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Cyber Software Engineer

North Charleston, South Carolina

North Charleston, South Carolina

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Job ID: 667147BR Date posted: Oct. 29, 2024 Program: NCRC-CHS
Description:WHY JOIN US:
Relocating to Charleston offers numerous lifestyle and professional benefits. Charleston is renowned for its rich history, incredible architecture, and vibrant cultural scene. It boasts some of the best culinary experiences in the country along with beautiful beaches and outdoor activities that make it an ideal place for both relaxation and adventure. The city’s charm is complemented by its warm climate and welcoming community, making it a delightful place to call home

WHAT WE’RE DOING:

Lockheed Martin, Cyber & Intelligence invites you to step up to one of today’s most daunting challenges: the evolving threat of cyber warfare. This is more than a job opportunity— it’s a chance to grow your career in one of the most fascinating cities in the country! If you are eager to tackle challenging projects and make a significant impact in the cyber domain, join us in Charleston, SC, where your expertise is valued and your personal growth is guaranteed.

THE WORK:

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will spearhead the development, enhancement, and maintenance of a suite of cyber test tools. These tools support network design and configuration, system configuration, application configuration, application functionality verification, and may also support automated cyber-attacks. These tools are essential for designing and executing rigorous cyber testing and training events. You will manage all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle, ensuring our software solutions robustly meet the demanding requirements of government cyber testing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the entire software development process
• Maintain and manage multiple software baselines
• Track and report on metrics to assess progress and health of projects


WHO WE ARE:
Lockheed Martin, Cyber & Intelligence invites you to step up to one of today’s most daunting challenges: the evolving threat of cyber warfare. In Cyber & Intelligence, As a cyber security professional at Lockheed Martin, you’ll protect the networks that our citizens and the world depend upon each minute. Here, you’ll work with cybersecurity experts on the forefront of threat protection and proactive prevention. In this fast-paced, real-world environment, you’ll draw on all your education and experience as well as the resources of Lockheed Martin to keep the threats at bay.

The Software Engineer should have a background in automation, system administration, software development including scripting, and basic understanding of other various computing and cyber topics.

Responsibilities include:

• Own the software development process
• Maintain multiple baselines
• Develop and maintain productivity/estimating data
• Coordinate software enhancement needs with Cyber Event Designers and Leads
• Write/modify code that will support cyber test/training events
• Support of technical and programmatic reviews
• Architectural and software design review and input


This position may be eligible to receive up to a $20,000 sign-on bonus!
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 9 years of professional experience; or 7 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree with a focus in computer science, or a focus in computer and information sciences, information technology, management information systems, or a related discipline with corresponding experience and demonstrated mastery of relevant computer science and software engineering topics.
• Prior usage or knowledge of infrastructure configuration automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.
• 3+ years of experience with software development and software engineering (can overlap with other experience).
• Expert knowledge of one of the following: PowerShell, bash scripting, python scripting, or C/C++ development.
• Experience scripting or automated tasks using Python
Desired Skills:
• Expert knowledge of: software development to include agile software development practices; programming languages; operating systems; networks; enterprise and consumer IT concepts, architectures, and systems (computer, network, storage)
• Experience developing or modifying web applications using web development frameworks
• Prior usage or knowledge of one or more continuous integration tools such as Jenkins
• Prior usage or knowledge of one or more of the following MySQL, MariaDB, mongoDB, Postgres SQL, or no SQL
• Knowledge of Networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, DNS, FTP.
• 2+ years of experience with cyber testing or training to include experience with defensive and offensive cyber tools and TTPs or relevant experience (can overlap with other experience)
• 2+ years of systems administration experience (can overlap with other experience)
• Experience with system administration in Windows and Linux environments
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: TS/SCI
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: Non- standard 40 hour work week as assigned by leader
Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: RMS
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Cyber Security Engineering
Type: Task Order/IDIQ
Shift: First
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About

Lockheed Martin is the leader of cyber security defense, cyber operations and sensitive data protection. We employ the world's best cyber minds from diverse fields – people who are passionate about and empowered by our customers' missions. Lockheed Martin's best-in-cyber teams are experts in thinking like the enemy – identifying adversary activity and anticipating advanced persistent threats to strengthen platform defenses, inside and out of our networks.

Our Commitment to Sustainability: We foster innovation, integrity and security to preserve the environment, strengthen diverse communities and propel growth.

Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:

  • Full Time
  • Level: Entry, Mid, Senior
  • Travel: Minimal, dependent on role

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Qualifications

What does a successful Cyber Security employee at Lockheed Martin look like?
Check out the info below to see if you have what it takes.

  • Analytical

    Advancing technologies and out of the box thinking that enable cyber operations, resulting in inventing solutions that will keep us safe today and into the future.

  • Creative

    Natural curiosity is an absolutely essential trait. Curiosity leads to continual learning which allows you to stay one step ahead of the threat.

  • Curious

    The ability to anticipate hackers’ intent and disrupt their next move is key. Seeking out new weaknesses before they become weaknesses. Proactively learning and updating systems is how we stay ahead of the threat.

  • Proactive

    We have hard problems to solve and we look for people who thrive at solving them, who can see problems from both the defensive and offensive sides.

  • Problem Solver

    Whatever you know today could be different tomorrow as security is constantly changing. Possessing strong technical skills and intellectual depth along with a willingness to continually learn from others is important to adapt to and address the Advanced Persistent Threat.

  • Technologically savvy

    The ability to analyze and disseminate threat intelligence. The ability to analyze and address the root cause, learn from the attack and anticipate the hacker’s next move.

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Quote

“Cyber is the most exciting career field! Every day, there's new cyber threat information that we leverage to shape our courses of action when identifying, assessing, developing, integrating, and continuously evaluating the effectiveness of defensive measures.”

Dr. Dawn B., Senior Fellow

Benefits

  • Healthcare

    Medical, Dental and Vision coverage is available for employees who opt-in.

  • 401(k)/Retirement Plans

    Our 401(k) plan features generous matching and company contributions.

  • Professional Development

    We support our employees through mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs, funding for cyber certifications.

  • Maternity and Paternity Leave

    Our generous parental leave policies support your journey into parenthood. When you return to work, our facilities offer mother's rooms to support your transition and work/life balance.

  • Paid Time Off

    We offer PTO, paid holidays and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations.

  • Flex-time

    Depending on the position, we offer flexible work schedules.

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