Test and Integration Engineer - Survivable Airborne Operations

Join a team building secure, automated recovery capabilities that will enable future mission-critical systems to recover quickly and operate with confidence when it matters most. We are looking for motivated engineers, hands-on problem solvers, and proactive go-getters who take ownership and enjoy moving complex solutions from concept through integration and demonstration.

DS2 is seeking a Test and Integration Engineer to help turn innovative recovery technologies into reliable, mission-ready capabilities. You will work across software, infrastructure, recovery platforms, lab environments, and representative hardware to deploy integrated solutions, exercise critical mission workflows, identify and resolve technical issues, and produce objective evidence that backup, rapid restoration, and full reconstitution perform as intended.

The position combines virtual collaboration with occasional in-person work, and preference will be given to candidates who can travel to the Boston, Massachusetts area for lab integration, test activities, and customer-facing demonstrations.

Who is DS2?

DS2 provides full life-cycle software engineering services to DoW, federal, and commercial clients. We are committed to teamwork, a clear focus on the customer, and a belief that hiring talented individuals is essential to achieving our vision of being “Engineered to Exceed Expectations”.

Every day, DS2 engineers meet our client's needs through problem-solving, teamwork, and technology-driven solutions. You can expect to work with a team of committed engineers that lives our core values in an environment where working hard is important and playing hard is just as important.

Please Note: You must be a U.S. Citizen and able to complete a U.S. government background investigation.

Responsibilities — What you’ll do

• Configure, deploy, and integrate mission system solutions and supporting services within lab and representative mission environments
• Develop automated component, interface, integration, and system-level tests including backup, rapid restoration, and full-reconstitution workflows
• Create and maintain test environments, representative workloads, test data, system configurations, and repeatable environment-reset procedures
• Execute mission scenarios, validate restored and reconstituted systems, analyze failures, and work with developers to identify and resolve defects

Required Qualifications — We need someone who

• Has a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar technical field and 6+ years of experience
• Has a U.S. Citizenship (required for federal contract work and eligibility for security vetting)
• Has hands-on experience configuring, deploying, troubleshooting, or testing integrated software and infrastructure solutions
• Has experience developing automation or test utilities using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or a comparable scripting or programming language
• Can demonstrate an understanding of system integration, networking, virtualization, containers, storage, identity, configuration management, and API-based services
• Has experience developing and executing test procedures, documenting results, managing defects, and verifying corrective actions
• Communicates effectively with software developers, platform engineers, cybersecurity personnel, system architects, and customer stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications — Bonus points if you

• Have experience supporting DoW programs, classified systems, secure labs, mission platforms, or operationally representative test environments
• Hold an active Secret clearance
• Have worked with backup, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, storage, virtualization, or full-system restoration technologies
• Have specific experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, containers, or recovery playbooks
• Have experience testing REST APIs, distributed services, system interfaces, infrastructure dependencies, and failure-recovery behavior
• Have supported system demonstrations, design reviews, formal verification events, or customer acceptance activities
• Hold relevant testing, cloud, virtualization, networking, cybersecurity, Agile, or DevOps certifications

Salary Range

$90,000—$110,000 USD

Benefits — What we do for you

• Flexible work hours and hybrid work options
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, including paid STD, LTD, and AD&D
• Start with 15 paid time off (PTO) days and 11 holidays
• 401K savings plan with company-matching

Educational and growth opportunities

• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan repayment
• Certification reimbursement + bonuses and Learning Platform Subscriptions
• Catered tech talk lunches on topics picked by you and your teammates
• Sponsored community and volunteer events, giving back to our community
• Monthly office social events; game night, cook outs and office parties

Standard HR Disclaimer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by federal, state or local laws. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.