USAF - Sr. Software Engineer

cFocus Software seeks a Sr. Software Engineer to join our program supporting the United States Air Force. This position is onsite with the onsite location being in Ellsworth, South Dakota. This position requires a TS/SCI SSBI clearance., * Analyze mission, functional, technical, cybersecurity, interface, and sustainment requirements and translate them into implementable software designs and engineering changes.

• Design, develop, modify, integrate, debug, and sustain FMWF application components and associated services in accordance with approved technical baselines.
• Evaluate requested system modifications, identify dependencies and risks, develop corrective engineering solutions, and maintain usability within evolving technical environments.
• Perform secure software engineering and implement applicable security controls, least-privilege practices, auditability, error handling, data protection, and compliance requirements.
• Maintain controlled development and test environments, including configuration management, patch validation, test data management, and secure backup of development data.
• Develop and execute unit, integration, regression, interface, performance, security, and deployment-validation testing.
• Conduct engineering validation of patches, updates, enhancements, and modifications before production release and verify production readiness.
• Validate post-deployment functionality and performance; analyze failures and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Support cross-stack integration among the application, WebSphere middleware, DB2 databases, Windows/Linux systems, Active Directory, virtualization, storage, and security tooling.
• Collaborate with database administrators on schemas, queries, data integrity, interfaces, migrations, performance, and recovery considerations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers and system administrators on environments, service accounts, deployment dependencies, capacity, availability, patching, and configuration changes.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel on RMF controls, vulnerability remediation, authorization evidence, assessment findings, and continuous-monitoring requirements.
• Provide Level III technical escalation support through advanced diagnostics, log analysis, debugging, code-level root cause analysis, and fault isolation.
• Support routine lifecycle sustainment, emergency corrective engineering, COOP, disaster recovery, and mission-continuity activities.
• Support implementation and short-term sustainment of newly deployed capabilities and transition stable solutions into operations.
• Participate in configuration reviews, readiness reviews, engineering change management, technical reviews, and QASP performance activities.
• Develop and maintain source code, build/deployment materials, interface documentation, design records, test plans/results, release notes, configuration records, and operating procedures under version control.

• Active TS/SCI SSBI clearance
• B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 10+ years of Software Engineering experience
• Advanced software engineering experience supporting mission-critical enterprise applications through design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and implementing complex system modifications within controlled, configuration-managed environments.
• Strong experience with secure software development, debugging, logging, exception handling, vulnerability remediation, and security-control implementation.
• Experience designing and executing unit, integration, regression, interface, performance, security, and production-readiness testing.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with WebSphere middleware, DB2 databases, and underlying Windows/Linux infrastructure.
• Ability to perform advanced diagnostics and code-level root cause engineering and to provide Level III escalation support.
• Experience with source control, build and release management, configuration baselines, change control, patch/update validation, and deployment verification.
• Working knowledge of RMF, Assessment and Authorization, continuous monitoring, authorization evidence, and DoD/Air Force cybersecurity compliance.
• Experience supporting backup/recovery, resilience, COOP, disaster recovery, test-data protection, and emergency corrective actions.
• Strong technical documentation, peer-review, problem-solving, stakeholder-coordination, quality-control, and communication skills.
• Active IA System Architect and Engineer (IASAE) Level I, DoD 8140 System Administrator, and 632-Intermediate

Invitation for Job Applicants to Self-Identify as a U.S. Veteran

• A “disabled veteran” is one of the following:
• a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or
• a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
• A “recently separated veteran” means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran’s discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
• An “active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran” means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
• An “Armed forces service medal veteran” means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.