Software Engineer

Location: Chantilly, VA

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.

This position is available immediately. 

Job Overview:

The Customer’s office provides correlation services to allow other enterprise systems to search very large scale data repositories for key nuggets of information related to persons and organizations. The Customer requires project management and technical support to manage projects and to perform software development activities within budget.

• Comply with the Customer’s Lean Agile methodology.
• Participate in all Lean Agile scrums, sprints and grooming sessions.
• Manage the progress of Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) product integration and development efforts.
• Ensure tasks are completed on schedule.
• Consult and coordinate appropriately for problem resolution, task scheduling, new resource requirements, and task clarification.
• Work in partnership with an integrated team of staff and contractors.
• Understand the Customer’s target environment, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.
• Coordinate and collaborate with security, operations, testing, and other teams to provide system information and technical support.
• Create, manage and update Jira tickets.
• Design, develop, and modify software systems.
• Unit test their software and perform code reviews.

Contractor shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:

• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Demonstrated experience developing detailed design and associated deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience translating customer and system requirements into design.
• Demonstrated experience designing interfaces or processes using Python.
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing services using Lambda, SQS, and other cloud offerings within AWS.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience developing applications using React, Spring Boot, Spark, and Java.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience developing web services using Java 8+ and JavaScript.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud platforms such as AWS/AZURE to include automated setting up of infrastructure such as instances
• Demonstrated understanding of data collections and storage tools such as Databricks and AWS S3.
• Demonstrated experience with correlation algorithms from Novetta Entity Analytics.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience working with DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Nexus.

Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

• Demonstrated recent experience with the Customer’s Lean Agile methodology.
• Demonstrated recent experience with the Customer's analytic tool to ingest, correlate, build, and disburse products to other applications.
• Demonstrated recent experience with the Customer’s correlation service.

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US Citizenship:

• This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.

Security Clearance:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Travel:

The primary place of performance is at a Customer location in WMA.

• Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance.

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This position is available immediately.

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Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including:

• 100% employer-paid health coverage
• a 6% 401(k) match
• PTO
• tuition reimbursement
• bonuses
• professional development, and more.

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