Senior Technical Specialist - Military Veterans

• Conducts thorough testing, including unit testing and alpha testing to ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable, and robust software solutions.


• Ensures the stability, security, and availability of the database to support critical business operations and perform regular backups, monitor performance, and optimize database configurations to ensure seamless functionality.


• Reviews and tests large-scale web applications, ensuring adherence to coding standards, security best practices, and performance requirements.


• Prepares and/or develops detailed specifications for new applications, ensuring clear and comprehensive documentation of requirements, design, and functionality.


• Evaluates existing applications to refactor, update and add new features to an existing web application; enhance user experience and performance of existing web applications through continuous improvement and modernization.


• Monitors and maintains network infrastructure, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability, identify areas for improvement and implement solutions to enhance network stability and efficiency.


• Provides technical support to end-users, addressing hardware, software, and connectivity issues. 


• Maintains comprehensive and detailed documentation of system configurations, changes, and troubleshooting procedures, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum efficiency.


• Collaborates with IT team to plan and implement infrastructure upgrades, install, configure, and maintain server hardware and operating systems. 


• Implements and enforces security measures to safeguard sensitive data, manage users access privileges, and monitor for potential security breaches.


• Identifies opportunities for automation and implement scripts or tools to streamline database administration task.

• Secret Clearance.


• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field. 


• Minimum of 7 years’ experience working in Java development or Systems Administration.


• Proficient in Windows, Linus, or Unix operating systems. 


• Strong knowledge of networking concepts and protocols. 


• Proven experience as a database administrator, managing and maintaining database in a production environment.


• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle and Postgres using SQL/HQL. 


• Excellent problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills.


• Familiarity with the “Wild Fly” application server. 


• Experience using tools supporting Java Enterprise Edition such as Hibernate, Java Servlet Specification, and Java EE Context Dependency Injection.


• Experience diagnosing and resolving database-related issues, including performance problems, data corruption and connectivity errors. 


• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret Clearance. 

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or equivalent work experience.


• TS Clearance with SCI Eligibility 


• Extensive proficiency in SQL and experience with Oracle or Postgres.


• Military experience/familiarity.


• Ability to ‘own’ and proactively drive work.


• Strong time management and organization skills.