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Job Summary
Company: Ultra Intelligence & Communications
Mission SolutionsPowering Decision
Join the team redefining defense technology. From engineering systems that save lives to leading programs that change the battlefieldfind your place in the future of defense.
Mission Solutions
By joining our Mission Solutions business you will be a member of a team dedicated to providing innovative solutions that streamline the preparation and execution of intricate mission-critical operations. We focus on enhancing situational awareness tactical command and control and seamless video data exchange capabilities within a dynamic multi-domain environment.
Job Description
The Mission:The U.S. military NATO and allied partners depend on secure unbroken COMSEC infrastructure to operate in contested environments. Ultra Intelligence & Communications builds the systems that protect that infrastructure from NSA High Assurance cryptographic platforms to the software that manages how cryptographic keys are accounted for distributed and retired across an entire national security enterprise.
CARDS the COMSEC Accounting Reporting and Distribution System is the operational backbone of that lifecycle. It is production software fielded today trusted by real customers to manage the most sensitive material in defense communications. This role puts you on the team that owns it.
What Youll Work On:
CARDS is a full-stack enterprise application at the center of DoD COMSEC lifecycle management. You will work across its layers:
A relational database core (Oracle) built on PL/SQL logic that enforces cryptographic material accountability rules
A Java back end that processes lifecycle transactions key issuance transfer destruction and audit
A browser-based front end (JavaScript HTML/CSS) used by COMSEC Managers at installations worldwide
Integration layers connecting CARDS to broader key management infrastructure including KMI and EKMS nodes
DevSecOps pipelines and validation tooling that keep the system deployable and auditable
What Youll Do:
- Design and implement software features that satisfy stakeholder and system-level requirements across the full CARDS stack
- Write and maintain PL/SQL stored procedures Java services and JavaScript front-end components
- Debug and resolve production issues against a system that cannot fail field customers depend on it
- Participate in software verification and validation including functional systems and security testing
- Maintain software quality processes and configuration management across release baselines
- Contribute to technical design documentation test procedures and training materials
- Support customer onsite engagements understanding how operators actually use the system informs better engineering
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Systems Engineering or a related field
- 13 years of professional software development experience
- Proficiency in at least one of: Java PL/SQL or JavaScript (full-stack front-end or back-end)
- Experience with relational databases Oracle PostgreSQL SQL Server or MariaDB
- Familiarity with web application frameworks and server-side architectures
- U.S. Citizenship (required); ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance
Highly Desired Experience:
- Knowledge of COMSEC operations key management or NSA-governed cryptographic material handling
- Experience with Apache Tomcat or similar servlet containers
- Familiarity with jQuery AJAX and JSON-based API patterns
- Exposure to DevSecOps practices CI/CD automated testing artifact management
- Experience with virtualization and VM management environments
- Comfort presenting technical material to non-technical customers or program stakeholders
Why This Role Is Different:
Most enterprise software engineers spend careers building systems no one can name. CARDS is not that. It is a named fielded system with a direct line to operational COMSEC accountability across the U.S. defense establishment.
Here is what makes this role genuinely different:
- Real mission stakes the software you write helps ensure cryptographic material is accounted for not lost or compromised
- Product ownership you are on a small focused team with meaningful influence over architecture and features not a 500-person program
- Long-term trajectory CARDS sits at the intersection of KMI modernization and OTNK evolution; the roadmap is significant
- Depth over breadth you will develop real expertise in COMSEC lifecycle systems not just generalist enterprise patterns
- Customer proximity you will interact with the operators and program managers who use the system closing the loop between code and mission
If you want to build software that protects the communications infrastructure of the U.S. military and its allies and you want to own that work not just contribute to it this is your role.
Notice
Due to the nature of the programs we deliver for our customers candidates may need to obtain the relevant security clearance or handle export-controlled material as defined by the roles requirements.
Our Benefits
Every employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits including:
Annual Bonus - Annual Bonus Performance Related
Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO) package plus 11 company holidays
Early finish on Friday
401K w/ company match
Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits
Student Loan Assistance Program
Array of voluntary benefit offerings
Ultra I&C is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability veteran status or other legally protected state or federal classes.
We provide affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act. If you need an accommodation in any part of the application process email
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About Company
Ultra I&C delivers global mission-critical intelligence and secure communications solutions to protect what matters most.
