SAIC

Java Developer Junior

JavaScriptJavaReactSQLPostgreSQLAWSDockerKubernetes

About the opportunity

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

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

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

  1. Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related engineering field with 2+ years of technical experience.
  1. Provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS (or equivalent cloud providers.)
  1. Development of microservices using Spring. Primarily Spring Boot.
  1. Experience wiring up code to perform highly efficient CRUD operations on DBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB with JDBC, JPA, Hibernate etc.
  1. Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Angular, React, React-Native, NodeJS.
  1. Developing and debugging complex SQL queries.
  1. Some experience and familiarity with Unix, Linux systems and commands along with some shell scripting.
  1. Experience with object-oriented analysis and design techniques.
  1. 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.
  1. High level of self-motivation, desire to deliver stellar solutions and willingness to work in a distributed team 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.

Desired Skills and Experience

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

SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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