Principal Software & Integration Engineer

Principal Software & Integration Engineer

Caribou Thunder

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Requisition#: NC10001

Date Posted: 7/12/2023

Salary: $100K-$120K

Security Clearance: Secret with the ability to obtain TS

Education: Bachelor’s degree

Experience: 5 years

(3 years with a Master’s degree)

Position Summary

Caribou Thunder is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Software & Integration Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will play a key role in supporting all aspects of the software engineering lifecycle, with a focus on automated software testing, hardware/software integration, systems administration, and modeling and simulation software development. Your primary responsibility will be developing and coding unit test cases in coordination with the Software Integration Test Lead.

If you are a highly skilled and motivated Principal Software & Integration Engineer looking for an exciting opportunity, we encourage you to apply. Join our team at Caribou Thunder and contribute to the advancement of software engineering practices and integration solutions for our complex defense systems.

Complete Description

As a Principal Software & Integration Engineer, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, such as Systems Engineering, Test Automation, DevSecOps, and Systems Test, within an agile software development environment.

• Deploy and manually test the system to ensure the effectiveness of automated tests.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate new features into the system.
• Lead the integration team, consisting of members from various scrum teams.
• Understand and demonstrate system use cases using the deployed software.
• Maintain and manage the configuration of our operational system.
• Monitor resource usage on real and virtual computers.
• Drive discussions to upgrade computing resources for the operational system.
• Identify opportunities for additional test automation and advocate for their implementation.
• Monitor and improve deployment procedures to automate and enhance reliability.
• Serve as the point of contact for the test team to validate bug reports.
• Provide training and support to the user community, including testers and technical writers.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving complex HW/SW integration problems.
• Experience providing test services and ensuring process compliance.
• Knowledge of software development deliverables and processes.
• Familiarity with embedded systems design and implementation.
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development (TDD).
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration Tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI).
• Familiarity with Code Coverage Tools (e.g., SonarQube, Clover, JUnit).
• Experience with Agile software methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Knowledge of Radar Systems.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with Java programming.
• Experience with Radar communications.
• Extensive integration experience.
• Previous in-depth domain knowledge of program software design and code.
• Proficiency with DevOps technologies, including Jenkins, Fortify, Ansible, and the Atlassian suite.
• Experience in complete software development lifecycle.
• Experience with software development in real-time embedded systems for military applications.
• Understanding of application and embedded software integration procedures.
• Experience with software test automation at multiple requirement levels.
• Experience with automated test frameworks (e.g., Cucumber, Google Test, TestComplete).
• Cloud and container experience (e.g., Docker or Kubernetes).
• Advanced level understanding of application and embedded software integration procedures.
• Experience with VMWare infrastructure.

Company Description

Caribou Thunder, LLC is a Woman Owned, HUBZone Certified, Native American Owned, SBA and SDB Certified global engineering services company, incorporated in 2006.

Caribou Thunder is a Global Service Provider supporting a wide variety of DoD, Space, and Intelligence programs with consistent growth since inception to over 100 associates and $10M in annual sales with solid performance in 35 states across the U.S. and 22 countries around the world. Caribou Thunder, LLC is an established Defense contractor with nearly 20 years of experience delivering engineering services worldwide. We offer industry leading salaries, flexible work life balance, full range of benefits (career development and mentoring, PTO, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401k match). Caribou Thunder, LLC offers meaningful career opportunities within a true team-based environment, where each and every employee matters, contributing to a higher goal supporting National Security programs. 

Caribou Thunder, LLC is committed to hiring and maintaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. United States citizenship is a requirement for all positions.

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