Customer Description

Our customer is an Intelligence Agency (IA) delivering world-class geospatial intelligence providing a decisive advantage to policymakers, war-fighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. The customer enables all these critical actions and shapes decisions impacting our world through the indispensable discipline of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT). Our customer is a unique combination of intelligence and combat support agency. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate, and actionable GEOINT. This IA enables the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and the Department of Defense (DOD) to fulfill the President’s national security priorities to protect the nation. Although GEOINT is the most critical data within this agency, all data that is produced, collected, and stored plays a supportive role in the day-to-day operations of our customer.

Program Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a large GEOINT based contract used for search and dissemination across the Intel Community. Hosted in AWS, this system is a set of computer services that allows users to search and discover different types of GEOINT data that comes from different sources, whether it's internal to this Intel Agency or from other external sources. The system is comprised of various components that will be supported by two task orders. One of the task orders is to maintain all the existing services, the compute, the software and various components that allow the system to function. The second task order is an engineering and architecture task order that provides software engineering, devops and site reliability services to help modernize and fast-track the future of the overall system.

Team Description

Blackspoke is a trusted member of a larger team of strategic partners. This contract was just awarded and has the full 5-year contract life remaining. Work is to be performed onsite in Government and Contractor SCIF space in Springfield, VA and Arnold, MO.

Job Description

The Software Developer designs, develops, evaluates, plans and tests software programs and applications.

• Conducts requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies
• Conducts planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations
• Develops solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology and mentor Junior Engineers in developing these skill sets
• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs
• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities
• Assists with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments
• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design
• Ability to solve complex problems, lead a team(s) and work independently and proactively under Senior Systems Engineer supervision
• Creates sustainable software applications – work is estimated accurately, branching strategies are efficient, code repos are maintained, etc.
• Works as a member of an agile scrum team and participates in regular agile ceremonies applying scrum methodologies – daily stand up, planning, sprint reviews, demos, retrospectives
• Implements requirements from the product backlog
• Assists in writing backlog requirements/user stories
• Utilizes a modern DevSecOps approach in building software applications
• Develop and modify applications, software, services, utilities, interfaces, and IT systems that support systems and analysts

Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with CI Poly
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering or any related field/major (or 6 additional years of experience in information technology) with 4 years' experience
• Use packages as in BASH, CSS, DOS_BATCH, HTML, Java, JavaScript, PHP, PYTHON, SQL, XML, and Indexing/Search Technologies required

Desired Core Skills:

• Technical certification Network , Security , Oracle or specializing in Software Development, or Cloud Computing

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. Individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans or veterans with service-connected disabilities, are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance applying outside of the online application, please contact recruiting@blackspoke.com for more information.