About the Role
<p><strong>Job Type: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">Software Engineer Level 1 (US CITIZEN ONLY)</span></p>
<p><strong>Location: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ft Meade, MD</span></p>
<p><strong>Clearance Requirements</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: TS/SCI & Poly</span></p>
<p><strong>Years of Experience:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 7</span></p>
<p><strong>Work site requirement: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">5 days a week in office</span></p>
<p><strong>Travel: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">None</span></p>
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<p><strong>Working with SIXGEN</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SIXGEN is committed to solving our customers’ hardest problems with eagerness, effectiveness, and efficiency. We reject the status quo and constantly look for new ways to push the boundaries of our field. SIXGEN is a small company that works with the big picture in mind, taking on projects with real significance that grow our capacity to tackle even more fascinating development problems. We’ve earned a reputation for efficiency, effectiveness, and impact since our founding.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SIXGEN recognizes that a company is nothing without well-cared for employees. We cultivate an encouraging and innovative workplace environment and give employees flexibility to work on their own terms. SIXGEN offers industry-leading benefits, including</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Employer-funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flexible leave policy (Need Vacation - Take It!)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flexible hours and opportunities to work from home</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">4% 401(k) contribution, vested immediately</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reimbursements for training events, gym memberships, cell phone and internet bills, and lunches with coworkers</span></li>
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<p><strong>Why You Matter</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At SIXGEN, you’ll provide meaningful support to our federal customers. Your commitment to our customer’s missions, curiosity, and attention to detail will make you a valuable addition to the SIXGEN team.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SIXGEN is looking for a Software Engineer with a diverse set of skills and technical knowledge with the ability to respond and adapt to unique requirements. Our ideal candidate can develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software systems and ensure adherence to documented requirements. Additionally, the candidate must be able to work independently as well as collaboratively as part of a team.This role involves reviewing and testing software components for adherence to the design requirements and documenting test results, resolving software problem reports, and contributing to system design by providing input on hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, COTS/GOTS integration, as well as requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual components. </span></p>
<p><strong>Required qualifications:</strong></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seven years of experience as a software engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline is required (Four years of SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two years of development for Windows or UNIX applications using general purpose languages </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two years of experience with Dev Ops building and deploying technologies </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One year of experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins and Bamboo), and building automated CI/CD pipelines</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One year of experience with cybersecurity specific tools and techniques (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK model, reverse engineering, vulnerability research)</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Salary Band; $149,000 - $179,000</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At SIXGEN, we embrace people of all backgrounds. We are an equal opportunity employer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SIXGEN does not discriminate in employment, services, and activities on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other basis prohibited by law</span></p>
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