Description

Position at VMD Corp

As a Vision, Mission, and Driven company, VMD has been delivering information technology solutions to the Federal government in Agile Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Critical Infrastructure Protection since 2002. Our mission has now expanded, and we have merged with Xcelerate Solutions to revolutionize end-to-end enterprise security. Together we are committed to protecting our nation's citizens, critical infrastructure, and resources.

Why Join VMD Corp?
At VMD, now a part of Xcelerate Solutions, you have the opportunity to thrive in your career and become a Game Changer. The quality and talent of our people is what drives our success. We embrace an employee-first culture and make it a priority to provide professional development opportunities that foster career growth.

We help protect American Citizens and the nation's most critical infrastructure by working alongside our customers and delivering game changing solutions to strengthen their missions. We believe our passion and commitment to achieve our customers' goals and solve their most critical challenges defines who we are. We don't just dream big, we act on it - through teamwork, dedication, and resilience.

About the Mission You Will Join:

The team supporting the EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) Fuels IT systems is seeking a full-stack developer to support exciting technical transformation and modernization efforts currently underway. The team is currently focused on supporting and modernizing complex software systems that support industry fuel registration, reporting and compliance activities while using the Agile/SAFe framework. The ideal candidate is forward thinking, eager to learn new technologies, and excited about solving technical challenges every day.

The successful candidate will work as part of an agile development team to build and support enterprise-class software applications that are critical to the operations of our federal customer and industry users who perform thousands of transactions across the platform every day. The current technology stack includes front-end web interfaces, web services (API), server-side business logic, batch jobs such as extract-transform-load (ETL), and Oracle PostgreSQL database backends. In addition to supporting production systems, this position will contribute to an ongoing modernization effort and will therefore participate in researching, developing, delivering, and supporting new technologies, products, and standards which can be incorporated into the OTAQ Fuels suite of applications. The current technical environment includes :

Java/Spring (Spring Boot)
Maven/Gradle
JUnit
HTML/ CSS/ JavaScript (Angular/Knockout)
Grails
Oracle RDBMS (SQL)
PostgreSQL
Jenkins
GIT
Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bit-Bucket)
AWS Cloud Infrastructure

The Full Stack Developer will perform the following responsibilities:

Participate in an agile team, including all agile ceremonies, contributing in all aspects of the development lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of software solutions.
Design, develop, and maintain code that meets requirements, is high quality, and performs efficiently and effectively to provide a great customer experience.
Incorporate standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
Update and maintain system design documents.
Review and provide feedback on functional and technical requirements.
Contributing to improvements in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) utilizing practices such as test-driven development (TDD), static code analysis, code reviews, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated security scanning.
Working closely with technical architects to ensure system design follows the industry best practices and standards that align with federal security requirements
Provide operational support expertise, including the following:
Debugging software to investigate production issues, including performing systematic assessments for identifying root causes of faults or problems
Understanding production environments including security hardening, performance tuning, and access control
Reproducing failures in development environments
Recommending coding solutions for other developers to implement

Qualifications:

Expertise in core Java
Experience with RESTful web services.
SQL and data modeling experience, including experience working with ORM tools/frameworks such as Hibernate (including a working knowledge of JPA).
Experience developing applications and working collaboratively in an agile environment
Outstanding communication, organization, time management, and interpersonal skills
Good written and verbal communication skills coupled with strong listening skills
Experience with Git or other distributed source control system
Working knowledge and experience in Federal IT security guidelines and practices and Section 508/ Accessibility.
Working knowledge and experience in cloud-based environments (AWS/Azure)
Ability to contribute on an individual basis as well as demonstrate your strengths as an agile team member
Experience communicating and collaborating with other software developers, business owners, and management.

Basic Qualifiers:

Education Requirement: Bachelor's degree
Can Additional Years of Experience Substitute for Degree? Yes
Required Certification(s): None
Minimum Years of Overall Experience: 6
Minimum Years of Specific Experience in Field: 6
Minimum Clearance to Start: Public Trust
Work Status Allowable: US Citizen

Preferred Experience:

Single Page Application Frameworks (SPA) VueJS/Angular/ReactJS
Experience with modern microservice (API) architectures
KnockoutJS
Docker (or other container technologies)
Experience building Cloud Native Applications and an understanding of secure cloud architectures, including Hands-on experience with AWS managed services, particularly RDS, ECS, and Fargate for running containerized workloads
Exposure to unified/consolidated data environments and integration patterns (warehousing, ETL/ELT), including Python for data wrangling and pipelines
DevOps/DevSecOps (CI/CD, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub/GitHub Actions/GitHub Copilot, Maven, automation scripting)
Experience with NoSQL database technologies (MongoDB, DynamoDB)

Travel and Telecommuting:

Travel: Little (less than 10%)

Telecommute Options: Remote, with occasional onsite collaboration when needed.

Xcelerate Solutions and its subsidiaries are Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employers. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, equal pay, disability, veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or expression of another protected characteristic. As part of this commitment to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals, Xcelerate provides reasonable accommodations if needed because of an applicant's or an employee's disability. Xcelerate Solutions maintains a drug-free workplace.

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