Description

SAIC is seeking an AWS Software Developer with Java and/or C skills who will serve as a member of the NASA Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Ground Project, Data Products and Management Services (DPMS) team leading the development and maintenance of the Government Resource for Algorithm Verification, Independent Testing, and Evaluation (GRAVITE) system.

JPSS is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationâ€™s (NOAA) next-generation operational Earth observation program that acquires and distributes global environmental data primarily from multiple polar-orbiting satellites. The program plays a critical role to NOAAâ€™s mission to understand and predict changes in weather, climate, oceans and coasts, and the space environment, which support the Nationâ€™s economy and protect lives and property.

The activities for this work require a qualified software engineer to support the planning, implementation, and growth of the Product Data Quality System (PDQS) within the AWS cloud infrastructure. Participating in the continuous integration and deployment methodology for product monitoring, alerts, trending, and plotting. Work alongside architecture and engineering teams to design and implement Task Detector, File Set Data Extractor, Data Quality Analyzer, Alerting & Monitoring. Implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to include development of the PDQS software backend services and/or frontend UIs.

This system will be developed in the NESDIS Cloud Infrastructure Service (NCIS) as a pilot, and then migrated to the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF)

The work activities may include:

- Designing, developing and testing of Java based applications in an integrated development environment.

- Determine future builds based on customer needs.

- Assess and update processes on the development team based on NASA standards.

- Development of web based GUIs.

- Developing and testing of very large and very dynamic databases that have many frequent updates â€“ PostgreSQL

experience preferred.

- Assisting the team with the management and performance of the large databases of observed and model-generated data for quality control, archival and efficient retrieval.

- Supporting the I&T team on integration and testing.

- Helping to optimize the application code for high performance on LINUX servers.

- Determining the priority of discrepancies.

- Building schedules.

- Assessing and updating software documentation.

- Helping to integrate the Java and PostgreSQL based applications in an integrated development environment.

- Migrating existing systems into AWS Cloud.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience
Years of experience accepted in lieu of degree.

Qualifications:

Responsible for supporting the setup, maintaining, and evolving the cloud infrastructure of web applications. Understand the core AWS services and apply best practices:

Experience designing and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like S3, Lambda, SQS EC2, ELB, and RDS
Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications
Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Maven
Experience with Agile methodology and DevOps and CI/CD pipeline, including using automation tools, e.g. CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD pipeline etcExperience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Prometheus
An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
Knowledge of one or more of the most-used programming languages used for cloud computing (i.e., SDK, Java 8+, Python, NodeJS, Spring Boot, Hibernete/JPA, javascript, CSS, HTML, C/C++, PHP, SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
Experience of developing microservices, RESTful APIs etc.
Experience with using a messaging system like ActiveMQ or Kafka or SQS etc.
Experience with Relational and NoSQL databases
A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows, including shell scripting
Experience in troubleshooting distributed systems
Proficiency in script development and scripting languages
Experience with a version control system, e.g. GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Subversion, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild
The ability to be a team player
Strong communication and collaboration skills

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are more than 26,500 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a respectful work culture based on diversity, equity, and inclusion that values all contributors. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.

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