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Lockheed Martin Data Analytics Engineer in Springfield, Virginia
Description: By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.
Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a full-time Software Engineer on their Kayenne Program. The Kayenne Program builds and maintains a secure, hybrid environment that facilitates high priority defense initiatives, as well as develops and deploys highly-available software applications for data ingest, interaction, and dissemination. As a Software Engineer on the Kayenne Analytics Team, you’ll work as a part of a small team that focuses on advancing and automating GEOINT tradecraft. The team has worked for several years to develop sophisticated realtime automated analytics and sensemakers built on a mostly-Java baseline. The team will continue to ingest new data sources and advance current R&D analytic capabilities while taking on the additional challenge of moving the capability through security accreditation and into a fully operational state on the larger Kayenne programs ops baseline. The Kayenne Software Engineer is expected to successfully lead the transition to ops. You will also act in the role of scrum master for the ongoing development, so a good understanding of agile software development practices and Jira are important. A small amount of control account management is also part of the role, so it is useful to have experience with planning and being able to analyze and explain variances.
Required: Must be a US Citizen; this position will require a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.
Basic Qualifications:
• Experience with agile tracking tools (JIRA, GitLab, GitHub, etc); Familiarity with agile methodologies and the ability to adapt to rapidly changing project requirements.
• Experience programming with Python, Java, JavaScript, Ansible, Bash, and/or PowerShell
• Experience with accrediting software applications for operations; including preparing security documentation, preparing security testing procedures, and/or verifying test
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance will be required to start with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly
Preference for this requisition will be given to Space Employees.
Desired Skills:
• Experience with transitioning systems from development to ops, as well as a foundational understanding of software development life cycles, DevOps tools, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD.
• Previous Scum Master experience
• Experience with Geospatial Intelligence data and systems
• Understanding of log analysis tools and techniques, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Knowledge of performance metrics, thresholds, and alerts to proactively identify and address issues
• Knowledge of application software methods to provide monitoring of system resources, status alerts, and return to health remedies
• Knowledge of application, network, and infrastructure security best practices, including secure coding principles and threat modeling
• Knowledge of common security vulnerabilities and familiarity with security automation and orchestration tools, compliance requirements and industry standards
• Familiarity AWS and containerization technologies (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and facilitating collaboration between customers, development, operations, security teams, and program leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for documenting issues, communicating with team members, and reporting to stakeholders.
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/Poly
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: Non- standard 40 hour work week as assigned by leader
Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.
As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Information Technology
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First