· Responsible for leading the creation of a technology framework and providing technical leadership to support cloud computing and automation efforts, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms designed to support processing highly classified data.
Essential Job Functions:
Provide architectural leadership and best practices to cloud-based DevOps application development teams.
Responsible for ensuring that critical applications are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery.
Strong leadership and team-building skills, and must be able to collaborate effectively with a group of high performing individuals.
Support development and review of the full range of documentation and products required by DoDI 5000.02.
Assist with execution of the USAF Airworthiness process per MIL-HDBK-516 and the AF Life-Cycle Systems Engineering (LCSE) and Operational Safety, Suitability, and Effectiveness (OSS&E) processes as prescribed by AFMCI 63-1201.
Support implementation of Air Force Integrity Programs.
Support requirements development, allocation, and verification.
Support review and evaluation of weapon system design, analyses, and verification documentation and reports.
Gather and develop technical and business data necessary to build and, as required, present program briefs.
Support program meetings, working groups, and technical and business reviews as needed.
Analyze equipment and software performance deficiencies and make recommendations for corrective actions.
Support development of contract and documentation changes and updates.
Support source selections in a technical advisory role as requested.
Required Skills:
Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.
Must have bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related subject.
Have least 10 years’ experience in designing large and complex IT operations in large organizations, research environments or academic environments.
TS/SCI clearance is required.
Desired Skills:
A master’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related subject is highly desired.
Description: The DCS Air & Space Technology (AST) Sector is seeking a Modeling and Simulation Software Engineer to support extensive high visibility Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (MS&A) efforts. Are you interested in working in a high-tech company on cutting edge technology to help solve national security problems? Do you want to be challenged every day supporting world class research and development? If so, DCS may be the place for you! DCS is an employee-owned organization known for creating agile technology solutions across the U.S. Defense, Aerospace, Human Factors, and Security markets.
As a member of our team, you will support research and development in Dayton, Ohio, having opportunities to work in a dynamic environment, simulation integration experts, develop, integrate, sustain, and test modeling, simulation, software products for DoD platforms and experiments, and experienced military Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
Essential Job Functions:
Design, develop, sustain, and integrate software in a government DevSecOps environment on government-owned systems in support of modeling & simulation and operational/experimental systems.
Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and triage; assist government teams with workload prioritization.
Perform software integration and installation at government facilities (may require travel).
Produce software test plans, execute V&V and lifecycle testing, and generate test reports of the applications developed.
Support R&D activities to integrate advanced models, simulations, and hardware into legacy and new platforms (JSE, VATS, F‑16 examples).
Required Skills:
Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.
Bachelor of Science degree or higher in related engineering or science discipline.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret clearance.
5–10 years (Journeyman) or 10+ years (Senior) professional software development experience.
Using and developing in the Joint Simulation Environment (JSE).
Hands-on with DevSecOps practices and toolchains (CI/CD, automated testing, git, Visual Studio, container tooling).
Experience with containers and orchestration: Docker, podman, helm charts, Kubernetes/Openshift.
Familiarity with Windows and Red Hat Linux environments and VMware administration.
Experience integrating modeling & simulation software into larger systems preferred.
Strong test planning, V&V and documentation skills.
Demonstrated expert level proficiency in C++ and object-oriented analysis and design.
Excellent written and oral communications skills.
Desired Skills:
Experience in AFSIM, NGTS, or other simulations.
Experience using EAAGLEs Framework.
Experience developing in OpenGL or OSG.
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