Company Description

VEA is an award winning, nationally recognized, small, minority company based in Washington, DC.

Job Description

VEA is seeking a Software Developer to join our team and help accelerate a federal mission client’s discovery and delivery of identity and network-based intelligence insights to counter national security threats and malicious actors. Our software developers will assist in crafting, testing, and recommending scalable, flexible, and resilient designs and implement integrations with a standard platform in a cloud environment. The ideal candidate will have experience in strategizing overall build tools and software to facilitate information and data sharing, and advance analytic practices. 

Responsibilities:

• Employ software development techniques and methodologies for solving tough analytical challenges in support of one of national security threats
• Use software development skills to automate manual analytical processes
• Opportunity to expand upon beyond specializations to include front end user interfaces, back end microservices, web services, cloud architectures, as well as databases and other persistent data stores
• Deploy developed IT solutions, user applications, databases, and other IT capabilities
• Design and develop specialized user solutions, applications and databases using a hybrid Agile approach within a DevOps environment
• Provide Tier 3 technical support for deployed applications and databases
• Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git
• Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications
• Maintain code integrity and organization
• Collaborate with the rest of engineering team to design and launch new features. Includes coordination and documentation of deployment procedures, release plans, etc.
• Keen interest in learning and using the latest software tools, methods, and technologies to solve real world problem sets vital to national security
• Support to off-hours deployment such as evening or weekends.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Minimum of an active Top Secret clearance
• B.S. or BA. Computer Science, Information systems, Business Administration (concentration in technology) or equivalent military or work experience
• Understanding of cloud architectures and enabling tools and technologies, such as, AWS Cloud (GovCloud/C2S)
• Familiar with Amazon Web Managed Services (AWS)
• Proficient experience utilizing JavaScript, Angular, Typescript, Node.js, MongoDB, JSON, SQL, XML
• High experience level with back-end programming languages (Java/Spring, Python)
• Working knowledge with datastores MongoDB, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, S3, Redshift, Redis, and Elasticsearch
• Familiar with technologies jQuery, ASP/.Net, NoSQL, PL/SQL, LDAP, HTTP, REST/SOAP, RDBMS
• Familiar with Configuration Management and CI Tools, such as, Git/Gitlab, Jenkins, SonarQube, Maven, Ansible, Chef
• Familiar with Linux/Unix server environments
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Working knowledge with Collaboration tools, such as, Jira and Confluence

Desired Qualifications:

• Working knowledge with software platforms and services, such as, Docker, Kubernetes, JMS/SQS/SNS, Kafka, AWS Lambda, NiFi,
• Working knowledge with public keys and digital certificates
• Experience with automated testing patterns and tools, such as, Mocha/Chai, JUnit, NUnit, TestNG
• Experience with DevOps environments
• Expertise in various COTS, GOTS and open-source tools which support development of data integration and visualization applications
• Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications
• Specialization in Object Oriented Programming languages, scripting, and databases
• Familiar with Python, Groovy, Shell Script 

Additional Information

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any additional federal, local or state protected class.