Sr. Java Developer (Telework) - Military veterans preferred

SAIC is seeking a Sr. Java Developer to support the VIBES Engineering Team.

Note:  The role supports the VIBES program located at Aberdeen Proving Grounds and allows for 100% telework for anyone in the continental United States.

Job Duties:

• Work as part of a team of software engineers, systems administrators, database administrators/developers, network engineers and Subject Matter Experts (SME).

• Perform software engineering including requirements analysis, design, coding, integration, and testing of complex distributed web-based systems for intelligence data processing applications.

• Work with system engineers, data scientists, and subject matter experts to transform concepts into requirements, and requirements into a structured software design for implementation by the development team.

• Work in a collaborative agile software engineering team on scrum sprints to integrate software, services, compute, and storage requirements to achieve optimal performance of the system and applications comprising the system.

• Conduct software development activities on pre-production environments and support the software lifecycle and deployment of the system and the applications and data comprising the system to pre-production and operational environments.

• Analyze complexity and level of effort of features and capabilities and provides input into the software lifecycle management process.

• Provide guidelines/best practices and direction to domain architects on business process, application architecture, database management and infrastructure.

• Operate across organizational groups to drive standardization of common approaches and best practices. The goal is to deliver services based architecture that supports company's business needs using right technology mix.

• Design and develop new software features

• Maintain existing code through defect correction and refactoring

• Participate in technical design

• Write stored procedures, triggers and update the data model

• Provide unit tests for all code

• Conduct code reviews with other developers

• Follow best practices for software development in a cloud based environment

Required Education and Experience

• High School Degree and 13 years of experience OR Bachelors from an accredited institute preferably in a Technical Computer Field (preferred concentration in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline) and nine (9) years or more experience
• Active Top Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain SCI within 6 months (Clearance must be listed in JPAS).
• 5+ years’ experience in Linux (RHEL and CentOS) development environments
• 5+ years’ experience with Java language, development environment, and tools
• 3+ years’ experience with Atlassian JIRA for issue/bug tracking
• 3+ years’ experience with software version control using Atlassian Bitbucket / Git
• Experience managing development operations (DEVOPS) on Amazon Web Services
• Experience working with AWS VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, and/or CLI
• Strong experience in web architecture and development using virtual machines and cloud
• Strong experience in top-down architecture analysis and object-oriented design of complex distributed systems creating functional cohesion, loose coupling, and well-defined interfaces
• Strong experience in communicating and documenting system requirements, architecture, and design to project stakeholders, developers, testers, and end users
• Strong self-starter with leadership experience managing software development team
• Experience working in a collaborative Agile environment
• Experience with task estimating and planning
• Must have strong analytic, written, verbal, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Solid understanding of IP network technologies and software tools for performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Strong abilities troubleshooting and tuning distributed environments processing high volume of transactions
• In depth technical understanding of systems, databases, networking, and computing environments
• Basic knowledge with DoD Cyber Security auditing, continuous monitoring and analysis
• Possesses strong analytical skills and have good interpersonal and communications skills in dealing with multiple contractor and government organizations
• Must be a self-starter and be able to work independently, but also within a team
• Must be able to learn quickly in a highly technical fast paced environment.