Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Zolon is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide comprehensive software engineering support for quarterly software baseline deployments, including new capabilities, adaptive maintenance, and hardware recapitalization. This role ensures the complexity of mission-critical systems is effectively managed through systematic engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply a structured engineering approach to system and software design to support mission-critical operations.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Document and demonstrate solutions through documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clean, well-structured code.
• Develop software solutions by analyzing information needs, system workflows, data usage, and operational processes, and by identifying problem areas.
• Tailor and deploy software tools, processes, and performance metrics as required.
• Provide technical information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Automate tasks using appropriate tools and scripting languages.
• Develop architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, and API-centric.
• Provide software design recommendations to the Program Manager and Chief Software Engineer.
• Coordinate software development activities across product lines.
• Ensure product line software development adheres to industry standards and SEI best practices.
• Assist the Product Line Program Manager in establishing and tracking software-related metrics.
• Report software risks to the Chief Systems Engineer and Chief Software Engineer through the ERB.
• Ensure software is properly documented and maintained under Configuration Management (CM).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related STEM field.
• Senior-level experience deploying microservices into cloud environments.
• Senior-level experience using software development tools to estimate function points, assess complexity, and develop virtual machines and cloud environments.
• Proven senior-level experience with successful software deployments.

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related STEM field.
• Senior-level experience designing, maintaining, and recapitalizing IT systems.
• Expertise in refactoring, containerization, and hosting applications on a Linux platform within an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environment.
• Demonstrated experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes, tools, and languages.