Senior Software Engineer - Whidbey Island

• • • • Come Join Our Team! DKW Communications, Inc. (DKW) is a government contractor providing professional and technical services to various government agencies i.e. defense, law enforcement and security. We are currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our winning team. The individual hired for this position will provide support for our government customer located in Whidbey Island, WA. This is an onsite position.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
• Performs the work necessary to design, develop, document, test, integrate, and modify operating systems and application software for aviation training systems
• Develops, creates, troubleshoots, and modifies specialized utility programs and applications in support of real-time systems
• Performs hardware and software development planning in the incorporation of hardware and software modifications into aviation training systems
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Helps to lead other junior S/W engineers to perform and assist in duties.

Education and Experience Requirements
• This position requires U.S. citizenship and an active DoD Secret clearance to start.
• Bachelor’s degree in electronics or computer engineering, computer science, or equivalent
• At least 7 years of practical experience in software development associated with modeling and simulation within the training systems domains is required
• Demonstrated experience with Powershell, configuring switches and Linux
• Familiar with software development and diagnostic tools
• CompTIA Security+ CE preferred; if not held, certification must be obtained within six months of date of hire

Desired Programming Languages: C++, Java, Powershell
Desired Operating Systems: Windows 11, Windows Server 2025, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Cisco IOS

**All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.**