Principal Computer Scientist

VOR Technology

• $130K — $155K *
Fort George G Meade, MD 20755In-Person
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph required
  • 12 years of software development experience (Bachelor's degree in Computer Science substitutes for 2 years)
  • 9 years of experience designing, coding, testing, and debugging software on Windows or UNIX operating systems
  • Proficient in JAVA (various versions) for standalone programs, applets, and web applications
  • Understanding of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) patterns
  • Experience developing and deploying web applications and WAR files
  • Familiar with build tools like Ant and Maven, and distributed application technologies like JMS and CORBA

Responsibilities

  • Provide comprehensive life-cycle support for software functionality
  • Engage directly with customers and end-users to identify requirements
  • Ensure high quality in software development and deployment processes
  • Optimize application performance through administration of Apache and Tomcat
  • Develop shell scripts and manage software related tasks efficiently
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate software components
  • Support and maintain databases including Oracle 11g/12c, ensuring backup and recovery processes

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Opportunities for career advancement
  • Continuous education and training support
  • Collaborative team culture
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Principal Computer Scientist will provide full system and software life-cycle support for incremental software functionality. A strong background with Unix/Linux operation systems is required. The candidate should be self-motivated, enjoy working directly with the customer and with the end-users and value high quality software.

Qualifications

*All Candidates must have a TS/SCI clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph
  • Twelve (12) years' software development experience (Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science can substitute for 2 years' experience).
  • Minimum of 9 years' experience with designing, coding, testing, and debugging software to run under Microsoft Windows (XP or later) or UNIX (Solaris 8 or later, Redhat LINUX) Operating System.
  • Understanding of JAVA (1.4, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7) technologies to include JAVA stand-alone programs, applets, servlets, web programming, back-end database repository, OOD, debugging, testing and documentation.
  • OOD common patterns (Singleton, Iterator, Observer, Factory, Memento, etc.).
  • Experience developing web apps and deploying WAR files.
  • Web presentation experience (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CGI, Java GUI frameworks (Swing, AWT, MVC).JUNIT tests
  • Experience with build tools (Ant, Maven), XML, Java Message Service (JMS), and CORBA for distributed application development.
  • Apache and Tomcat administration (performance tuning, high availability).
  • Oracle 11g/12c experience (including OEM, DataGuard and RMAN).
  • Familiarity with internet protocols (SMTP, HTTP/HTTPS, LDAP, SFTP/SSH, SSL, NFS, NTP, DNS/NIS).
  • Shell scripting (sh/ksh/csh/bash), Perl, and PHP.


Additional Information

Clearance Requirement: Active TS/SCI with Full Scope clearance
* US citizenship is required.

* Ladders Estimates

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