Key skills
AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityDockerKubernetesLinuxPythonMATLABBashGitJiraConfluenceCI/CDCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Support on-site software installations, upgrades, and patch validation.
- Assist in system checkout and verification events.
- Validate environment parity between lab and field deployments.
- Reproduce field defects within lab environments for root cause analysis.
- Capture logs, telemetry, and system state data to support diagnostics.
- Support cybersecurity hardening and compliance validation efforts.
- Collaborate closely with Integration & Test teams in St. Louis.
- Validate release packages prior to deployment.
- Ensure configuration consistency across lab and operational environments.
- Support continuous improvement of deployment automation and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Define test strategies, plans, procedures, and acceptance criteria for component, integration, and system-level testing.
- Design and execute verification & validation activities (functional, interface, performance, reliability, regression).
- Analyze test results, perform root cause analyses, and recommend corrective actions.
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines, working closely with software developers, system architects, and test engineers to validate end-to-end functionality and mission effectiveness.
- Lead integration of hardware, software, and mission systems in secure DoD environments, ensuring interoperability, performance, and mission assurance.
- Apply modern DevSecOps practices—including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, containerized deployments, and infrastructure as code—to streamline integration and test activities.
- Stand up, configure, and maintain secure test environments leveraging cloud-native and virtualized resources (e.g., AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-premise equivalents).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Active Top Secret US Security clearance
- 3+ years of experience in software system integration and test
- 3+ years of experience with the DevSecOps
- 3+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer, leading systems engineering, integration and test activities
- Practical experience with requirements decomposition, requirements tracing and configuration management
- Experience writing test plans and procedures and executing system-level integration and verification
- Familiar with standard engineering tools such as requirements management (DOORS or similar), MBSE (MSOSA/Cameo or similar), test management, and common collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Git)
- Proficient with one or more scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Matlab) for test automation and data analysis
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of networking fundamentals
- Experience with configuration management tools
- Exposure to Linux and Windows
- Real-time software development experience, but not require
- Experience with mission systems, avionics, command & control architectures, embedded systems, sensor systems, or related defense/space programs.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud
- Cyber Security
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Python
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings accounts
- Retirement savings plans
- Life and disability insurance programs
- Paid time off