Jr. Software Developer

VTG Defense; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

VTG Defense is seeking a Software Engineer to support a large PKI-focused development program. You will design and enhance authentication, authorization, and certificate management systems while ensuring secure, reliable IT operations.

Ideal candidates have TS/SCI with Polygraph, a BS, 3–5 years of experience, and hands-on work with Java/Springboot, AWS, RESTful APIs, and scripting on Linux.

Qualifications

• BS degree and 3-5 years of demonstrable software experience.
• Experience with Java, Springboot, and AWS for backend components.
• Proficient in RESTful API design and modern scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Develop PKI systems, issuing and managing certificates securely.
• Collaborate with product owners and teams to translate requirements.
• Contribute to designing scalable, testable distributed systems.
• Install/configure code on EC2 instances and manage CLIs.
• Assist in security findings remediation with the security engineer.
• Work in Scrum and participate in O M on-call rotation.

Skills

PKI knowledge

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

RESTful APIs

Git

CloudFormation

XML/JSON/YAML

JavaScript

Bash scripting

Python

Linux CLI

Education

Bachelor of Science

Tools

EC2

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Jira

CloudFormation

Job description

Overview

VTG is seeking a Software Engineer for a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Sponsor's Entitlement Programs as well as IdAM /ICAM, Authentication, Authorization, Attributes and Digital Policy Management. The Software Engineer will work with a large team of developers, software engineers and data engineers. The successful candidate will support continuity of our customer's mission by helping to modernise and implement industry standards while ensuring secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of IT systems

What will you do?

• The Candidate must have a strong working knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and understand key concepts like digital certificates and Certificate Authorities (CAs).
• It is highly desired the Candidate also have knowledge of Registration Authorities (RAs), key management practices, cryptographic algorithms, certificate revocation procedures, and trust models.
• Additionally, the ability to design a robust system to issue, manage, and revoke digital certificates while ensuring the integrity and authenticity of users and entities within a network is desirable.
• Candidates who do not have all these abilities, but have the ability to learn them, will be considered.
• The Developer will be part of a team of developers and cloud engineers that create new features for legacy PKI systems as sponsor's mission continues to expand and evolve.
• Our team also builds new systems as new mission needs arise. We are actively working to build new PKI systems on other networks.
• Our work rhythm revolves around the Scrum agile framework to deliver incremental enhancements on a 3-week cycle. Developers actively participate in planning deliverables and grooming the Jira backlog. We rely on team collaboration to continually fine tune performance and ensure clear communication.
• Developers also participate in a team rotation of O&M responsibilities.
• They are required to be on-call for after-hours support approximately one week every three months.

Do you have what it takes?

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and 3-5 years of demonstrable experience
• Experience creating applications with Java, Springboot, and Amazon Web Services for backend components, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems As new systems are built, additional programming languages may be used
• Experience working closely with product owners, business analysts, and other teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Experience analyzing and decomposing complex software systems and creating designs for scalability, testability, and performance
• Experience writing custom scripts to install and configure code in EC2 instances
• Experience using Git
• Experience using CloudFormation scripts
• Experience creating RESTful API
• Experience using XML, JSON and YAML
• Experience creating applications/services using Java, JavaScript, and bash scripting
• Working with the team's security engineer to address, mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL and use of SQL or PLSQL
• Develop APls to Integrate systems and services
• Hands on experience with Linux (CLI)
• Hands on experience with scripting and Java
• Strong, hands-on experience with Linux (CLI)
• Experience with scripting and programming languages like BASH and Python