Data Systems Integrator (Early-Mid Career)
osting Duration:This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
Salary Range:
$73,900 - $142,300
*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.
What Your Job Will Be Like:
Are you passionate about architecting test plans and implementing tests early-on in the development lifecycle? Are you excited about looking for opportunities to make improvements like preventing issues before they happen, automating, and optimizing workflows? We are seeking highly motivated, knowledgeable and dedicated Software Systems Engineers to apply programming skills and engineering practices to systems problems, software/testing frameworks, and data processing architectures for ensuring stability and reliability of remote sensing satellite ground systems. Join us to develop, test, and even deploy solutions to unique national security challenges!
This position will provide the opportunity to influence the design, implementation and progression of testing on impactful projects. You will use agile methodologies to deliver proven ground systems to keep our nation secure and decision makers informed to make time-critical decisions today and tomorrow. Using awareness of the entire system development lifecycle and working closely with technical leads to ensure proper alignment with automation goals and CI/CD practices, the candidate will design and develop improvements to the continuous integration pipeline, build and release process, and the system development workflow supporting large-scale satellite ground systems. Today, key pursuits include the Integrated Correlation and Display System (ICADS) and Universal Ground Nuclear Detonation System (NDS) Terminal (UGNT) – all within the United States Nuclear Detonation Detection System (USNDS) program.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Identify, setup, integrate, evaluate and maintain tools to build and optimize the system workflow to create reproducible and predictable environments
- Advance configuration management and testing frameworks of our software and platform code
- Seek opportunities to automate processes as much as possible for continuous integration and continuous delivery, enabling better consistency and maintainability
- Analyze, troubleshoot, identify and solve issues to support complex testbed and system infrastructures in a classified environment that are used by multiple software development, platform development, and testing teams
- Partner with architects, developers, technical leads, and integration test teams to understand system and project-level requirements, develop vision, design solutions and deliver high-quality tested software applications while ensuring we meet customer expectations
- Help to mentor others
- Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant(s) will be required to work onsite at the Albuquerque, NM location at least 80% of the time.
- Applicants on this requisition may be interviewed by multiple organizations at Sandia National Laboratories.
Qualifications We Require:
- Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant STEM field plus one (1) year of experience; or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
- Experience in software engineering and testing practices for applications written in modern programming languages (e.g. C++, Python, Java)
- Experience developing in Unix/Linux operating environments
- Ability to obtain and maintain an active US DOE Q-level security clearance
Qualifications We Desire:
- Master's degree in relevant technical field
- Knowledge of configuration management practices
- Experience in complex, multi-language (e.g. C++, Java, Python) build system
- Experience in software design, engineering and development skills, including familiarity with modern software development practices and tools
- Analytical and problem-solving skills leading to solid experience with problem identification, root cause analysis, and implementing solutions
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative and interdisciplinary team environment, including sound technical communication
- Experience with build, automation, orchestration, virtualization, continuous integration, and continuous delivery including tools such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Docker, vSphere and CMake
- Certified in any of the following: CAST, ISTQB INCOSE, Security+ and/or RHEL
- Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python and Bash)
- Experience in practicing Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum)
- Ability to drive technical/IT strategy and solve technical problems
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Familiarity with automated verification and validation techniques and technologies
- Experience creating and running tests to assess compliance with customer requirements
- Ability to understand, assess and implement processes to meet cyber requirements for computer systems, software, and networks
- Experience participating with requirements decomposition
- Experience providing project level effort estimations
- Ability to develop and manage integrated solution roadmaps
- Experience with debug tools and techniques for analysis and data collection
- Experience in real-time processing of sensor data
- Experience using GitLab and CI/CD pipeline
- Ability to travel as needed (perhaps 1-2 times a year)
- Experience working on one or more US Government programs
- Active DOE Q-level clearance or equivalent
About Our Team:
The End-to-End Systems Development Department (6369) is a multi-disciplinary organization with a proven track record in development integration and testing, evaluation, maintainability, deployment, and ultimate decommission of large complex systems. By combining our capabilities, we play a major role in ensuring compliance to functional requirements for large, high-consequence, high-rigor, remote sensing ground systems. Our mission is to revolutionize how we take requirements through testing and deployment to effectively and efficiently modernize, optimize and automate projects and services in such a way that subsystems successfully and continuously function together as early in the design and development lifecycle as possible. Our ultimate ambition is to significantly decrease end-to-end development cycle time. Our capabilities typically include technical leadership, system engineering/architecture, software development, development environments, continuous integration & delivery, virtualization, system integration & testing, change request diagnosis/evaluation & resolution, and deployment.
About Sandia:
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:
- Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
- Extraordinary co-workers
- Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
- Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
- Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*
World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.
Security Clearance:
This position does not currently require a Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance.
Sandia will conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Furthermore, employees in New Mexico need to pass a U.S. Air Force background screen for access to Kirtland Air Force Base. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause access to be denied or terminated, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.
If hired without a clearance and it subsequently becomes necessary to obtain and maintain one for the position, or you bid on positions that require a clearance, a pre-processing background review may be conducted prior to a required federal background investigation. Applicants for a DOE security clearance need to be U.S. citizens. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Members of the workforce (MOWs) hired at Sandia who require uncleared access for greater than 179 days during their employment, are required to go through the Uncleared Personal Identity Verification (UPIV) process. Access includes physical and/or cyber (logical) access, as well as remote access to any NNSA information technology (IT) systems. UPIV requirements are not applicable to individuals who require a DOE personnel security clearance for the performance of their SNL employment or to foreign nationals. The UPIV process will include the completion of a USAccess Enrollment, SF-85 (Questionnaire for Non-Sensitive Positions) and OF-306 (Declaration of for Federal Employment). An unfavorable UPIV determination will result in immediate retrieval of the SNL issued badge, removal of cyber (logical) access and/or removal from SNL subcontract. All MOWs may appeal the unfavorable UPIV determination to DOE/NNSA immediately. If the appeal is unsuccessful, the MOW may try to go through the UPIV process one year after the decision date.
EEO:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.
Job ID: 686262