Software Developer

Software Developer

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About the job

The Sponsor applies technical resources to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open source data, information, and insights. The Sponsor requires support to maintain and enhance an existing big data exploitation platform. The Contractor will work within an agile team environment. Work will include creating Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based resources; writing, testing, and debugging custom application code; administering database services; and performing data cleaning, formatting, and other forms of data management. The Team shall work closely with the Sponsor’s product owner and program manager to deliver user stories necessary to realize product vision. The Team shall coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements. The Team shall apply an agile approach to software development consistent with the Sponsor’s project management and software development frameworks with a focus on demonstrating and delivering releasable software every iteration. The Team shall create and maintain JWICS-accessible resources within the Sponsor’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud environment. The Team shall ensure all security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity and maintain security accreditation, including maintaining plan of action for vulnerability remediation. The Team shall maintain all source code in Sponsor-wide, remote Git repository. The Team shall apply industry best practices (such as, but not specifically Test Driven Development) for ensuring custom application code is comprehensively tested. The Team shall administer and maintain relational and non-relational transactional database systems within the application security boundary. The Team shall perform data cleaning and formatting for ingested data ensuring they meet quality and content management standards.

Requirements
Basic Qualifications:
Candidate must have an active TS/SCI with a Full Scope Polygraph

  • Requires Bachelors with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 4-8 of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience can be accepted in lieu of a degree.
  • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining cloud based platforms.
  • Demonstrated experience administering, securing, and scaling AWS EC2 resources consisting of CentOS/Linux servers with some configured as MySQL database servers.
  • Demonstrated experience applying front end technologies, including HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining applications using Ruby on Rails with Apache Solr.
  • Demonstrated experience developing software in a DevSecOps environment.
  • Demonstrated experience with modern system architecture patterns, such as event-driven, microservices and MVC architectures.
  • Demonstrated experience maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with automated testing and deployment.
  • Demonstrated experience using Git as a source code repository.
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    Preferred Qualifications
    Demonstrated experience with Angular, React, or Vue.js
  • Demonstrated experience with D3.js or OpenLayers

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