Overview: Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking an Application Engineer to support the IT program at a major national laboratory. The Application Engineer will work along with The Missions Software Architecture Research and Development organization partners with programs to provide innovative software solutions that address critical national security problems. Responsibilities: Provide software maintenance activities implementing general use software languages. Customer and team collaboration efforts to capture requirements, create software designs and specifications, and related communications are part of normal maintenance activities. Cyber and industry standard Dev/Sec/Ops knowledge and adherence will be used in code development efforts. Ad hoc coding efforts may be requested to meet certain business needs. Qualifications: Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related degree plus 1 year of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, additional relevant experience totaling 7 years is applicable. U.S. Citizenship is required per contract to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy Q clearance. C/C++, Java and Javascript frameworks such as React, Angular or Node DevOps technologies including Gradle, Gitlab-CI, Docker, and Kubernetes Automated testing React experience required Knowledge and use of specified software languages and libraries. Knowledge and use of industry standard code versioning systems is required. Adherence to team coding and operations standards Use and participation of other code development methodologies and project management deliverables (e.g. Kanban, Agile, Waterfall) Use of team coding standards is required. Documented outcomes of unit test, software test, systems test, and production test Desired Skills Typescript experience Kubernetes & Docker experience Gitlab & Gradle experience Familiarity with service-based architectures (e.g. SOA, microservices) Familiarity with inter-process communication patterns, techniques and technologies Familiiarty with data storage architectures (relational, non-relational -e.g. document, wide-column) Demonstrate strong teaming skills About Us: Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2024. It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.