Full Spectrum I.T Lifecycle Portfolio Management Support

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.

Introduction
The Contractor shall provide IT resources to support the Sponsor's software development lifecycle, from requirements elicitation through project management, accreditation, and deployment, to Operations and Maintenance (O&M), as dictated by the application portfolio. As a Business Enterprise (BE) within a Working Capital Fund (WCF), the Sponsor provides services to Mission Partners through Service Level Agreements (SLAs). These SLAs serve as binding agreements that outline the specific products and services to be provided, as well as the associated costs. Maintaining BE solvency is crucial, and the Sponsor relies on these SLAs to ensure fiscal responsibility and full cost recovery for services. The Sponsor’s portfolio includes services to internal Mission Partners and externally to agencies in the IC. The Sponsor’s current development efforts consist of approximately (8) systems; current O&M efforts consists of approximately twenty-eight (15) systems. The portfolio of projects constantly change, with new agreements negotiated or reduced at any time.

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience:  

• Demonstrated experience identifying and validating requirements for SharePoint sites service now, saves and custom applications.
• Demonstrated experience as a SharePoint Designer.
• Demonstrated experience leading matrixed technical resources to deliver solutions.
• Demonstrated experience adding new features, optimizing, scaling, or improving stability and performance of Applications.
• Demonstrated experience using JavaScript (JS).
• Demonstrated experience developing on low-code, no-code platforms (i.e., ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Sharepoint)
• Demonstrated experience automating configuration and provisioning of cloud resources.
• Demonstrated experience configuring and administrating Amazon Linux, and Windows OS.
• Demonstrated experience automating and scripting using Bash and Terraform.
• Demonstrated experience installing and managing Apache, Tomcat and Express servers.
• Demonstrated experience administering databases like MySQL.
• Demonstrated experience administering no-SQL databases like MongoDB.
• Demonstrated experience providing instruction, and mentoring as relates to Agile development methods and technical skills development.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects, tracking schedules and milestones.
• Demonstrated experience developing scope, schedules, and cost estimates.
• Demonstrated experience applying usability and accessibility standards, user research, and user-centered design principles for software development to optimize application interface designs.
• Demonstrated experience providing system architectural guidance and recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience providing application support identifying and validating requirements for Salesforce.
• Demonstrated experience providing database support to include database patches, installations, data and database migrations, and backup and recovery database maintenance.
• Demonstrated experience performing regression and unit and acceptance testing (UAT).
• Demonstrated experience with development languages Maven, Java, NodeJS, Angular, Javascript, HTML, CSS, JSON, Yaml, XML, XSL, AngularJS, Bootstrap, JQuery, SQL, or Python.
•  Demonstrated experience performing analysis of system vulnerability scans and recommending necessary remediation based on scan result analysis.
•  Demonstrated experience with Jira.
•  Demonstrated experience with Confluence.
•  Demonstrated knowledge of DEVOPS tools such as Jenkins and Github.
•  Demonstrated knowledge of installing and maintaining PKI certificates.
•  Demonstrated experience with the installation and maintenance of COTS IT products. Unclassified
• Demonstrated experience managing and delivering Agile consulting engagements.
•  Demonstrated experience providing security Oracle Wallet and IIS server Certificate upgrades for database servers.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical support for integration and deployment of applications into a cloud production environment.
• Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining automated test scripts to test new or existing applications for compliance with best practices.
•  Demonstrated experience with REST Web services and SOAP Web services.
• Demonstrated experience with Spring, Spring Security and Hibernate frameworks.
•  Demonstrated experience with AWS CloudFormation Templates, Load Balancer, Autoscaling, Security Groups, S3 and KMS.
•  Demonstrated experience OpenSSL and TLS encryption protocols.

Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience: 

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US Citizenship:

• This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.

Security Clearance:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Travel: 

• This position is expected to be onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA).   Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance.