Software Engineer Contractor Jobs in Augusta, GA

This position is part of a very agile team of systems and software engineers who will analyze existing capabilities as well as design and develop new solutions that will integrate with other products within the organization and across the agency baseline. Working in a dynamic and agile environment, systems engineers will capture how capabilities work, determine the use cases they satisfy, perform testing and validation, and provide artifacts required to make software development successful. Software developers will work within an existing CI/CD pipeline, performing back-end, UI, and/or full-stack development to create capabilities that perform geolocation data processing at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a high-performing software development team in an agile, DevOps environment
• Analyze capabilities of existing products to develop enhancements primarily using Python
• Perform development and integration of multiple user interfaces and/or numerous services for software that performs data processing at scale
• Conduct development, testing, validation, deployment, maintenance, and Tier 3 support for operational software
• Design and implement software solutions that can be integrated with core services and across new baselines
• Apply accepted agile software development practices to test and document the code base

Other Responsibilities:

• Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.
• Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.
• Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and compliant work environment, Amentum is a drug-free workplace and requires all personnel to comply with company drug and alcohol policies as a condition of employment. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the drug screening process. Please note that this may include pre-hire screening for marijuana, as well as other federally controlled substances due to Amentum's role as a federal contractor and trusted partner to the US Government.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Ability to work collaboratively in a high-performing, fast-paced, CI/CD environment
• Experience developing back-end services in Python
• Experience writing web user interfaces using modern Java, Javascript, and/or HTML
• Experience with Active MQ, Rest, NoSQL and/or elastic databases
• Experience validating capabilities against requirements, writing and executing test cases, and capturing test results
• Experience working with the Atlassian tool suite to track and maintain requirements (i.e., JIRA & Confluence)
• Experience developing in Linux

Clearance Required:

• TS//SCI with poly

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• 4 years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree

Minimum Years of Experience:

• 7 years' experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required

Preferred:

• Experience working with dynamic and/or interactive map software