Jr. Software Developer

VTG; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

VTG seeks a Software Engineer to join a 200+ FTE program supporting Entitlement Programs, IdAM/ICAM, and Digital Policy Management. You will work with a large team to modernize secure IT systems and ensure availability.

The role emphasizes PKI design, certificate lifecycle, and low-latency distributed backend services on AWS. You will collaborate with security to address findings and participate in Scrum-driven sprints, including after-hours on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
• BS degree and 3-5 years of demonstrable experience.
• Experience creating applications with Java, Springboot, and AWS for backend components, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions with product teams.
• Experience analyzing and decomposing complex software systems for scalability, testability, and performance.
• Experience writing scripts to install and configure code in EC2 instances.
• Experience using Git.
• Experience using CloudFormation scripts.
• Experience creating RESTful APIs.
• Experience using XML, JSON, and YAML.
• Experience creating applications/services using Java, JavaScript, and Bash scripting.
• Collaborate with security engineer to address findings from security scans.
• Experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL and SQL/PLSQL.
• Develop APIs to integrate systems and services.
• Hands-on Linux (CLI).
• Hands-on scripting and Java.
• Strong Linux proficiency.
• Experience with Bash and Python.

Responsibilities

• Work on PKI-enabled backend components and IDAM/ICAM platforms.
• Contribute to design of certificate issuance, management, and revocation processes.
• Develop and maintain RESTful services and APIs.
• Collaborate with product owners and engineers in an Agile team.
• Address security findings with the security engineer during reviews.
• Maintain infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and AWS tools.
• Participate in on-call rotations and after-hours support.

Skills

PKI

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Distributed systems

RESTful API

Git

CloudFormation

XML/JSON/YAML

Linux

Scripting (BASH, Python)

Security

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Agile/Scrum

Education

BS in Computer Science or related

Tools

EC2

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 modernize and implement industry standards while ensuring secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of IT systems

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 modernize 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