Software Engineer SME (TS/SCI with Poly Required)

About the role

GCI embodies excellence, integrity and professionalism. The employees supporting our customers deliver unique, high-value mission solutions while effectively leverage the technological expertise of our valued workforce to meet critical mission requirements in the areas of Data Analytics and Software Development, Engineering, Targeting and Analysis, Operations, Training, and Cyber Operations. We maximize opportunities for success by building and maintaining trusted and reliable partnerships with our customers and industry. At GCI, we solve the hard problems. As a Software Engineer, a typical day will include the following duties:

Responsibilities

• Expert-level knowledge of Core Java (NOT Spring Boot), Eclipse IDE v2026, Java 17 or later, JVM, JRE, and JDK concepts, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, JSP, Apache Tomcat 11 or later, Tomcat connector, MariaDB (MySQL) v10 or latest, HTML5, CSS, JSON/XML HTTP, HTTPS, REST API, SSH, PKI, OpenSSL, Putty, Linux and LDAP.
• Extensive experience with LDAP authentication and authorization, and custom LDAP-based solutions.
• Strong experience with SSH and Putty, and custom SSH-based tools and applications on Linux platform.
• Experience with Linux system administration and command-line tools.
• Experience w/ Java REST API development, and API secure requests using application certificates and scalability for user activity monitoring.
• Experienced w/ JDBC, DA