Software Development Engineering Manager

$150,000 - $180,000/Yr

Kratos Defense - Colorado Springs, CO

Full-time - Mid Level

Colorado Springs, CO

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

Ready for What's Next? Kratos Defense & Security Solutions develops and fields transformative, affordable technology, platforms, and systems for United States National Security related customers, allies, and commercial enterprises. We proactively build trusted relationships with our peers, partners and customers, and take ownership for our actions—always striving to do the right thing. Kratos is looking for a mid to senior level Software Development Engineer Manager. The position will support dynamic, agile projects implementing a SecDevOps approach across all phases of the software development lifecycle, to include design, development, test, and operational support/user feedback. The ideal candidate must be able to work independently as well as within a team setting on the design, implementation, and maintenance/troubleshooting of new and existing software solutions, primarily within the satellite command and control (C2) domain space. Knowledge of Container and Cloud implementations is a plus. Kratos provides leading-edge capabilities for communication with satellites. This ranges from factory test to flight, from ground data networking to RF Links - commercial, intelligence, and defense users trust Kratos to solve their most difficult RF problems. For a more complete overview of our capabilities see http://www.kratosdefense.com/. This Software Development Engineer Manager position is a great opportunity based in Colorado Springs, CO.

Responsibilities

• Effectively communicate with various team members, customers, and vendor support.
• Leverage modern industry standard technologies in engineered solutions and generate estimates and status of design efforts.
• Support more than one project at a time, addressing critical issues and guiding them to effective resolution.
• Work with a cross-functional engineering team.
• Travel as necessary to support system integration, testing, and customer meetings.
• Be a strong team player and leader to the project team and organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, or related degree).
• At least 10 years of relevant work experience.
• Proficiency in Java and C/C++ programming on Linux platforms.
• Experience in addressing software race conditions and batch file, Python scripting.
• Solid understanding of relational database applications and creation of expressions.
• Proven Docker/Container & Kubernetes design and implementation knowledge and experience.
• Ability to design software solutions to complex engineering problems and accurately estimate the effort to accomplish them.
• Proven ability to lead teams in software development and mentor/coach newer software engineers.
• Experience in defining and developing requirements with customers and developing the test methodology to verify them.
• Experience using Atlassian tools and working in an Agile software development environment.
• CI/CD Pipeline experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience and/or knowledge of OpenShift, Kafka, AWS, Azure implementations.
• Basic knowledge of satellite operations, signal processing, digital communications theory, network communications, Oracle database experience.
• Unix Shell Scripting and Structured Query Language (SQL) knowledge.
• Lead Software Architecture Design experience.
• RHEL 7.x & 8.x experience.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance Coverage
• Life/ADD & Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Paid Time-Off (PTO)
• Holidays
• Education Reimbursement