• Location: Albany, New York
• Remote: Hybrid
• Type: Contract
• Job #12881

DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Jira Migration Subject Matter Expert for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY 

*This role is hybrid: on-site twice a week and every other Friday
*Only U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders
 

Job Description

As a Jira Migration Subject Matter Expert, you will lead the design, engineering, execution, and validation of a requirements migration from an enterprise application lifecycle management, requirements, issue-tracking, or work-management platform into Atlassian Jira. You will own Jira target design and collaborate with source-system subject matter experts, delivery teams, and Jira stakeholders. Additional migrations may follow.

What you'll do:

• Lead discovery and migration planning with source-system subject matter experts, delivery teams, and Jira stakeholders.
• Define scope, dependencies, risks, cutover, and rollback approach.
• Design Jira target projects, issue types, fields, workflows, permissions, and relationships to support requirements and traceability needs.
• Map and transform source records, custom attributes, status histories, links, comments, attachments, and other agreed-upon metadata into Jira.
• Document platform limitations.
• Select and configure migration utilities.
• Build and execute REST API integrations, scripts, and repeatable extraction, transformation, and loading processes.
• Perform proof-of-concept and pilot migrations.
• Reconcile record counts and field-level results.
• Resolve defects and support user acceptance testing.
• Execute production migration and post-cutover stabilization while minimizing disruption to program delivery.
• Produce mapping specifications, migration runbooks, validation evidence, operational documentation, and knowledge transfer.
• Create source-to-target inventory and mapping specifications.
• Develop Jira target configuration design.
• Create migration scripts and utilities and document repeatable migration procedures.
• Produce pilot migration findings, reconciliation and validation reports, production cutover plan, and stabilization documentation.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 8+ years of related experience.
• Demonstrated hands-on ownership of at least one completed migration from a comparable enterprise platform into Jira; you must be able to explain personally executed technical work.
• Strong Jira administration and configuration skills, including custom fields, issue types, workflows, schemes, permissions, and relationships.
• Experience migrating requirements or comparable structured work items, including field mapping, hierarchy/links, attachments, and historical data considerations.
• Experience with Jira REST APIs, migration utilities, scripting or automation such as Python, Groovy, or Java, and data transformation.
• Experience designing and executing pilot migrations, reconciliation, validation, production cutover, and issue remediation.
• Ability to partner with source-system subject matter experts and translate business and technical requirements into target Jira design.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Nice to have:

• Migration experience from IBM ELM/RTC/EWM, Azure DevOps, Rally, HP ALM, or other enterprise ALM or work-management platforms.
• Experience migrating requirements with traceability, parent-child relationships, cross-references, and custom workflows.
• Jira Cloud and/or Jira Data Center migration experience; experience with Jira ecosystem apps as appropriate.
• Experience with large-scale or multi-project migrations and regulated government or healthcare environments.
• Atlassian certifications or comparable proven expertise.

DataStaff offers W-2 employment opportunities with a competitive benefits package. Many of our positions include access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays. Recognizing that many of our assignments are long-term, DataStaff also offers a 401(k) retirement savings plan, with employees becoming eligible after six months of employment.

• Location: Albany, New York
• Remote: Hybrid
• Type: Contract
• Job #12880

DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Resource Management Analyst for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY.

* This position is hybrid

*Only U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders

Job Description

The Resource Management Analyst supports staffing operations for a large program by coordinating candidate activities, interview scheduling, onboarding and offboarding, workforce tracking, immigration-related administrative support, and resource management reporting. You will work with hiring managers, staffing vendors, Human Resources, and program stakeholders to maintain accurate records, support staffing activities, and provide timely reporting.

