Java Developer Junior

SAIC is currently seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented junior-level Java/JEE Developer to join our team in Ashburn, VA to begin an exciting and challenging career.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop Use Cases for implementing new technologies that solve “real world” problems found in enforcing border security.
• Influences the adoption of new technologies to be used by other project teams to promote the adoption of new technologies across the organization.
• Develop and maintain Enterprise Systems best practices; support knowledge sharing across the enterprise.
• Follow tool adoption processes and bring innovative ideas that promote forward thinking, optimization, security and savings across the enterprise.
• Ready to provide hands-on application team surge support:
  • Design and implement microservices using the Spring framework.
  • Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse, VS Code, and Atlassian Suites for design, development, and testing the software.
  • Work with users in an Agile development approach to understand and document requirements in JIRA, then elicit feedback and refine solutions through demonstrations.
  • Present the solution at formal and informal design reviews, and document the design according to the Government’s system lifecycle methodology.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related engineering field with 2+ years of technical experience.
• Provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS (or equivalent cloud providers.)
• Development of microservices using Spring. Primarily Spring Boot.
• Experience wiring up code to perform highly efficient CRUD operations on DBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB with JDBC, JPA, Hibernate etc.
• Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Angular, React, React-Native, NodeJS.
• Developing and debugging complex SQL queries.
• Some experience and familiarity with Unix, Linux systems and commands along with some shell scripting.
• Experience with object-oriented analysis and design techniques.
• Thorough understanding of developing scalable web applications - infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security etc.) and have experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution.
• High level of self-motivation, desire to deliver stellar solutions and willingness to work in a distributed team environment.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience working on an agile team such as Scrum.
• Experience writing code to interact with AWS services (e.g., S3, SQS, Lambda, Elasticache, MongoDB etc.)
• Experience developing use cases, developing the solution and presenting outcomes.
• Docker, Konvoy, Kubernetes.
• Jenkins, Harness, Gitlab, Monitoring Tools.
• Masters in Computer Science or related field is a plus.
• Ability to work in a high-pressured, tight-deadline environment.
• Must be able to multitask efficiently and progressively and work comfortably in an ever-changing data environment.

Customer Requirements

• Clearance – Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation.
• Citizenship – Must be a US Citizen.
• Location – Hybrid with on-site (Ashburn, VA) visit 1 day per week and if a mission need. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area.