Operational Systems Engineer

VTG Defense
United States, Virginia, Chantilly
14291 Park Meadow Drive (Show on map)
Oct 21, 2025
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)