What you'll do

• Maintain accurate candidate tracking records throughout the recruiting and selection process.
• Monitor candidate submissions, interview status, feedback, offers, and anticipated start dates.
• Coordinate with hiring managers and staffing vendors to facilitate timely candidate progression.
• Identify outstanding actions and follow up proactively to minimize delays in filling open positions.
• Maintain organized staffing documentation and update recruiting trackers and reports.
• Coordinate interview schedules among candidates, hiring managers, and interview panel members.
• Manage interview invitations, scheduling changes, and related communications.
• Track interview completion and facilitate timely collection of interview feedback.
• Communicate interview outcomes and next steps to appropriate stakeholders.
• Coordinate onboarding activities for employees and contractors.
• Track onboarding requirements, documentation, background investigation status, system access requests, and anticipated start dates.
• Work with internal teams and staffing vendors to resolve onboarding issues and facilitate timely starts.
• Coordinate offboarding activities, including required notifications, access termination requests, and administrative documentation.
• Maintain accurate records of staff arrivals, departures, and status changes.
• Maintain staffing rosters and resource tracking information across the program.
• Track staff assignments, organizational alignment, employment classifications, start dates, departures, and other workforce changes.
• Reconcile staffing records and identify discrepancies requiring resolution.
• Coordinate with program managers and other stakeholders to keep staffing information current and accurate.
• Support workforce reporting, staffing forecasts, and resource planning activities.
• Track visa expiration dates, extension milestones, documentation requests, and related deadlines.
• Coordinate with Human Resources, corporate immigration teams, managers, and staff to facilitate timely submission of required information.
• Maintain accurate and confidential immigration tracking records.
• Escalate potential delays or issues to appropriate stakeholders.
• Support established corporate immigration processes without providing immigration or legal advice.
• Prepare and maintain recurring staffing reports, dashboards, and status summaries.
• Monitor staffing activities, outstanding actions, and key milestones.
• Provide timely updates to Resource Management leadership and program stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve tracking processes, reporting accuracy, and administrative efficiency.
• Maintain confidentiality and ensure appropriate handling of personnel and candidate information.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Human Resources, Management, or a related field.
• Equivalent combinations of education and relevant professional experience may be considered.
• 3+ years of experience in resource management, staffing coordination, recruiting operations, Human Resources operations, or a related administrative function.
• Experience coordinating interviews, tracking candidates, and supporting staffing processes.
• Experience maintaining records, staffing rosters, or resource tracking systems.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, and Teams.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and meet established deadlines.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to interact professionally with managers, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
• Strong follow-through, problem-solving skills, and ability to work independently.
• Proactive and accountable, with strong ownership of assigned responsibilities.
• Highly organized and able to manage detailed information accurately.
• Collaborative and responsive to the needs of program leadership and stakeholders.
• Adaptable to changing priorities and staffing demands.
• Discreet and professional when handling confidential personnel information.
• Committed to process improvement and operational efficiency.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting staffing or resource management activities within a large IT program or government contracting environment.
• Experience coordinating onboarding and offboarding activities for employees and contractors.
• Experience supporting immigration-related administrative processes, including visa tracking and documentation coordination.
• Experience developing staffing reports, trackers, and operational metrics.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and data reconciliation.
• Experience working with multiple staffing vendors and coordinating high-volume recruiting activities.

DataStaff offers W-2 employment opportunities with a competitive benefits package. Many of our positions include medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays. Recognizing that many of our assignments are long-term, DataStaff also offers a 401(k) retirement savings plan, with employees becoming eligible after six months of employment.

• Location: Albany, New York
• Remote: Hybrid
• Type: Contract
• Job #12874

DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Designer for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY.

*This role is hybrid

Job Description

As a Senior Technical Designer, you will design, develop, and enhance complex components within a large-scale health coverage application. You will produce detailed technical designs, lead design discussions, investigate system behavior and impacts, and help ensure adherence to architectural and coding standards. This role requires expertise in Java, Spring, Hibernate, MuleSoft, REST/SOAP Web Services, and DB2.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and enhance complex application components.
• Collaborate with Technical Design Managers, Architects, Project Managers, and development teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Produce detailed low-level design artifacts.
• Lead technical design discussions.
• Investigate ambiguous problems and assess impacts across systems, data, and business processes.
• Ensure adherence to architectural and coding standards across the application.
• Work with rule-based engines, including Drools.
• Mentor junior developers.
• Apply AI tools to engineering tasks, including design, analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Communicate clear recommendations.
• Provide analytical, problem-solving, and communication expertise.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6–10 years of enterprise software development/design experience.
• Expert knowledge of Java, Spring, Hibernate, MuleSoft, REST/SOAP Web Services, and DB2.
• Strong experience producing detailed low-level design artifacts.
• Experience working with rule-based engines, including Drools.
• Demonstrated ability to investigate ambiguous problems and assess impacts across systems, data, and business processes.
• Proven experience leading technical discussions and mentoring junior developers.
• Practical experience applying AI tools to engineering tasks and engineering work.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical systems.

DataStaff offers W-2 employment opportunities with a competitive benefits package. Many of our positions include medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays. Recognizing that many of our assignments are long-term, DataStaff also offers a 401(k) retirement savings plan, with employees eligible after six months of employment.

• Location: Albany, New York
• Remote: Hybrid
• Type: Contract
• Job #12873

DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Junior Technical Designer for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY. 

*This role is hybrid

Job Description

As a Junior Technical Designer, you will support the design, development, and enhancement of application components within a large-scale enterprise application. Working under the guidance of senior technical designers and technical design managers, you will create technical documentation, develop application features, analyze issues, and help ensure solutions follow established standards. This role offers the opportunity to develop your skills in Java, Spring, Hibernate, REST/SOAP services, DB2, and enterprise-level software development.

