We are currently adding Software Developers to our team to support multiple projects as our customers refactor their custom software applications to the AWS cloud. Our approach uses a micro-services architecture combined with our deep understanding of the business area to provide rapidly build and deploy solutions.

We’re looking for Java and web developers who are interested in expanding their skills to include micro-services architecture and cloud design, development, and deployment. This is a unique opportunity to join an established team of experienced engineers as we transform our customer’s applications using the next generation of enterprise class software solutions. This is a long-term, mission-critical effort that will be performed onsite at our customer locations in Chantilly/Reston/Herndon Virginia area.

We are seeking candidates at the following levels:

• Junior level with 2 to 3 years of overall software development experience
• Mid level with 4 to 7 years of overall software development experience
• Senior level with 8+ years of overall software development experience

Experience with the following desired:

• Programming languages such as Java, C, C++, or RoR
• User interfaces tools such as ExtJS or JQuery/Bootstrap, React, Angular, Ember, Polymer, or Vue.js
• Developing with Oracle or similar RDMS including a proficiency with SQL
• Working with Agile software development methodologies
• Deploying and supporting software on a UNIX/Linux and/or AWS hosting platform
• Working in a DevOps environment using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, SonarQube, Docker
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline. Equivalent years of related experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Experience with the following is preferred:

• Decomposing software applications into a MicroServices architecture
• Designing and building applications using AWS cloud tools
• Developing web service interfaces using SOAP or REST

We are looking for a mid-senior level DevOps Engineer / Systems Administrator to work with a project team located in Chantilly, Virginia.  This is part of a small, tightly-knit, fast moving team.  This is exciting, fast paced work bringing commercial software into the customer’s AWS environment.

Skills needed include:

• AWS – S3, EC2, VPC, SQS, Security Groups, ELB
• Importing VM’s to AWS
• Server certificates
• Nagios
• ELK
• Docker
• Nginx
• PingFederate (authentication)
• MySQL (helpful to know)
• Ubuntu

We are looking for a mid-senior level DevOps Engineer / Systems Administrator to work with a project team located in Chantilly, Virginia.  This is part of a small, tightly-knit, fast moving team.  This is exciting, fast paced work bringing commercial software into the customer’s AWS environment.

Skills needed include:

• AWS – S3, EC2, VPC, SQS, Security Groups, ELB
• Importing VM’s to AWS
• Server certificates
• Nagios
• ELK
• Docker
• Nginx
• PingFederate (authentication)
• MySQL (helpful to know)
• Ubuntu

We are seeking a talented IT Project Manager (PM) to join our team in supporting our customer in the Federal Government. This position will be located onsite at one of the customer’s locations in Northern Virginia.

The project manager will be responsible for planning and overseeing the activities of a team of software engineers, system engineers, and test engineers and may be responsible for collaborating with other teams. The project manager will be responsible for the overall day-to-day management of the project to include creating and executing project work plans, managing project schedules, coordinating peer reviews, and passing customer control gates. The PM will support the development, enhancement, and O&M efforts for various Java and/or Ruby on Rails applications. Will oversee and may assist with the full system development lifecycle in an agile environment, including requirements definition and user stories, detail design, testing, deployment and maintenance, and will be responsible for life cycle and project management documentation.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Management or other related technical discipline. Four additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• An active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a project management role
• Experience with agile software development methodologies
• Experience leading small software development teams
• Experience producing project life cycle documentation
• Experience with the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present technical information to non-technical audiences
• Excellent interpersonal skills working with technical staff, stakeholders and customers
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Experience working offsite in a customer environment

The following qualifications are strongly preferred:

• Past experience as a software developer preferred
• Scrum Master certification

We are currently looking for a talented Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to perform the following:

• Drive the creation and operation of a cloud management platform for cloud infrastructure services (IaaS) from a public cloud provider
• Gather business and application needs
• Design cloud infrastructure to address application requirements
• Create and manage OS images
• Deploy & configure cloud management platform
• Deploy & configure automation framework
• Configure networking; policy compliance approvals for VPN, intra-cloud network, Internet edge firewall configuration
• Keep templates patched to appropriate compliance levels
• Facilitate scans (as applicable) to meet information assurance requirements
• Ensure appropriate monitoring/event management is put in place, and own incident and problem management
• Generate availability and consumption reports, and review periodically with stakeholders

