Jr. Software Developer with Security Clearance

VTG; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

VTG is seeking a Software Engineer in Chantilly, VA to modernize PKI systems and support IdAM/ICAM, authentication, authorization, and digital policy management. You’ll join a team delivering secure, scalable backend services using Java/Spring/AWS in a Scrum environment with on-call rotations.

The role requires TS/SCI with Polygraph and a BS with 3–5 years of experience. Expect collaboration with product and analytics teams, and opportunities to implement industry standards while ensuring high

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
• BS degree and 3-5 years of demonstrable experience.

Responsibilities

• Work on PKI systems and digital certificates management.
• Collaborate with cloud engineers to build new PKI features.
• Deliver features in a Scrum team with Jira backlog grooming.
• Maintain low-latency, high-throughput backend components.
• Design scalable, testable software architectures.
• Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours support.

Skills

PKI knowledge

Java + Spring Boot

AWS

Git

Linux CLI

Python

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS) degree

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Git

CloudFormation

Linux

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.

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.

Requirements

• 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