Position: Applications Developer 10-SO0313-2
Location: Herndon, VA
Job Id: KD 401-04
# of Openings: 1
PLEASE NOTE: This position requires an ACTIVE Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Polygraph. To be considered for this position, you MUST have an ACTIVE Clearance Level of Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph.
Job Description:
The candidate must have detailed experience with AWS and its resources (EC2, S3, CloudFormation stacks, and RDS), as well as familiarity with CloudFormation scripts to create and maintain AWS resources. The candidate must also have experience programming in any language, preferably Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Groovy, or NodeJS. Experience with the AWS CDK in any supported language (Ruby, Python, Java, NodeJS) is required.
Java and C# experience would be beneficial but not mandatory. This experience will be vital in helping the development teams utilize AWS correctly.
This person must be willing to assist in all cases and be familiar with architectural best practices. He/She will have experience with Jenkins and building Jenkins Pipelines using Groovy, Python, and Bash shell scripts.
A University Degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and a minimum of 11.5 years' experience is typical to be considered a SME level. The engineer must have extensive experience working with this Customer.
Mandatory Skills:
- Object Oriented Programming experience
- Experience with AWS (e.g., CloudFormation, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch)
- Experience with relational databases (e.g., RDS, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL)
- Experience in continuous integration technology (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab/GitHub)
- Experience interacting in a Linux environment (e.g., Bash scripting)
- Experience with Jenkins and creating Jenkins Pipelines while understanding continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices
- BS/BA in Computer Science OR equivalent combination of education and experience
- Requires expert or mastery level knowledge of work area, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
- May have deep knowledge of project management. Advanced knowledge of related disciplines within the work area and ability to identify links and potential impact on projects, programs, or systems.
Optional Skills:
- Experience with application platforms such as Spring Boot or Angular
- Experience with log analytics tools such as Splunk or ElasticSearch
- Experience working with containers using Docker or Podman
- Experience with container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and Mesos
- Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior management
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with Microservices
- Experience with front-end development using Angular 10
- Comfortable managing competing priorities and able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios
- Familiarity with Source code management and integration (e.g., GitHub/GitLab)
- Experience in an Agile environment (JIRA, Confluence)