Full Stack Software Engineer

Peraton is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Herndon, VA. The qualified applicant will become part of Peraton's Department of State (DOS) Consular Systems Modernization (CSM) Program, for the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA). This initiative is intended to modernize and consolidate the operational environment under a common technology framework in order to better support the services provided to CA’s customers. 

As part of the modernization program, the Full Stack Software Engineer will be responsible for supporting the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements definition and prototyping, software design, implementation, testing, and maintenance.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement software applications using AWS services such as API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Define software requirements, both functional and non-functional, as high-level epics, features and user stories to support Agile methodology.
• Implement cloud-native solutions using AWS best practices ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiencies.
• Develop prototypes to support product and/or technology evaluations.
• Design software using industry standard design patterns and best practices to improve maintainability, flexibility, performance, security, and availability.
• Implement enterprise web-based applications (Java technology stack) within an Agile delivery environment.
• Develop single page applications using a client-side rendering framework.
• Develop service-based solutions (REST-based web services) using microservices architecture.
• Develop database solutions for managing structured and unstructured data.
• Develop automated unit and integration tests that can be incorporated into CI/CD pipeline.
• Support CI/CD initiatives and utilize static code analyzers to ensure high quality source code.
• Support software testing activities, including IV&V, and provide timely software defect resolutions.
• Provide production and operational support, as needed, to ensure deployed software meets functional and non-functional requirements.

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Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 (eight) years’ experience.
• Experience developing, deploying, and managing applications in AWS cloud environments.
• Experience in full life cycle software development and maintenance projects with involvement in requirements management, technical design and development, and deployment.
• Experience supporting software development activities for software projects specializing in the development of enterprise web applications.
• Experience with full-stack development (Front end and backend) using HTML / CSS / JavaScript, React technologies and Java, Spring boot for backend to implement enterprise web-based applications within an Agile environment.
• Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD automation using Jenkins, Git, GitHub.
• Experience with static code analyzers (CAST, HP Fortify, SonarQube, etc.).
• Experience developing 508 compliant solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to obtain or have an Active Secret (or higher) clearance. Interim clearances are acceptable.  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in enterprise software system modernization efforts.
• Experience with AWS Security best practices, including IAM roles, policies and encryption strategies.
• Experience automating cloud deployments using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience in cloud-based environments including the development of software that supports architectures that involve public/hybrid clouds.
• Experience developing single page applications using a client-side rendering framework (Angular, React, etc.) and responsive CSS framework (Bootstrap, Material Design, etc.)
• Experience developing service-based solutions using the Java technology stack, building REST-based services (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, etc.), and deploying in a container-based microservices architecture (Docker, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience developing structured transactional database solutions using an RDBMS database (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Experience developing high volume, highly available, and secure software systems.
• Experience developing and deploying software systems in an incremental manner using Agile methodology.