Application Developer from ALTA IT Services

Application Developer 
Quantico, VA 
TS/SCI ability to obtain SCI Poly 
$180K

ALTA IT is seeking an Application Developer to join our team supporting the Department of Justice.

Responsibilities

The Application Developer will be supporting a highly capable and diverse team driving technical innovation. You will design, develop, refactor, enhance, test and evaluate, and support software applications currently hosted on-premises to be hosted within the AWS GovCloud instance compliant with government policy directives (PD) and guides (PG) mandated to ensure legal and information security compliance. This shall include analysis of the existing system in collaboration with other team members and Government PM, and designing an appropriate solution. Candidates shall be skilled in multiple web application languages, reverse engineering, and have a background in building scalable, user intuitive, high-quality and high performing web applications. The application enhancements or modifications may include business and process changes to applications/systems as well as coordination with other integrated and non-customer software systems. The successful candidate will work alongside infrastructure, development, and managerial team members to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

Required Skills:

• Clearance: Top Secret clearance is required; TS/SCI w CI Poly clearance is preferred
• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Computer Security or related field of study, and at least 7 years of experience or in lieu of education, three (3) additional years of relevant experience.
• (We are seeking your experience as a front end software developer in building multi-tier framework software applications using object-oriented programming languages, such as Java and Python. What you will need to have in experience in is developing SOAP and REST APIs in a client/server environment such as Java and Python.
• Also needed is experience in the following:
  • Experience writing and evaluating regular expressions, experience developing, debugging and/or refactoring code for popular programming languages (i.e., Java, Python, etc.), experience with scripting command line tools (e.g., Vim, Bash, PowerShell, etc.) to automate command tasks,
  • Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM, knowledge of web-related technologies HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, and experience with any major database (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server).
  • Experience in developing in cloud native applications (AWS preferred) would be beneficial.
• This position will focus more on Web development initially then as the migration is more underway the role will focus more on application development. We are migrating everything from Java 8 to .net version 7 with a REACT front end.
• It’s preferred you have one (1) or more years of experience with cloud application development that may include migrating on-premises applications, but this experience is not required. You’ll have opportunity to be involved in this once on board.

Preferred Skills

• One (1) or more years of experience with application development leveraging a SQL and/or PostgreSQL database as data storage.
• One (1) or more years of experience with cloud (AWS preferred) application development and management