Software Developer (Systems Software)

Residency Status: ALL CANDIDATES MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN

Security Clearance: ALL Candidates MUST currently Possess an Active TS/SCI w/FS polygraph for consideration of this position.

Time Type: Full-Time, Daytime Schedule – 100% onsite

Travel Reimbursement: Yes (within a 50-mile radius to the worksite)

Company Benefits: Yes

Close Date: 4/24/26

Company Overview:

NAOVI (Novel Applications, Inc.) is a premier technology services company that provides solutions in the areas of Cyber Security, Information Management and Systems Integration. NAOVI is a business that combines experience, creativity, flexibility, pragmatism, and cost-effective solutions in order to deliver measurable business value to our clients.

Headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, NAOVI employs engineers, analysts, IT specialists and other professionals who strive to be the best at everything they do.

NAOVI is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. Visit our company website at www.novelapplications.com to review and apply for our current openings.

Job Description

NAOVI is seeking a Software Developer (Systems Software) to support a team specializing in designing, engineering, implementation, development and maintenance of enterprise quality mission systems, networks, and applications - DevOps position. The tasks are as follows:

Mandatory Skills

• Current Active TSSCI w/FS polygraph security clearance. Candidates without clearance will not be considered for this position.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing Cl/CD pipelines (Jenkins required).
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform (required).
• Demonstrated experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, 1AM, CloudWatch, and other core services.
• Demonstrated experience with containerization (such as Docker and Pod man).
• Strong scripting proficiency: Bash (required) and Python (required).
• Experience with database self-hosting including installation, configuration, backup/recovery, high availability, and performance tuning (PostgreSQL and MySQL).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems such as Prometheus/Alertmanager and CloudWatch.
• Demonstrated experience integrating and deploying diverse software systems: AWS cloud services, open-source applications, COTS/GOTS products, and custom applications.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, 1AM policies, and AWS architecture best practices.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and version control best practices.

Optional Skills

• Experience deploying and managing data platform components: Apache Spark, Tri no, Apache Ranger, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, data catalogs.
• Familiarity with data lakehouse architectures and supporting infrastructure.
• Experience with secrets management solutions (AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store).
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup strategies, and continuity planning.
• Familiarity with API gateways and modern microservices patterns.
• Experience with cost optimization practices in AWS.
• Background deploying and supporting Al/ML workloads or model serving infrastructure.
• Experience mentoring team members on DevOps and cloud best practices.
• Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.).
• Familiarity with additional monitoring tools (Grafana, ELK stack).
• Experience with integrating customer Enterprise services.

Company Benefits

• 401k
• Health, Dental and Vision
• Long-Term and Short-Term Disability
• 3 Weeks’ Paid Vacation
• 5 Day Paid Sick Leave
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Travel Reimbursement (50-mile radius to the work location).