Software Systems Engineer (Experienced)

Posting 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

$86,300 - $166,800

*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 looking for challenging and impactful work that contributes to security, peace and freedom worldwide?

If so, Sandia National Laboratories, is seeking a motivated Software Systems Engineer to join our team with a role focused on Implementing reusable technical solutions for the Corporate Web Design and Development department. We are looking for a candidate with strong application development skills and experience, with the ability to think broadly and deeply in the implementation of web-based solutions to fill our Software Systems Engineer position.

The selected applicant can be a virtual worker located in any U.S. State or District of Columbia. Regular or periodic travel to your assigned work location may be required.

On any given day you may be called upon to:

• Analyze user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
• Use judgment to suggest solutions that balance customer needs, business constraints, and technological realities.
• Plan and implement automated and continuous software deployments.
• Mature and streamline DevOps pipelines, policies, and processes.
• Know the newest technologies, industry trends and standard methodologies.
• Develop new applications and improvements to meet emerging business needs.

Qualifications We Require

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant degree field plus five (5) or more years of experience, or equivalent.
• Ability to acquire and maintain a required DOE Q security clearance

Qualifications We Desire

• Extensive skills in developing web applications, including both back-end and front-end web development experience
• Experience working with content management systems such as WordPress or Drupal
• Experience developing WordPress themes, WordPress plugins, and WordPress Gutenberg front end components using ReactJS
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and CSS pre-processors (e.g., Sass or Less)
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as PHP, C#, C++, Java along with related object-oriented development principles.
• Experience with web-based development patterns, such as MVC, with understanding of multi-tier systems
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, or Vue.js)
• Knowledge of configuration management practices and experience using Git branching/merging strategies within a team environment
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working with Linux based web server administration and configuration
• Experience using Docker
• Experience working in cloud-based environments such as AWS or Microsoft Azure
• Understanding of web application security standard methodologies
• Understanding of web accessibility standards
• Ability to conduct methodical assessments of code designed to identify bugs and to ensure code quality
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative and interdisciplinary team environment
• Experience leading technical projects, or experience with agile project execution
• Understanding of SDLC (software development life cycle)
• Understanding of software testing procedures and how to apply them to project work
• Ability to balance competing demands of quality, scope, and schedule and to set customer expectations accordingly.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to be self-directed on technical projects

About Our Team

We are Sandia's go-to team for delivering contemporary, innovative, and awesome information solutions that meet our customers' and users' needs and expectations, and we have fun doing it. We cultivate, expand, and enrich Sandia's information space by providing a high-quality, cost-effective, uniform web presence to the corporation, and we help teams across Sandia use the web to communicate to the Labs and to the rest of the world. Our team includes professional web designers, software engineers, computer scientists, business systems analysts, information management professionals, and project managers.

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

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. 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.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

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.