Senior Software Developer / Infrastructure Currency Engineer

Client: Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Program: Common API Services (CAS)
Openings: 1
Location: Remote – United States / Washington, DC as required
Government Site: IRS, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224
Work Arrangement: Primarily Remote/occasional on-site support
Minimum Experience: 5+ years
Candidate Pay Range: $72.29–$75.12/hour
Position Status: Contingent upon contract award

Position Summary

SMX Services & Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Developer / Infrastructure Currency Engineer to support application-level technical currency for the IRS Common API Services environment.

The successful candidate will perform software-engineering modifications necessary to keep Java, Spring Boot, middleware, OpenShift, and Linux-hosted applications current, secure, compatible, and supportable.

This role focuses on application-level technical currency, including Java/JDK upgrades, runtime upgrades, software-library and dependency remediation, certificate-related changes, interface and schema updates, and compatibility with OpenShift and RHEL/Linux environments.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant application/software engineering experience.

• Java/J2EE.

• Spring Boot.

• JDK upgrades.

• Java runtime upgrades.

• Software-library upgrades.

• Application dependency management.

• Dependency vulnerability remediation.

• IBM webMethods or comparable enterprise middleware.

• Application certificate changes.

• Application credential and secret dependencies.

• Interface modifications.

• Schema modifications.

• Secure software-development practices.

• Red Hat OpenShift.

• Kubernetes.

• RHEL/Linux.

• Git/GitHub.

• CI/CD process familiarity.

• Developer-level testing and validation.

• Rollback planning.

• Application configuration management.

• Application dependency inventories.

• Technical documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Upgrade application Java/JDK versions.

• Support Java and application-runtime currency.

• Support middleware-version currency.

• Upgrade application libraries and dependencies.

• Identify obsolete or unsupported software dependencies.

• Remediate vulnerable application dependencies.

• Support application certificate-renewal changes.

• Support application credential and secret changes.

• Implement interface modifications.

• Implement schema changes.

• Perform secure-coding remediation.

• Evaluate application compatibility with OpenShift and RHEL/Linux environments.

• Conduct developer-level validation.

• Support application release preparation.

• Prepare rollback and recovery inputs.

• Maintain application configuration baselines.

• Maintain application dependency inventories.

• Document technical-currency modifications.

• Produce technical remediation evidence.

• Support modernization and technical-currency work packages.

• Support Government technical reviews and deployment activities.

• Maintain technical and as-built documentation.

• Provide technical knowledge transfer when required.

Important Scope

This is an application-engineering role, not a dedicated infrastructure-administrator position.

Government personnel retain applicable responsibilities for infrastructure administration, cybersecurity administration, database administration, platform administration, CI/CD execution, formal testing, and production approval.

Location Requirement

The position is primarily remote within the United States.

The selected candidate must be capable of supporting the IRS Government site located at:

Internal Revenue Service
1111 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20224

Occasional on-site support may be required for technical-currency activities, deployments, troubleshooting, technical meetings, implementation events, or knowledge transfer.

Citizenship and Security

Candidate must be able to satisfy applicable IRS suitability, background investigation, PIV/SmartID, security training, Government system-access, and protected-information handling requirements.

No Secret or Top Secret clearance requirement has been identified.

Compensation

Candidate Pay Range: $72.29–$75.12/hour

Final compensation depends on experience, technical qualifications, employment classification, and final SMX approval.

Position is contingent upon contract award.