
Backend Developer
ManTech
ManTech is seeking a collaborative Backend Developer to join their team in Columbia, MD. This role involves developing and deploying backend services for secure, mission-driven applications, enhancing system reliability, performance, and authorization in a secure enterprise setting. The developer will contribute to enterprise infrastructure capabilities within the Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) organization, working with customers, Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), and vendors to advance EIT capabilities across Data Center & Compute Services.
Responsibilities include building and maintaining backend service components, maintaining system inventories and documentation, integrating service mesh technologies like Istio, utilizing Kafka for data streaming, using Flux, Kubectl, and Kustomize for GitOps-based deployments, leveraging Docker for containerization and Maven for build automation, collaborating with teams using Jira and Confluence, conducting development and analysis in Linux environments using Python and IntelliJ IDEA (IDE), participating in Secure the Enterprise (STE) and Secure the Network (STN) activities, reviewing Xacta notices, completing SEAR audit log records, and addressing POAMs related to IAVA findings.
Minimum Qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree with twelve (12) years of technical experience, OR an Associate’s degree with fifteen (15) years of technical experience, OR a High School Diploma/GED with twenty (20) years of technical experience.
Preferred Qualifications include experience managing service meshes and Kubernetes clusters with Istio and Rancher, proficiency in Redis, Kafka, Docker, Maven, and GitOps workflows using Flux, familiarity with Kubectl, Kustomize, and Linux-based development, experience using Jira, Confluence, and IntelliJ IDEA, Python scripting skills, and familiarity with Gatekeeper, Xacta, SEAR, LatteArt, STE/STN activities, and POAM management.
Clearance Requirements: Must have a current/active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Physical Requirements: Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time, occasionally move about inside the office, and frequently communicate with co-workers, management, and customers.
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