COMPANY OVERVIEW

SteerBridge Strategies is a CVE-Verified Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Small Business, (SDVOSB) providing a wide array of professional services to the U.S. Government and private sector. We leverage decades of federal acquisition and procurement experience to deliver best in class commercial solutions for government agencies while maximizing veteran talent.

POSITION OVERVIEW

SteerBridge Strategies is supporting a national-level program for the Veterans Benefits Administration (“VBA”) to modernize its delivery of educational benefits to Veterans. The Digital GI Bill (DGIB) is a top priority for our strategic partner, Accenture Federal Services (AFS). As partners, SteerBridge and AFS are looking for the most talented IT professionals to join this dynamic, multi-year opportunity.

The VBA is responsible for administering the department's programs that provide financial and other forms of assistance to veterans, their dependents, and survivors. Claims are currently processed at Regional Processing Offices by Claims Examiners. The VBA envisions improved customer service and mission accomplishment by digitizing the process. This project will provide a user-friendly service for beneficiaries to apply, withdraw, amend, transfer or perform other actions with improved timeliness and accuracy of award decisions. Due to the technical deficit in the VBA’s application and IT infrastructure, implementing these changes will be challenging and under an aggressive timeline.

REQUIRED

• Must be a US Citizen, Dual Citizen, or Green Card Holder (Permanent Resident).
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or other Engineering or Technical discipline is required plus a minimum of five (5) years related work experience. Eight (8) years of may be substituted for education, for a total of thirteen (13) years of work experience.
• Must be eligible and able to pass a Public Trust background check.
• Must be able to work onsite at the Chantilly, VA at least one (1) week per month.
• Must be able to work East Coast business hours.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Experience in performance test planning, execution, and validation, capacity planning, and application performance management.
• Experience reviewing the performance testing strategy, audit the existing NFR’s, and identify gaps in performance testing execution approach.
• Experience in understanding of performance best practices (e.g., JVM settings,Network Variability impact on Performance of distributed systems).
• Proficiency in JMeter, Neoload, Loadrunner, API’s performance tuning, AWS / cloud ecosystem, microservices platform performance analysis.
• Leveraging profiling tools (i.e. Dynatrace, OpenSearch, Splunk) to analyze and define performance characteristics of an application, recommend enhancements, and trouble shoot bottlenecks.
• Performance troubleshooting (heap dump & thread dump analysis).
• Application and infrastructure scaling analysis and recommendations.

COMPENSATION

A salary commensurate with background and experience will be offered.

BENEFITS

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) with matching
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Federal Holidays

SteerBridge Strategies is committed to equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. SteerBridge Strategies will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Compensation package:

• Yearly pay

Experience level:

• 5 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• SQL: 5 years (Required)
• Selenium: 5 years (Required)
• Test automation: 5 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Chantilly, VA 20151 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Chantilly, VA 20151: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chantilly, VA 20151