Senior Sustainment Software Developer at KBR
Colorado Springs, CO
$139,000–$174,000from the description
Aug 16, 2026
Colorado Springs, CO
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role leads a software development team at Peterson Space Force Base building and sustaining web-based applications that manage the technical baseline for military and commercial satellite communications (MILSATCOM) and nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems. The developer architects and implements solutions in C#/.NET and Blazor, integrates Jira/Confluence workflows, and consults directly with military and civilian clients. It suits an experienced, hands-on technical lead comfortable with both people management and full-stack development in a cleared, fully on-site defense environment.
Senior level · 15+ years · Colorado Springs, CO · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,233 (middle half $108,638–$170,529). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 18, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This role has genuine dual-SOC ambiguity: the posting explicitly calls for hiring decisions, managing a diverse staff, and leading a team, which points toward 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers). However, the primary day-to-day work described is hands-on software development (C#/.NET, Blazor, SQL, web architecture), so 15-1252 was selected as primary.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'DoW SECRET clearance with ability to attain a TS/SCI clearance.' The current hard gate is a Secret clearance; TS/SCI is a future attainment requirement. TopSecretSci is set because the posting gates on the ability to obtain TS/SCI, which is a standard cleared-role requirement.
The posting requires 15+ years of IT experience with team lead/supervisory skills — this is a role-level experience gate, not tied to any single technology.
SysML appears only under the Preferred section alongside MBSE knowledge.
'DevOps server' is listed in the required section as 'Knowledge of cloud deployed web-based applications and DevOps server' — captured as DevOps. The specific DevOps platform is not named.
The Bachelor's degree requirement explicitly accepts 'equivalent technical discipline,' but does not offer an experience-in-lieu-of-degree substitution, so Bachelors is set as the minimum.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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