Lead Software Developer

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ 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.

At Leidos, everything we do is built on our commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our employees, and our communities. We offer a robust benefits package including competitive salaries; 401K Retirement Plan; comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage; flexible work schedule to allow for life/work balance; tuition reimbursement and more.

Are you ready to unleash your potential?

Leidos is seeking a highly qualified and specialized candidate for the Lead ​Software Developer position for the Integrated Defensive Cyber Systems Contract. This team operates in an Agile Scrum development environment and uses sound software engineering, object oriented, and functional programming principles to ensure that developed code has high quality, is maintainable, efficient, reliable, understandable, secure and fault tolerant. As a Software Developer / Supervisoryou will support the software configuration management process and understand software components and their interface requirements with other APIs and host systems (i.e., virtualized, containerized, or hardware).

This position requires someone who is proactive and passionate about ensuring the quality of software deliverables and can communicate with the development teams (including Leidos, subcontractors, and customer representatives) what is required to achieve this effectively on diverse tasks. This position is located near Lackland Air Force Base; all work is onsite.

The Mission 

The Digital Modernization Sector is focused on delivering performance-based IT services and repeatable solutions to include applying cloud-factory and aaS (as a Service) capabilities and integrating commercial products to provide a comprehensive digital engineering approach to IT transformation. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions. To explore and learn more, click here!

Must possess an active Secret clearance and ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance is required to be considered.

Innovate and create at Leidos! We have no shortage of challenging technical and research problems. Join the Leidos team and apply your talents to solve them.

Responsibilities:

• Work with engineering, security, and operations teams to maintain and/or enhance deployed mission hardware and software to meet performance and security requirements using continuous build, inspection, testing, and deployment processes.

• Apply security architecture policies and principles to meet system security objectives for confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation requirements.

• Ensure systems security measures and operations and maintenance activities are documented and updated as necessary.

• Ensure security patches meet timelines for the operational environment.

• Verify and update security documentation reflecting application/system security design features.

• Develop, test, and deploy hardware and software using continuous integration methods, processes, and tools.

• Develop performant software in resource-constrained environments.

• Perform full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing / automation, and integration.

• Select, deploy, implement, and maintain Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools, processes, and coding language and standards for developing software.

• Transition embedded and non-embedded software developed and sustained using traditional software methods into the DevSecOps environment.

• Conduct functional, connectivity, cybersecurity, and certification testing.

• Analyze and document software, hardware, or interoperability test results.

• Identify risks, vulnerabilities, and deficiencies and recommend actions and security measures to correct/mitigate them.

• Perform security reviews. Assess effectiveness of security controls and identify gaps in security architecture.

• Develop a security risk management plan. Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process and documentation.

Basic Qualifications: