Software Integration Engineer - JMPS

About the position

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Software Integration Engineer - JMPS. Our team is searching for experienced aircrew members to provide support to the Mission Planning Software Test Team and our Air Force customer. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment, learning new technology areas, this is the place for you.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for verifying and validating integration issues that arise with Mission Planning Environments before fielding.
• Reviews install instructions and provides redlines to these instructions for Mission Planning Environments ensuring proper integration needs are met throughout the mission planning environments inception for development, through Dev Eval, Baseline Update Events (BUE) for both Combined Air Forces (CAF), Mobility Air forces (MAF) and Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) prior to the fielding of these MPEs.
• Coordinates Baseline Update Event (BUE) for software finalization for all TE Mission Planning Environments to include monthly Aeronautical data for system consumption of Mission Planning Systems for the entire Software Engineer team.
• Integrates and reports all findings of beta software for 45th TGAC Mission Planning Enterprise to include Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC), Enterprise Secure Host Baseline (ESHB) and Mission Planning Hardware Apps.
• Plans, coordinates, and monitors test projects that frequently require significant modification of standard practices or adaptation of instrumentation to obtain valid results.
• Plans, monitors and evaluates tests, and assesses the feasibility and soundness of proposed evaluation methods.
• Makes recommendations and commitments on the conventional aspects of the testing assignments.
• Provides mission planning expertise in addressing questions/issues of critical importance to the customer and frequently serves as the final authority on software quality.
• Maintains a working knowledge of the software or class of software being tested, to include experience with the existing software, previous versions, or any associated software used in conjunction with the software being tested.
• Ability to conduct mission planning using JMPS mission planning software is highly desirable.
• Maintains testing/test methodology experience, including testing of software/hardware, such as unit, integration, system, or acceptance testing, and familiarity with Air Force directives, CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) and AGILE processes and procedures.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in a technical field and 10 years of applicable experience.
• Must have an active and current DoD Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance.
• Must possess a thorough knowledge of mission planning procedures and techniques.
• Must have experience in the installation and management of software upgrades to USAF Mission Planning Environments to include Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in System Administration highly desired.
• Experience in Data Management of USAF systems.
• Knowledge in USAF Standard Desktop Configurations (SDC) and software upgrade processes.
• Familiarity with USAF developmental and test processes as they relate to software acquisition and evaluation.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Continuing education assistance
• Professional development allotment
• Multiple healthcare benefits packages
• 401K with employer matching
• Competitive time off policy along with a federally recognized holiday schedule