What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Norfolk, VA position at DKW Communications Inc?
Come Join Our Team! DKW Communications, Inc. (DKW) is a government contractor providing professional and technical services to various government agencies i.e. defense, law enforcement and security. We are currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our winning team. This position is on site in Norfolk, VA with very minimal telework.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Performs the work necessary to design, develop, document, test, integrate, and modify operating systems and application software for aviation training systems
- Develops, creates, troubleshoots, and modifies specialized utility programs and applications in support of real-time systems
- Performs hardware and software development planning in the incorporation of hardware and software modifications into aviation training systems
- Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
- Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
- Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
- Helps to lead other junior S/W engineers to perform and assist in duties.
Qualifications/Requirements
- U.S citizenship and an active Secret security clearance is required to start
- Bachelor’s degree in electronics or computer engineering, computer science, or equivalent
- At least 5 years of practical experience in software development associated with modeling and simulation within the training systems domains is required
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Windows and various Unix flavors, such as Linux
- Familiar with software development and diagnostic tools
- CompTIA Security CE preferred; if not held, certification must be obtained within six months of date of hire
Desired Programming Languages: C, C ; Microsoft .Net (C#, VB); Java
Desired Environments/Applications/Utilities: Visual Studio 2012 or later, SVN, Subversion, TortoiseSVN, PostgreSQL, PowerShell, Bash, RPM
Desired Operating Systems: Windows 7/10, Windows Server 2008R2/2012R2/2016R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,6,7
**All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.**
