Jr. Software Developer

Software EngineerVTG 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 experienceExperience 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 usedExperience working closely with product owners, business analysts, and other teams to translate business requirements into technical solutionsExperience analyzing and decomposing complex software systems and creating designs for scalability, testability, and performanceExperience writing custom scripts to install and configure code in EC2 instancesExperience using GitExperience using CloudFormation scriptsExperience creating RESTful APIExperience using XML, JSON and YAMLExperience creating applications/services using Java, JavaScript, and bash scriptingWorking with the team's security engineer to address, mitigate security findings stemming from system security scansExperience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL and use of SQL or PLSQLDevelop APls to Integrate systems and servicesHands-on experience with Linux (CLI)Hands on experience with scripting and JavaExperience with scripting and programming languages like BASH and Python