Overview

Acuity is growing and looking to hire additonal developers to support one of our premier federal clients. 

The Client requires support to perform development and operations and maintenance (O&M) activities for Sponsor’s applications. The Client’s office is building a new solution for an internal customer. The new solution includes the establishment of an instantiation of an existing application with full code access that runs on a Linux server via Firefox only. This application requires customization to the front-end and back-end, as well as migration to the cloud in order to improve the customer’s administrative and operational efficiencies. The Client needs skills in Ruby on Rails front-end development and SQL database creation, customization, and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• The candidate shall translate Client’s business process requirements into the application development to automate or facilitate creating improved solutions for key mission needs.
• The candidate shall develop new, as well as integrate across existing, customized applications and web services to include implementing and integrating storage, backend services, and front interface development (user and application interfaces- UI and API).
• The candidate shall keep the Client’s PM and the customer points of contacts abreast of development activities, and advise on technology options and their trade-offs.
• The candidate shall work collaboratively with the Client’s PM, development partners, and the customer points of contacts.
• The candidate shall migrate tools, applications, and projects to a cloud environment.
• The candidate shall work with SQL and other modern database technologies to create, customize, and maintain data storage for applications.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing web applications and web services.
• Demonstrated experience using Ruby and Angular Rails for developing User Interface (U/I).
• Demonstrated experience with MySQL and SOLR.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining a back-end SQL database.
• Demonstrated experience with SQL server.
• Demonstrated experience with Linux and Windows Cloud Server management.
• Demonstrated experience managing cloud infrastructure through cloud-native scripting languages.
• Demonstrated experience with Splunk (for logs).
• Demonstrated experience with cross-domain solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS developing and maintaining web applications.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining applications to meet accessibility standards (Section 508).

Preferred Skills:

Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include:

• Demonstrated experience with Client’s security requirements to include data protection. 
• Demonstrated experience with security tools such as EC2, IDAM, Secrets Manager, or Health Check.
• Demonstrated experience with basic project management principles.
• Demonstrated experience with integrating customer applications using web services.
• Demonstrated experience with Client’s security and accreditation process.
• Demonstrated experience working both collaboratively and independently.
• Demonstrated experience migrating an application to cloud services.
• Demonstrated experience with JAVA, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• Demonstrated experience with AI/ML methodologies and techniques.

Clearance Requirement:

• Active TS/SCI w/Poly.

About Acuity Inc

Acuity is a leading management and technology consulting firm that specializes in serving the federal government. Our innovative, collaborative and rewarding work environment has earned repeat honors from the Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work and SmartCEO Corporate Culture awards. 

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.