Jr. Software Developer

About the role

VTG is seeking a Software Engineer for a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Sponsor’s Entitlement Programs as well as Identity, Credential, and Access Management (IdAM/ICAM), Authentication, Authorization, Attributes, and Digital Policy Management. The Software Engineer will work with a large team of developers, software engineers, and data engineers to modernize and implement industry standards while ensuring secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems, including issuing, managing, and revoking digital certificates while ensuring integrity and authenticity.
• Collaborate with a team of developers and cloud engineers to create new features for legacy PKI systems and build new systems as mission needs evolve.
• Participate in the Scrum agile framework, delivering incremental enhancements on a 3-week cycle, including planning deliverables and grooming the Jira backlog.
• Engage in team rotations for Operations & Maintenance (O&M) responsibilities, including after-hours on-call support approximately one week every three months.
• Develop backend components using Java, Spring Boot, and Amazon Web Services, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions by working closely with product owners, business analysts, and other teams.
• Analyze and decompose complex software systems, creating designs for scalability, testability, and performance.
• Write custom scripts to install and configure code in EC2 instances.
• Develop RESTful APIs and integrate systems and services.
• Work with the team's security engineer to address and mitigate security findings from system security scans.
• Utilize relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, including SQL or PL/SQL.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance required.
• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and 3-5 years of demonstrable experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), including digital certificates, Certificate Authorities (CAs), Registration Authorities (RAs), key management practices, cryptographic algorithms, certificate revocation procedures, and trust models.
• Experience creating applications with Java, Spring Boot, and Amazon Web Services for backend components.
• Experience with Git, CloudFormation scripts, XML, JSON, and YAML.
• Experience creating applications/services using JavaScript and bash scripting.
• Hands-on experience with Linux (CLI) and scripting languages like BASH and Python.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, including SQL or PL/SQL.