Required Skills:

• 3 years of experience in a technical position.
• Excellent systems administration skills (Linux and/or Windows Servers)
• Experience building or managing applications from the Application layer down
• Understand the complete deployment lifecycle from design, build, test, deploy
• Coding ability (Java/Tomcat, .NET, Ruby, Python, Node.js, PHP)
• Networking (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL) Support / Troubleshooting experience
• Customer service experience / strong customer focus
• Strong multitasking skills
• Experience with AWS

We are looking for a self-starter who is excited about technology.

Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

We are hiring a Cyber Security Engineer to support the Sponsor’s Information System Security Manager (ISSM) and other cyber security tasks associated with the Sponsor’s legacy and cloud environments. Work will include providing network security and vulnerability support in the area of information assurance and incident response. The Cyber Security Engineer will support the Sponsor’s Information System Security Manager (ISSM) and must have an understanding of Accreditation and Authorization (A&A), network security and AWS cloud services.

Responsibilities will include:

• Provide analysis of vulnerability results and suggesting mitigation plans for security problems.
• Use and evaluate vulnerability tools such as, Nessus, AppDetective and WebInspect.
• Use and evaluate incident response tools such as, HP Fortify and McAfee ePO.
• Use and evaluate auditing tools such as Splunk.
• Understand cloud based infrastructure as a service technologies (Amazon Web Services experience preferred).
• Assist in the evaluation and analysis of AWS cloud services and tools from a security risk perspective.
• Assist in providing security guidance for internal Sponsor documentation.
• Provide analysis of vulnerabilities identified by compliance tools
• Conduct TEM’s to verify and validate systems against NIST, RMF Sponsor internal security regulations.
• Assist in researching, evaluating, and developing relevant Information Security policies and guidance.
• Actively participate in or lead technical exchange meetings and application review boards, documenting actions items/results of these events.
• Brief management, as needed, on the status of the system and/or risk mitigation activities.
• Assess/calculate risk based on threats, vulnerabilities, and shortfalls uncovered in testing and provide recommendations for risk decisions to Sponsor.
• Identify mitigating countermeasures to identified threats, vulnerabilities, and shortfalls.
• Provide enhancement capabilities and SOPs to assessment operations for execution and implementation.

At least one of the following certifications is highly desired: ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA); Certified Authorization Professional (CAP); Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Splunk Certified User; PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification; Relevant hands-on technical certification (e.g., Microsoft MCSE); ITIL Foundation certification; Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK).

We are hiring a Database Administrator for project teams located in Chantilly, VA and possibly other Northern Virginia locations.

Responsibilities include:

• Creating and maintaining all databases required for development, testing, training and production usage.
• Performing the capacity planning required to create and maintain the databases. Work closely with system administrators to ensure application finality.
• Performing ongoing tuning of the database instances.
• Installing new versions of the Oracle RDBMS and its tools and any other tools that access the Oracle database.
• Planning and implementing backup and recovery of the Oracle database, including database refresh.
• Control migration of program, database change, reference data changes and menu changes through the development life cycle.
• Implementing and enforce security for all of the Oracle Databases.
• Ensuring standards are in place for all application design and code is produced with proper integrity, security and performance.
• Applying all Oracle patches and upgrades.
• Providing technical support to application development teams.
• Administering all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures.
• Managing shared resources amongst applications.
• Ultimately responsibility for the physical database design.

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and 10 years of related experience.
• A degree, professional, or personal experience in the following disciplines: Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Math.
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems.
• Knowledge of physical database design
• Ability to perform both Oracle and also operating system performance monitoring and the necessary adjustments.
• Experience with Oracle 11.2.0.4 and 12c.
• Experience with AWS Oracle RDS
• Ability to provide a strategic database direction for the organization.
• Excellent knowledge of Oracle backup and recovery scenarios.
• Understanding of database encryption.

