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