What you'll do

• Assist senior technical designers in preparing technical design documents, including class diagrams, sequence diagrams, API specifications, and database models.
• Help translate functional and non-functional requirements into preliminary technical designs.
• Support design sessions by taking notes, preparing documentation, and completing assigned design activities.
• Contribute to developing application components using Java, Spring, Hibernate, REST/SOAP services, and DB2 under supervision.
• Implement assigned application features, enhancements, and fixes following established coding standards and best practices.
• Develop and maintain basic application workflows, integration components, and rule logic using Drools DRL and industry-standard patterns.
• Support the creation of authentication and authorization modules for various user roles.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback to strengthen technical quality and maintainability.
• Assist with defect triage by gathering logs, reproducing issues, and documenting findings.
• Support root cause analysis efforts led by senior technical designers, helping identify logic errors, design gaps, or requirement inconsistencies.
• Contribute to preparing solution options, documentation, and basic impact assessments.
• Implement approved fixes and workarounds under guidance from senior team members.
• Participate in daily status meetings with project managers, architects, and development teams to report progress and discuss challenges.
• Work closely with mid-level and senior developers to clarify tasks, understand requirements, and ensure aligned technical delivery.
• Assist in maintaining technical documentation and updating design artifacts as changes occur.
• Provide support for proofs of concept by researching tools, preparing prototypes, and documenting results.
• Stay current with relevant technologies, design practices, and development methodologies used in the application stack.
• Seek mentorship from senior technical designers and technical design managers to enhance technical competencies.
• Apply Java design patterns and engineering principles to improve code reliability and quality.
• Learn emerging engineering techniques, design patterns, and best practices relevant to the application systems.
• Use approved AI tools to support code review, impact analysis, test case generation, and exploration of design options, validating results with senior oversight.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3–6 years of software development or technical design experience, with internships and academic projects accepted.
• Familiarity with Java, Spring, Hibernate, REST/SOAP Web Services, and relational databases.
• Strong desire to learn and develop technical design skills in a large-scale system.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication abilities.
• Ability to follow instructions, ask clarifying questions, and collaborate effectively with senior technical staff.

Nice to have

• Exposure to rule engines such as Drools, API design, or enterprise application frameworks.
• Experience using AI tools for technical analysis or development support.

DataStaff offers W-2 employment opportunities with a competitive benefits package. Many of our positions include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays. Recognizing that many of our assignments are long-term, DataStaff also offers a 401(k) retirement savings plan, with employees becoming eligible after six months of employment.

 

• Location: Albany, New York
• Remote: Hybrid
• Type: Contract
• Job #12845

DataStaff, Inc. is seeking an Operations Analytics Lead for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY.

Job Description:  

The Operations Analytics Lead will drive operational analytics, observability, systems administration coordination, and KPI/OKR governance across enterprise applications and technology services. You will use tools such as Splunk and Dynatrace to analyze operational metrics, improve visibility into application health and infrastructure performance, and support service reliability and business outcomes. This role partners with application, infrastructure, development, security, and business teams to identify issues, guide root-cause analysis, and transition repeatable metrics and reporting activities to Operations.

What you'll do

• Define and maintain metric definitions, targets, owners, data sources, collection schedules, and validation controls for KPIs and OKRs.
• Consolidate KPI/OKR data and communicate performance against objectives.
• Develop and optimize SPL searches, reports, alerts, dashboards, and scheduled reports using Splunk Enterprise.
• Analyze application, system, security, and integration logs, including HTTP status codes, errors, transaction failures, ingestion trends, and recurring patterns.
• Use analytical capabilities for application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, service-flow analysis, infrastructure visibility, anomaly detection, and alerting.
• Correlate performance indicators with logs and events to help isolate service degradation and accelerate root-cause analysis.
• Build operational scorecards and dashboards using tools such as Power BI, Splunk dashboards, and Excel.
• Track availability, latency, error rates, incident trends, SLA/SLO performance, capacity, workload, and automation outcomes.
• Coordinate and support administration of Linux/Unix and Windows environments, application servers, middleware, and integration platforms.
• Support service configuration, access and permissions, certificates, scheduled jobs, deployments, patching coordination, capacity monitoring, and environment health checks.
• Use Shell/Bash, Python, and, where appropriate, Java or API-based integrations to automate data collection, log processing, recurring reports, health checks, alert enrichment, and routine operational tasks.
• Partner with application and infrastructure teams to investigate incidents, correlate logs and metrics, identify root causes, document corrective actions, and track recurring issues through resolution.
• Support incident, problem, and change-management processes.
• Review monitoring coverage, alert thresholds, dashboards, and escalation paths.
• Reduce noisy or duplicate alerts, improve signal quality, and support service availability, resilience, and operational readiness.
• Manage milestones, dependencies, risks, action items, and reporting commitments.
• Work with business owners, engineering teams, application support, and leadership to establish accountability and communicate operational performance.
• Lead cross-functional tracking and coordination of production issues, application defects, incident investigations, and remediation activities across Development, QA, Infrastructure, and Operations.
• Monitor SLA commitments, identify recurring problems, track corrective and preventive actions, and provide clear status reporting to technical teams and leadership.
• Create runbooks, standard operating procedures, support matrices, metric inventories, escalation procedures, and training materials.
• Lead knowledge-transfer sessions and coordinate formal handover of KPI/OKR collection, dashboards, and recurring operational processes to the Operations team.
• Identify opportunities to improve observability, data quality, process consistency, automation, system reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Track continuous-improvement outcomes through measurable KPIs and OKRs.
• Deliver a governed KPI/OKR inventory with definitions, owners, targets, data sources, and reporting cadence.
• Deliver Splunk and/or Dynatrace dashboards, searches, alerts, and operational reports aligned to service needs.
• Provide log and performance analysis highlighting error patterns, service degradation, capacity concerns, and actionable remediation.
• Document operational health checks, support procedures, escalation paths, and incident/problem follow-up actions.
• Develop automation opportunities and scripts that reduce manual data collection and recurring reporting effort.
• Establish an issue and defect management framework with severity definitions, ownership and escalation paths, SLA tracking, aging reports, root-cause follow-up, and closure criteria.
• Complete an Operations transition package covering dashboards, metric collection, SOPs/runbooks, training, ownership, and handover sign-off.

