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Operational Systems Engineer

VTG Defense
Chantilly, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/23/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/23/2026
Overview

Byte Systems, a subsidiary of VTG, is seeking an Operational Systems Engineer in Chantilly, VA.


What will you do?

  • Contribute to the design, development, and testing of applications using modern standards
  • Collaborate on System Design and Architecture
  • Translate user requirements into technical requirements
  • Share O&M responsibilities with teammates
  • Investigate and seek new and innovative ways to improve application development
  • Provide on call support to mission systems as needed

Do you have what it takes?

  • Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance, with polygraph.
  • Background in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Cyber Forensics, Engineering, or other related discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training and work/military experience
  • 7 years experience working in software engineering, application development and/or web application development and deployment
  • 7 years experience with Object Oriented Programming such as Python or Ruby
  • 7 years experience in full stack development (Javascript, VueJS, NodeJS, Angular, HTML, CSS, etc)
  • Strong foundation in Linux * Experience with AWS Elastic Cloud 2, AWS Lambdas, SQS, Apache HTTPD
  • Experience with Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
  • Experience with source code management tool such as GitHub, GitLab, Git source code version control software
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology and experience working in an Agile team environment
  • Familiarity with working with data in varying encodings and character sets
  • Familiarity with Restful web services
  • Strong customer service skills

Desired Requirements:

  • Experience with Rails, Ruby, Rake in varying versions
  • Behavior and Test-Driven Development using Cucumber, RSpec, and supporting libraries
  • Experience with Bootstrap, Material UI or Tailwind
  • Experience with Apache Solr
  • Experience with software design patterns and principles
  • Experience with software configuration management
  • SQL/DML/DDL
  • Automation - CI/CD (Jenkins)

VT Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.


 

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