2024-7668 - Empower AI : Job Details

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit .

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2022 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the companys commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Performs complex analysis, design, development, testing and debugging of computer software in support of distinct product hardware or technical devices
• Designs, develops and modifies software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design
• Designs or implements complex database or data repository interfaces/queries
• Develops or implements algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
• Develops and executes test procedures for software components
• Writes or reviews software and system documentation
• Develops software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, conferring with users or systems engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem areas
• Activities range from operating systems architecture integration and software design to selection of computer systems, languages and/or equipment
• May participate in the development of technical proposal submissions and white papers
• May direct and supervise the activity of lower level software engineers to support a specific task/project
• Provides consulting services to members of management, the professional staff, and the customer in the analysis and design of programming systems, problem-oriented languages, management systems, scientific systems, and related areas of computational projects
• Develops the planning and monitoring of the design, implementation, and checkout of programming systems, and provides technical direction in solving complex problems
• Modifies existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance
• Performs technical tasks that frequently involve customer relations
• Develops principles and procedures for accomplishing customer-programming studies, analyzing the objectives sought and the methods to be used
• Ensures quality control of all developed and modified software
• Recommends new technologies and processes for complex software projects
• Develops analytical and computational techniques for solving problems
• Develops the formulation and design of a project
• Provides technical direction, guidance, and assistance to assigned projects
• Gives advice regarding the programming and analytical phases of development and research problems
• Develops mathematical models when required, conducting original research into modeling techniques when necessary
• Serves as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 10+ years of overall related experience
• 5 years of experience (within the last 7 years) leading Agile DevSecOps engineering teams in a production environment developing systems orchestration and/or automation testing, utilizing industry standard CI/CD pipelines and modern coding languages/frameworks.
• Minimum of 3 years experience (within the last 5 years) with APIs and designing solutions to leverage interfaces to build SDN automation and orchestration capabilities, or capabilities such as dashboarding or monitoring.
• Active DOD Secret Clearance

PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Current DevOps Engineer Certification.
• 2 years of experience working within DoD network infrastructure.
• 2 years of experience working with commercial internet services providers developing SDN orchestration playbooks.
• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering from an accredited institution or equivalent BS degree with a focus in software development

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

• Sitting for long periods
• Standing for long periods
• Ambulate throughout an office
• Ambulate between several buildings
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
• Repeatedly lift and carry weight up to 50 pounds
• Travel by land or air transportation 25-50 %

It is the policy of Empower AI to provide equal opportunity in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected class or category as may be defined by federal, state, or local laws or regulations. In addition, we affirm that all compensation, benefits, company-sponsored training, educational assistance, social, and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our firm intent to support equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in keeping with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.