continuous integration, configuration management, containerization, cloud technologies, event-driven and data-driven analytics, database application development, and the design of complex algorithms subject to strict timing, resource, and interface constraints.

Requirements

Required Skills and Technical Experience

• Minimum of seven years of software engineering experience, or equivalent experience based on the education alternatives below.
• Experience using the Linux command-line interface and Linux tools.
• Experience developing Bash and Python scripts, including Unix shell scripting.
• Recent Java software development experience, including Java development with Eclipse and J2EE applications.
• Recent experience with the Spring Framework, including Spring Boot, Spring Data, and Spring Integration.
• Experience with SQL databases, including PostgreSQL.
• Experience with NoSQL databases, including MongoDB.
• Experience with Docker, containerd, and other containerization technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Helm chart development for deploying containerized services.
• Familiarity with messaging and queue-management frameworks, including RabbitMQ and Kafka.
• Familiarity with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools such as Bamboo and GitLab CI.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code principles and tools, including Ansible.
• Experience with Git and other source-control systems.
• Experience with Web Services implementation, configuration management, software testing, and system integration.
• Experience developing relational and non-relational database applications, data queries, analytics, and complex algorithms.
• Experience with Agile development processes and collaboration tools.
• Ability to analyze requirements, derive software designs, debug and modify existing applications, develop new features, and resolve software problem reports.
• Ability to create and review technical documentation and test procedures.
• Ability to integrate software into new or modified systems and operating environments.
• Ability to perform quality control and, as appropriate, lead or oversee software development teams.

Desired Skills

• Experience with the Atlassian tool suite, including Jira and Confluence.

Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in computer science or a related discipline plus five years of relevant software engineering experience; or
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline plus seven years of relevant software engineering experience; or
• Nine years of relevant software engineering experience without a degree.

Position Details

• Location: Fort Meade, Maryland
• Work arrangement: Onsite
• Schedule: Day shift
• Travel: Not required
• Security clearance: Current TS/SCI required
• Polygraph: Required and must be less than seven years old
• Compensation: $227,000–$241,000 annually

Compensation is based on factors including location, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, experience, contract affordability, and organizational requirements.

Benefits

• Three medical plan options, including two Platinum PPO plans with no deductible and one HSA plan with a $1,500 deductible.
• Company-paid medical premiums up to $25,000.
• CareFirst Wellness Rewards Program.
• Dental coverage with 50% of plan costs paid by the company.
• Vision coverage with 100% of plan costs paid by the company.
• 401(k) plan with a 10% company contribution, automatically vested and paid each pay period.
• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage.
• 20 paid time-off days, six federal holidays, and five floating holidays.
• Performance- and billable-hours-based bonuses.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Halogen Engineering Group provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or any other non-merit factor.