CAE Simuflite Looking for Senior Cloud Software Engineer at Arlington, TX  Full Time

Role and Responsibilities

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.
• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE’s Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

What We Have to Offer:

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance
• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe
• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions
• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!

Summary

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTOR – Identifies process and product improvements and makes the necessary changes once agreed with the immediate superior. Develops units through algorithms/techniques, while documenting own work, including test reports and functional specifications for small or medium complexity systems. Participates in code reviews, identifies risks, and escalates issues when necessary. Provides timely and useful information to the project leader to assist with detailed project planning and coordination using project management methods and tools. Acts as a resource to technical staff.

This is a hands-on technical cloud computing software engineering position on the Integration Specialist team.

Software engineer will assist in the design and support of advanced cloud network solutions. Responsibilities include collaboration on design and development of cyber-secure cloud infrastructures and managing off-premise computational resources.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Drive the development of and recommend improvements to open architectures and applications, infrastructure, and cloud platforms to ensure they are best suited for Cloud deployment and consumption.
• Support the adoption of Cloud best practices and supporting technologies to enable such capabilities as DevSecOps, AI, Micro-Services.
• Support the architecture, design, development, troubleshoot, and implementation of cloud solutions
• Work closely with the Cyber Security team to ensure the applications and solutions designed and deployed are secure and compliant.
• Create opportunities for or serve as champion of creative and valuable solutions for addressing problems or improving services for our customers
• Report status on tasks and assignments, including appropriate task prioritization
• Must be able to perform effectively as part of a project “team”.
• Travel as needed to maintain existing solutions at customer sites (up to 25%)
• Generate high level designs for complex systems and review designs to provide recommendations for improvements, requiring the application of current industry design concepts and utilization of basic technical writing skills.
• Identify and evaluate appropriate technology solutions to meet customer needs including determining the extend of customization needed to an existing solution and the impact to implementing within the program cost and delivery schedule
• Effectively Interface with Customer personnel at varying organizational levels
• Must be self-motivated and expected to work independently with minimal supervision
• Create, delegate, and prioritize tasks while mentoring junior engineers in support of program goals
• Travel as needed to maintain existing solutions at customer sites.(up to 25% Travel)

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• DoD Secret Clearance (or ability to obtain one required to start)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline
• 10+ years of direct software development experience post degree, C++ preferred (7+ years with Masters Degree)
• Bachelor’s degree in technical field such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering
• 10+ years of hands on experience in a specific technology practice (Infrastructure, Network, Storage, Servers, Security, Windows, Linux, etc.) for both on premise and cloud resources
• 10+ years networking experience
• 10+ years operating system (Windows, Linux, or similar) administration and operation experience
• 5+ years virtualization (VMware, HyperV, VirtualBox, or similar) experience
• 10+ years experience with high order software languages such as C, C++, Java, Python
• 5+ years experience in container management technologies like OpenShift, AKS, EKS, Rancher, Docker
• Experience using a source code repository such as Git, BitBucket, Mercurial, or Subversion
• Experience using a defect management system such as Jira, Bugzilla or Fogbugz
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Experience briefing technical topics to various audiences
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Preferred Skills

• Software Development and Debugging in C++
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Well refined troubleshooting skills, ability to determine the root cause of a problem and identify and resolve systemic problems.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Experience using and deploying RDMS, NoSQL, or Graph databases
• Experience working with service-based architectures and Web APIs
• Experience with HTML, HTML5, CSS, XML, XSLT, and JSON.
• Experience with administration of CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Experience with writing Linux bash scripts
• Experience with one or more of the following: Terraform, Cloud Formation, Microsoft Bicep
• Experience managing/implementing server/clients with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Platforms and Federation Services (NetIQ, ADFS, Azure MFA, Keycloak, Red Hat SSO, Duo, SAML, etc.)
• Experience scaling applications based on user demand.
• IAT Level 2 Certification (e.g. Security +).
• Experience working and deploying on DOD networks including NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS
• Administration experience on Microsoft Enterprise CA – Cert Requests/Monitoring.
• Administration experience on Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).
• Familiarity with Information Assurance programs.
• Any of the following: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP), (ISC) Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
• CompTIA Cloud+
• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Security Responsibilities

Must complywith all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. This role requires the ability to travel to customer sites for testing events.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• This role requires the ability to maneuver body in/out of cockpits that contain sensitive equipment.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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Position Type

Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.

As captured in our overarching value “One CAE”, we’re proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.

At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.

CAE is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.