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Senior Cloud Software Engineer

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KBR has an immediate need for an energetic and dynamic Senior Cloud Software Engineer at its Sioux Falls, SD location. KBR is the primary contractor to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for performing work at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center near Sioux Falls. The multidisciplinary staff, in partnership with NASA and in support of the Landsat project uses their unique expertise in remote sensing-based science and technologies to carry out research, data acquisition, information access and management and archive preservation to provide satellite ground imagery data to users and science organizations around the world. This effort represents the world's longest continuously acquired collection of space-based moderate-resolution land remote sensing data with over four decades of imagery.

Core Responsibilities:

The Senior Cloud Software Engineer is responsible for all aspects of designing, developing, and maintaining software products throughout the development lifecycle on the Landsat project. Responsibilities include:

• Design and Develop software components in the cloud to perform processing, archival, and distribution of Landsat products

• Communicate and coordinate activities and technical status with the Systems Engineer, Software Engineers, and other Project team members, as appropriate

• Analyze and interpret technical data using statistical and mathematical methods and techniques

• Ensure all software activities are conducted in accordance with the Software Development Life Cycle

• Analyze system and user requirements to define software requirements

• Identify software design and development tasks and provide an estimate for the work

• Perform and document preliminary and detailed design of components making up a software product

• Develop and conduct unit, functional, and regression testing

• Document the testing effort through generation of test plans, procedures, and reports

• Respond to and resolve software discrepancies against documented requirements

• Lead code peer reviews

• Develop and update software pipelines to build, test, and deliver software components

• Develop infrastructure as code to perform software deployments

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.Experience: 8+ years of related experience in a Software Engineering environment is desired. Experience with data ingest, image processing, satellite ground systems and/or cloud computing are a plus.

Required Skills:

• The candidate must have previous 3 years US residency

• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills

• 4+ years experience with Python

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team

• Knowledge of software engineering methodology

• Relational database experience, Postgres is a plus

• Unix/Linux experience

• Experience with change management tools such as Git, GitHub, or GitLab

Desired Skills:

• Master’s degree in degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

• Image processing experience

• 4+ years experience with C/C++

• Experience with AWS Cloud Service especially S3, EC2, EKS, ECR, and Lambda

• Experience with K8s, Docker, and containerization

• Experience with CI/CD

• Experience with Terraform and Cloudformation

Candidates must have strong technical abilities, excellent communication skills, and a teamwork emphasis. Candidates must also be able to integrate into a highly-skilled Information Technology Team.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Three years of continuous residency in the US for issuance of a Government Security credential

• The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a national agency check and background investigation after hire to obtain a badge for government facility access and user accounts.

  KBR partners with several other companies to fulfill its requirements as a government contractor. The selected subcontracting companies align their benefits as closely as possible to those of KBR.

  KBR Benefits ​

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.​

Click here to learn more: KBR Benefits (https://careers.kbr.com/us/en/kbr-benefits?)

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KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.