What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Developer position at Orbis Ops?
ORBIS is looking for a software developer for our mission-focused customer in Annapolis Junction, MD. The Software Developer shall be responsible for developing rapid experimental prototypes of particular capabilities associated with the improvement and modernization of metrics and monitoring capabilities within the organization. Tasking shall also include demonstrations to validate concepts and to prove operational capability and scalability.
What you'll be doing:
Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
Debug existing software and correct defects
Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
Write or review software and system documentation
Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
Software development using languages such as C, C , Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, etc.
Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project
Design and development of relational and non-relational database applications
Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
Develop and execute test procedures for software components
Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards and conferring with users or system engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem areas
Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design decisions
Software development using continuous integration practices
Development of event driven or data driven analytics
Development of cloud-based solutions and technologies
Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints. Perform quality control on team products
Recommend and implement suggestions for improving documentation and software development process standards.
Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces
Coordinate software installation on a system and monitor performance to ensure operational specifications are met
Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects
Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams
Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering
Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software
Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance
What you'll need:
Required Skills/Abilities
- Must be authorized to work in the US
- Active TS/SCI w/ appropriate level Polygraph required
- Experience using the Linux CLI
- Experience developing scripts using Bash/Python
- Experience developing with multiple high level programming languages in a Linux environment
- Experience with metrics collection, monitoring, and alerting concepts, best practices, and tools
- Experience with software frameworks used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing big data such as Elastic Stack, Splunk, and Prometheus
- Experience developing with messaging frameworks such as Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ
Education and Experience
- Minimum of 3 years of experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university
Desired Skills/Abilities
- Experience with SQL technologies such as MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
- Experience with Key/Value and Time-series databases such as OpenTSDB
- Experience designing, implementing, and consuming REST/and or gRPC interfaces
- Experience with CI/CD concepts, principles, methodologies, and tools such as GitLab CI
Orbis Operations is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
