Software Engineer, NITES-Next Program - US Citizen - Remote

GDIT seeks a Software Engineer to contribute to the Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System - Next Generation (NITES-Next) program.

As a Software Engineer for our NITES-Next program, you will be working on the Navy's premier suite of software tools for the distribution, display and analysis of meteorological and oceanographic data and its impact on Navy systems. This includes a web based React JS user interface running the Chromium Framework, JBoss Application Server, PostgreSQL RDBS with Post GIS extension, and GeoServer Geospatial Information System (GIS). Current work includes refactoring the system to support deployment in a ServiceMix based containerized architecture built through the Overmatch Software Armory (OSA) DevSecOps software factory. We implement for target deployments on Windows Laptops, Multi-VM Ship Based Hosting Environments, Ashore Cloud-based deployments, and Containerized Deployments.

Our customer is in San Diego, CA, however our development team members work from home at locations across the United States.

In this role, a typical day will include:

Working as a development team member of our 18-member Scrum Agile development team. The team includes both new developers and highly skilled software architects. We meet daily for standup meetings and have continuous availability through MS Teams. You will be assigned refined and detailed software development tasks for the design, implementation, dev test of JavaScript and Java backend web applications. You will make use of virtual machines on your assigned laptop, and our cloud hosted continuous integration environment to develop software. In our Scrum process we seek to refine all assigned tasks to small well defined user stories that on average take 1-2 days to complete. This level of refinement and detail helps developers better understand their tasks and productively complete one well defined small task at a time.

Qualifications:

• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain a Secret clearance

• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret Level Security Clearance (being currently in possession of a clearance is a plus)

• BA/BS (or equivalent experience) in computer science

• 1-5 years of experience in software development

• Languages: Java, JavaScript (school-based experience - 3 years)

• Container based software development (0-3 years)

• JBoss Application Server (0-3 years)

• Ability to communicated clearly and concisely to describe technical problems and solutions.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience or knowledge of configuring DevSecOps pipelines

• Amazon Cloud

• Service Mix

• GeoServer GIS

• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services: Web Map Service (WMS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Feature Service (WFS)

• Quarkus

• METOC Domain Experience

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages

• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays