What are the responsibilities and job description for the Launch Vehicle Software Engineer position at MANTECH?
MANTECH seeks a motivated, customer-oriented Software Engineer to join our team in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
This position will be supporting the USSF 5th Space Launch Squadron, this role delivers critical capabilities across the launch lifecycle, including Systems Engineering & Integration, Acquisition & Program Management, Mission Integration, System Safety, Information Assurance, Risk Management, and Digital Engineering.
Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To
This position will be supporting the USSF 5th Space Launch Squadron, this role delivers critical capabilities across the launch lifecycle, including Systems Engineering & Integration, Acquisition & Program Management, Mission Integration, System Safety, Information Assurance, Risk Management, and Digital Engineering.
Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To
- Responsible for software web applications required to support the 5th Space Launch Squadron. Involves maintaining, extending or rewriting existing applications, or creating new applications which can be accessed from multiple groups, bases and domains.
- The Software Engineer will have knowledge of modern web development strategies and techniques to support existing projects and future application development. The work is mostly on complex projects integrating multiple systems and includes all phases of the software lifecycle.
- Provide support for team-developed applications; design and develop web or cloud-hosted applications; investigate and identify opportunities for efficiency enhancements to our software development processes and for the enterprise processes our applications support; application, server and tool administration.
- Develop and provide user and leadership training for existing or newly developed applications.
- Provide regular status updates to customer technical leads and participate in and lead agile software development methodologies.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or STEM field. 1.5 years of Software Development experience may be accepted in lieu of each 1 year of education/degree requirement.
- 7 years of experience as a Software Engineer, programmer, or software developer with 1 year DoD or Launch/Range experience.
- Development experience using the following or equivalent: HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, VueJS/Vuetify Framework, Asynchronous Programming, UX Design, Restful Framework, DevOps/DevSecOps/Agile, C# or Python.
- Experience using software development planning tools, source control tools, and task automation tools.
- CompTIA Security certification or ability to obtain certification.
- Experience in development/engineering with performing one or more of the following: Database Management with PostgreSQL, MongoDB and/or other DBMS; building Restful APIs using .NET Core or Python; WebSockets, Flask, Web Services; Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AI/ML data pipelines, Data Analysis, performance enhancement, backup/recovery, job automation.
- Experience in using and managing one or more of the following tools: CI/CD Pipelines; Git, GitLab, or GitHub; devcontainers in Visual Studio Code; Power Automate; PowerBI; Jira; Confluence; Mattermost (including administration and user management); Amazon Web Services; Nebula; Platform One.
- Certification or Familiarity with: CompTIA Cloud or AWS certification; Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) facilities, processes, providers, and operations.
- Active Secret clearance required to start
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.
- Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.
- Frequently communicates with co-workers, management and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.