We are hiring a Database Developer to perform O&M and full life-cycle Application Database/software development activities on enterprise IT applications. The Developer will be a part of multiple development teams that use Ruby on Rails and Oracle technologies. The candidate will support the development, enhancement, and operations and maintenance efforts for multiple Ruby of Rails applications. Critical thinking skills will be used to proactively identify efficiencies, new partnerships or new features within the applications. The team works in a collaborative and agile environment.

Mandatory Skills:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• 11+ years of experience writing Oracle, SQL and PL/SQL for database procedures, functions and packages
• Application DBA experience with Oracle 11g
• Experience with Oracle security technologies including Advanced Security Option (ASO) and Virtual Private Database (VPD)
• Experience with database modeling and design
• Experience with encryption technologies
• Experience working with a large team in an Agile environment
• Database development experience including data refresh for DEV and Test Environments including experience with database monitoring for errors including preventative and corrective actions
• Experience with Oracle database backup (RMAN), performance tuning, and recovery operations

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Ruby on Rails development
• Web Services development experience
• Experience with Oracle databases running on Linux, Unix and Windows environment
• Experience with Virtual Directory Engine (VDE)
• Experience with secure, sensitive data
• Experience with the sponsor’s mission applications
• Experience developing and managing multi-schema environments used in an Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) environment
• Experience exhibiting written and oral communication skills

We are currently looking for talented Software Test Engineers to join an established team of experienced engineers as we transform our customer’s applications using the next generation of enterprise class software solutions. These are long-term, mission critical efforts performed onsite at our customer locations in Chantilly/Reston/Herndon Virginia area.

We are seeking candidates at all levels (compensation dependent upon experience):

• Junior level with 2 to 3 years
• Mid level with 4 to 7 years
• Senior level with 8+ year

Preferred experience includes:

• Testing Java, JavaScript, HTML, and XML applications
• Functional, unit, integration, and regression testing
• Automating test scripts using Selenium or JUnit
• AWS cloud
• Requirements tracking tool
• Superior organizational skills and attention to detail

Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

We are looking for a Requirements Specialist with at least six years of experience to join our Requirements team.   The primary duty is to elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify, and manage the requirements gathering process for the customer’s stakeholders.

Responsibilities include:

• Eliciting requirements using a variety of methods: interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, and workflow process analysis
• Writing requirement specifications according to standard templates, using clear natural language
• Decomposing high level business and user requirements into functional requirements with a suitable level of detail
• Assisting with writing Interface Control Documents for external interface partners
• Representing requirements using text alternatives such as Visio diagrams
• Entering, manipulating and storing requirements within a tracking tool
• Managing requirements traceability information and updating documentation

Required skills:

• Experience presenting requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations in natural language (such as Visio)
• Ability to critically evaluate technical information
• Superior organizational skills and attention to detail
• Experience and ability to lead customer briefings and present PowerPoint presentations to a non-technical audience
• Minimum of two (2) years demonstrated experience using Agile methodologies

Desired skills:

• Experience leading a small team
• Experience with systems engineering
• MS Project experience; the ability to create and maintain basic MS Project schedules
• Experience using the customer’s requirement tracking tool

We are looking for a System and Project Integrators with at least two years of experience to join our software development teams. The primary duty is to support the software development team and to facilitate the transition of enterprise applications to the cloud.

Responsibilities will include:

• Plan, document, and track deliverables to provide end-to-end project management support through the software development cycle
• Coordinate with team members and across projects to ensure problem solution, appropriate risk reduction, and customer satisfaction
• Assist in the development and maintenance of detailed schedules
• Assist in the preparation and delivery of formal and informal briefings

Required Skills:

• Experience identifying strengths/weaknesses/gaps in complex technical solutions
• Experience in Agile software development processes and tools
• Experience facilitating the coordination and information flow between programs and stakeholders
• Experience working in a team environment
• Demonstrated experience effectively communicating (oral and verbal) at multiple levels

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Project Management tools
• Knowledge of government information security policies and guidance
• Scrum or PMP certification

We are seeking skilled systems administrators to troubleshoot complex issues, and work with system users to document problems and work toward a resolution. The position requires strong interpersonal and communications skills for interfacing with a variety of customers and system users. The candidate will be part of a team in a fast-paced and dynamic environment and will be responsible for all aspects of administration and support for several mission-critical systems and networks.

