Our client, a leading federal defense contractor has an immediate opening for an I&T Engineer to be a member of a cross functional team responsible for building software and platforms that supports the most important missions in the Space and Intelligence domains.

As an I&T Engineer, you will:

- Design, build, integrate, test, deploy, and improve software services and platforms within a cross-functional agile team
- Work closely with the engineering leadership to ensure quality is built in early and is testable
- Develop and participate in-the QA/test approach, methodology, and process for a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment
- Test applications through automated and manual back-end-functions as well as through UI
- Qualify all new features by testing on supported platforms and configurations
- Implement, execute and troubleshoot automated tests during the sprint cycles
- Verify installations with acceptance tests, track bugs, and participate in development meetings
- Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products
- Support and develop our technical culture by being engaged, intellectually curious, friendly, motivated to solve complex problems, and inspired to deliver superior user-centered software solutions
- Participate in internal reviews of software components and systems.

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Must be able to obtain a DoD Secret
- Requires a Bachelor-s degree in Engineering, or a related Science, Technology or Mathematics field and 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience. -
- Deep knowledge of test methodologies, writing I&T plans, creating test cases and debugging
- Working knowledge of application deployment tools such as Ansible
- Experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or Gitlab Runner
- Experience with Junit-Mockito, Apache HTTPD Server, and Spring Boot
- Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux Environments
- Expertise in Test Automation using Selenium, Test Complete, Cucumber, Apache JMeter or similar tools
- Familiarity with Cloud Computing and IaaS environments such as the Red Hat Open Stack Platform (RHOSP), Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services
- Familiarity with Container technologies such as Docker and/or Orchestration technologies such as Rancher/Kubernetes
- Full use and understanding of software engineering concepts, principles, and theories
- Effective communication and attention to detail
- Understands the DOD domain/programs well
- Space domain, especially OPIR, experience preferred.