Software Developer (Springfield, VA)

Job Description

Job DescriptionOpportunity Summary
Join LCE where you will provide software development support to our National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) customer. You will develop, create, maintain, and write/code new (or modify existing) computer applications, software, or specialized utility programs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain development environment in support of SWAP tool development and maintenance.
• Provide database design for development and maintenance of SWAP.
• Provide web application design, development and maintenance for SWAP.
• Develop and provide web/portal development environment administration in support of SWAP and request approval for software download, installation, and configuration on the development team workstations.
• Deliver and sustain SWAP tool features that are identified during program increment-planning events.
• Deploy automated application security testing tools and make users aware of how to make the most of application security features.
• Support efforts to integrate software assurance tools into automated testing/automated pipeline methodologies.
• Evaluate commercial products for use and integration into the agency's software assurance.
• Assist in development of policies and guidance regarding software assurance.
• Support automated evaluation tools as they pertain to software assurance.
• Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan development of new application or modification of existing application.
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Apply coding and testing standards, apply security testing tools including "'fuzzing " static-analysis code scanning tools, and conduct code reviews.
• Apply secure code documentation.
• Capture security controls used during requirements phase to integrate security within process to identify key security objectives and to maximize software security while minimizing disruption to plans and schedules.
• Consult with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software.
• Correct errors by making appropriate changes and rechecking program to ensure desired results produced.
• Identify security implications and apply methodologies within centralized and decentralized environments across enterprise computer systems in software development.
• Identify security issues around steady state operation and management of software and incorporate security measures that must be taken when product reaches end of life.
• Perform secure programming and identify potential flaws in codes to mitigate vulnerabilities.

Security Clearance Requirements

• U.S. citizenship
• Active U.S. DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in technical discipline
• IAT Lvl 2 compliant certification (e.g., Security+) for intermediate level or IAM Lvl 2 (e.g., Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)) for senior level
• Skill in conducting vulnerability scans and recognizing vulnerabilities in security systems.
• Skill in creating and utilizing mathematical or statistical models.
• Skill in creating programs that validate and process multiple inputs including command line arguments, environmental variables, and input streams.
• Skill in designing countermeasures to identify security risks. S0031: Skill in developing and applying security system access controls.
• Skill in discerning protection needs (i.e., security controls) of information systems and networks.
• Skill in writing code in currently supported programming language (e.g., Java, C++).
• Skill in using code analysis tools.
• Skill to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
• Ability to tailor code analysis for application-specific concerns.
• Ability to develop secure software according to secure software deployment methodologies, tools, and practices.