Full Stack Platform Developer (remote)

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:

NACLC (T3)

Job Family:

Cloud

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Continuous Integrations, Git, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Software Testing Tools

Certifications:

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Full Stack Platform Developer with a strong background in quality-assurance and testing to join our Cloud Platform team supporting the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

In this role you will work alongside talented full stack and infrastructure developers and engineers as part of an Agile platform team streamlining software delivery and application hosting using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Your primary focus will be on the improvement of automated testing for all layers of our platform stack while assisting with the continual improvement and development of our internal developer platform. You will be expected to take charge, implement robust testing components, and share knowledge and direction for our internal development practices.

Work Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this role.

HOW A FULL STACK PLATFORM DEVELOPER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:​

• Develop and articulate a clear direction for the improvement of our software, integration, and API testing capabilities
• Implement an assortment of robust quality assurance and testing processes and practices across our platform application layer
• Work closely with other platform developers and engineers to understand challenges in order to implement incremental solutions to our development process and incorporate proven testing strategies
• Collect, report on, and provide observability over quality assurance and testing metrics
• Assist in the collaborative design of platform application layer features and end user features
• Develop front and back-end solutions using microservices in NodeJS hosted in AWS Elastic Container Services (ECS)
• Consume a variety of SQL and No-SQL database management systems including document, key-value, and time series data
• Produce and consume data in lightweight data-interchange formats such as JSON and XML
• Maintain code integrity and organization
• Assist in the regular remediation of security and dependency update alerts
• Work with product owners and other development team members to determine new features and user stories needed in new/revised applications or large/complex development projects
• Take tasks from requirements to deployment
• Respond to trouble/support issues anywhere in the stack
• Create and update documentation
• Participate in all team planning, product demonstration and team retrospectives

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

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