Remote Team Lead DevSecOps Software Engineer (supporting Pacific Standard Time)

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2022 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company’s commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for the overall Agile delivery process of a software application or service, including design, development, testing, deployment, production application support (e.g., troubleshooting) and maintenance with a focus on automation. The Lead Software Engineer shall collaborate to gather and review software requirements and user stories, provide estimates, create software design specifications, and collaborate with engineers and architects to assess and test hardware and software interactions. The Lead Software Engineer shall create and execute automated test plans and strategies utilizing business requirements and collaborate with engineers, architects, and clients to validate test environments, test data and test results, design and implement code fixes, validate outcomes against expected results and produce associated reporting.  The Lead Software Engineer shall solve configuration and environment issues.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 10+ years of overall related experience
• 5 years of experience (within the last 7 years) leading Agile DevOps engineering teams in a production environment developing systems orchestration and/or automation testing, utilizing industry standard CI/CD pipelines and modern coding languages/frameworks.
• A minimum of 3 years experience (within the last 5 years) with APIs and designing solutions to leverage interfaces to build SDN automation and orchestration capabilities, or capabilities such as dashboarding or monitoring. 
• Active DOD Secret Clearance

PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Current DevOps Engineer Certification.
• 2 years of experience working within DoD network infrastructure.
• 2 years of experience developing commercial SDN orchestration playbooks on a global scale comparable to this program.
• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering from an accredited institution or equivalent BS degree with a focus in software development.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

• Sitting for long periods
• Standing for long periods
• Ambulate throughout an office
• Ambulate between several buildings
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
• Repeatedly lift and carry weight up to 50 pounds
• Travel by land or air transportation 25-50 %

It is the policy of Empower AI to provide equal opportunity in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected class or category as may be defined by federal, state, or local laws or regulations. In addition, we affirm that all compensation, benefits, company-sponsored training, educational assistance, social, and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our firm intent to support equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in keeping with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.  Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.