Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Abacus Technology is seeking a software engineer to support full life cycle software solutions for the Technical Advisory and Assistance Services (TAAS) program at Hanscom AFB. This is a full-time position.

Responsibilities :

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs, confer with users; study systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigate problem areas, and follow the software development life cycle.
• Determine feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, proposed solutions, and time and cost constraints.
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Analyze and refine systems requirements.
• Capture security controls during the requirements phase to integrate security into the system design.
• Leverage enterprise-wide security services when designing and developing secure applications where appropriate.
• Document and demonstrate solutions by develop documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Translate systems requirements into applications prototypes.
• Plan and design systems architecture.
• Apply cybersecurity functions to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
• Determine and design applications architecture.
• Determine output media / formats.
• Design user interfaces.
• Work with customers to test applications.
• Assure software and systems security, quality, and functionality.
• Integrate hardware and software components.
• Evaluate new applications software technologies; and / or ensure the rigorous application of information security / cybersecurity policies, principles, and practices to the delivery of application software services.
• Apply secure coding and testing standards, incorporate the use of security testing tools, and conduct code reviews.
• Obtain and license software by obtaining required information from vendors, recommending purchases, testing, and approving products.
• Plan and or implement agile acquisition / SW development techniques.
• Plan and or implement DevSecOps processes and techniques for Cloud and non-cloud applications.
• Ensure that all application deliverables are compliant with Public Law 111-383, which states the general need for software assurance.
• Ensure that all application deliverables are compliant with Public Law 112- 933 requirement to develop and implement a baseline software assurance policy for the entire lifecycle of covered systems.
• Ensure that all application deliverables comply with DISA Application Security Development STIG, which includes the need for source code scanning to mitigate vulnerabilities associated with SQL injections, cross-site scripting, and buffer overflows.
• Support activities and meet the requirements of DoDI 8520.02, in order to achieve standardized, PKI-supported capabilities for biometrics, digital signatures, encryption, identification, and authentication.
• Apply and support digital engineering concepts and techniques throughout the program lifecycle, such as providing technical support to Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Provide analysis and recommendations to incorporate communications systems and Modular Open System Architectures (e.g. Open Mission Systems) on host platforms with an NC3 mission to enable NC3 modernization.

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