Junior Software Engineer

Are you ready for a rewarding career challenge?

Unleash your potential at Leidos, where we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

Are you an experienced Junior Software Engineer looking for a new challenge? Join our team supporting the cutting-edge Cyber TRIDENT Program and make an impact by guiding the definition, implementation, and delivery of capability focused on Cyber Training systems. As a key player in our team, you will leverage your skills and learn new skills working in an agile software development environment.  Don't miss the opportunity to take your career to the next level and be part of an innovative and dynamic environment. Apply now!

Your greatest work is ahead!

The Mission
The Leidos National Security Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for National Security include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions. From scanning for illicit material at ports and borders to predicting future events and instability up to five years in advance, our products help customers make the world safer. To explore and learn more, click here!

Are you ready to join a team dedicated to a mission? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career - share your resume with us today!

We are in search of talented Software Engineers to join our dynamic team in Orlando, FL. This opportunity will provide professional growth that is singularly focused on providing world class solutions to our customers in an exciting, collaborative, and inclusive environment. You will be challenged and provided a tremendous opportunity to expand your skills in a customer-facing, fast-paced, and rewarding environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Works from established requirements and uses established software engineering processes to develop software systems, subsystems, and system enhancements.
• Completes detailed design and development work independently for individual software components and integrates the developed products together individually and/or at the subsystem level.
• Follows software engineering standards and assists engineers in software system or subsystem development and documentation efforts.
• Adheres to schedules and stays within established budgets.
• All aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding, and automated testing within an Agile and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery model.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug mission critical software source code using modern software development languages and tools, such as Java.
• Design and execute maintainable code that matches specification.
• Create automated tests leveraging a continuous integration process.
• Implement Agile development tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket/Git to manage work and collaborate with your teams.
• Create and update relevant documentation and specifications for design, development and testing.
• Identify potential roadblocks and develop software solutions where the solution is not always well defined but always considers the customer first.
• Work to improve performance metrics through critical planning and execution of development tasks.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant field and 1+ years of related experience.  Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Hands-on experience with Java/C++ and object-oriented programming.
• Experience with Java, Python, JavaScript, Bash and other languages
• Ability to apply software development process fundamentals in an Agile environment.
• Strong, self-motivated desire to learn new programming languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques.
• Ability to complete tasking independently with minimal direct supervision.
• Ability to work and collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplined engineering team.
• Experience with Agile and DevSecOps concepts and best practices.
• Ability to support program execution in classified environments.
• Excellent problem solving and analysis skills.
• Self-starter that can work independently while possessing the communication skills to work effectively with software development teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• US Citizen and the ability to obtain and/or maintain SECRET or higher security clearance is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Trello, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins, GitLab
• Experience working in a Linux environment.
• Experience with cloud computing virtualization platforms like VMware vSphere
• Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet or similar technologies
• Experience with data monitoring platform tool, such as Grafana
• Experience with data instrumentation tool, such as Metabase
• Familiarity with basic web technologies including HTML, CSS, XML, REST, JSON, SOAP, and WSDL
• Familiarity with web application technologies, such as Apache Tomcat, JBoss, etc.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.