Typical responsibilities will include:

• Provide O&M support to systems
• Propose innovations that leverage existing system capabilities in new ways for enhanced O&M
• Maintain awareness of technical trends for strategic consideration in current/future systems
• Identify technical risks to systems and develop mitigation strategies
• Define processes, policies, and procedures for all aspects of system administration
• Extensive interface with users requiring technical suppor
• Collection and analysis of key metrics
• Presentations to customers and management to explain technical issues
• Required Qualifications:
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience as a Linux Systems Administrator
• Demonstrated experience – Linux administration
• Demonstrated experience – VMWare administration
• AWS (cloud) knowledge/expertise

Required Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on experience with Windows (XP/7/2003/2008) environments
• Experience with VMware products (vSphere, VMware View, etc) or other virtualization technologies
• Experience with designing and implementing solutions for high availability or disaster recovery
• Experience using patch deployment solutions such as MS WSUS and enterprise virus management tools such as McAfee EPO

Desired Qualifications:

• Certifications from vendors such as Microsoft or RedHat
• Experience using scripting for task automation and performance tuning
• Familiarity with Cisco or Juniper networking hardware
• Experience with network monitoring tools such as Tivoli, SCOM, etc.
• Experience with ticketing tools such as Remedy

Education:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university with 6 years’ experience. Additional experience in lieu of a degree.

We are currently adding System Architects to our team to support multiple projects as our customers refactor their custom software applications to the AWS cloud. Our approach uses a micro-services architecture combined with our deep understanding of the business area to provide rapid build and deployment of solutions.

The system architect will partner with customer experts and the software development team to architect and implement mission specific solutions across the IT applications, infrastructure, operations, and security domains.

Responsibilities include:

• Plan and orchestrate the development and transition of prototypes to technology solutions
• Participate in the identification of the customer’s technology problems, gaps, and risks, then architect scalable solutions for the enterprise
• Lead the evaluation of emerging technologies and recommend changes to requirements
• Gather and analyze system requirements in the context of best practices

Experience with:

• Delivering software projects
• Demonstrated Agile systems development
• Developing and managing plans and success measures
• Working with cloud-base projects
• Effective (verbal and written) communications of technical concepts and project plans

Experience with the following is preferred: 

• DevOps Tools
• Amazon Web Services
• Systems planning, security principles, and software management best practices

We are currently looking for a talented Systems Integrator to work closely with a customer implementing a new system. The successful candidate must have an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph to support our customer in Chantilly, VA.

Job Description

We have been selected to bring into our customer’s AWS environment a commercial product to support human-resource related business processes. This project has a high-level of visibility within our customer and will provide significant functional improvement for their users. We are looking for a system integrator who enjoys interacting with various types of users and learning their needs, and configuring and testing the commercial product to meet those needs. The ideal candidate will enjoy managing a variety of tasks related to configuration, implementation, and testing, as well as training users and building reports using the commercial product. This is a dynamic, fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities will include the following:

• Requirements analysis based on provided customer documents and customer meetings.
• Assist in the configuration of the commercial product, including specifying data fields and workflow steps.
• Provide demonstrations of newly implemented configurations to customers and customer management
• Assist in the generation of application reports using established reporting tools within the application.
• Testing of the entire system, user interface, workflow, and reports, and results of data migration efforts.
• Training of users to include one-on-one training, assistance, and coaching.

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• An active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• A Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience
• 1-5 years of systems integration and/or customer support experience
• Ability to translate customer business requirements into specific configuration changes or specific reports
• Ability to understand complex workflow processes
• Ability to communicate well to understand business processes and demonstrate how configuration changes meet business needs.
• Ability to multitask to manage a variety of requirements-related details, and manage multiple tasks according to priorities.
• An understanding of relational database concepts (to assist with report creation)

The following qualifications are a plus:

• Previous experience with commercial product configuration, especially with data element and workflow configuration
• Previous experience with building reports
• Amazon Web Services, or other cloud development or implementation