What you'll bring

• 8+ years of related experience.
• Experience in IT operations, systems or application administration, operational analytics, technical project coordination, or a related enterprise technology role.
• Experience defining, collecting, validating, analyzing, and reporting KPIs, OKRs, SLAs, or SLOs.
• Hands-on experience with log analysis, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise, SPL, dashboards, alerts, log ingestion, field extraction, and data normalization.
• Experience managing DevOps issue and defect lifecycles, including triage, prioritization, backlog and aging management, cross-team escalation, release coordination, and resolution reporting.
• Ability to create clear operational reports, dashboards, scorecards, and leadership updates.
• Strong knowledge of incident tracking, problem management, change coordination, documentation, and operational handover.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, analytical thinking, prioritization, and continuous-improvement skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with performance tool monitoring, distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring, service flow, and anomaly detection.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, Elastic/ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience administering or supporting Linux/Unix and Windows systems, application servers, middleware, and enterprise integrations.
• Knowledge of JBoss, MuleSoft, REST APIs, JSON, SFTP, and Twilio or similar communications/integration services.
• Scripting or automation experience with Shell/Bash, Python, PowerShell, Java, or REST APIs.
• Familiarity with IT service management and workflow tools such as ServiceNow and Jira, and analytics tools such as Power BI and Excel.
• Understanding of networking and application fundamentals, including DNS, TLS/certificates, HTTP/HTTPS, ports, authentication, access control, and service dependencies.
• Experience preparing runbooks, operational readiness checklists, support models, knowledge-transfer materials, and service transition plans.

DataStaff offers W-2 employment opportunities with a competitive benefits package. Many of our positions include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays. Recognizing that many of our assignments are long-term, DataStaff also offers a 401(k) retirement savings plan, with employees becoming eligible after six months of employment.

• Location: Albany, New York
• Remote: Hybrid
• Type: Contract
• Job #12843

DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Data Analytics/Metrics Engineer for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY

Job Description:

The Data Analytics/Metrics Engineer will use data analytics, observability, scripting, automation, and enterprise application administration to improve operational efficiency, application reliability, and data-driven decision-making. You will strengthen monitoring and analytics capabilities across complex, multi-tier application environments, transform operational data into actionable insights, automate repetitive processes, and improve performance. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with hands-on technical expertise, automation capabilities, and the ability to collaborate across application development, infrastructure, integration, and business teams.

What you'll do

• Define and implement a roadmap for expanding operational analytics, intelligent monitoring, and automation across enterprise applications and infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities to replace manual analysis and repetitive operational tasks with reusable scripts, automated workflows, and data-driven processes.
• Establish standards for log analytics, data extraction, error analysis, reporting, and operational dashboards.
• Design, develop, and optimize Splunk searches, dashboards, reports, and alerts to monitor application health, system performance, and operational trends.
• Analyze large volumes of application logs, HTTP status codes, API transactions, and infrastructure events to identify patterns, anomalies, and recurring issues.
• Develop advanced SPL queries to aggregate events, normalize dynamic URL paths, identify high-volume failures, and compare daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly trends.
• Establish operational KPIs and metrics to measure error rates, application reliability, incident trends, and service performance.
• Translate complex log data into clear insights and actionable recommendations for technical teams and management.
• Design and implement automation solutions using Python, Shell/Bash scripting, and Java to streamline data extraction, log processing, system checks, reporting, and operational workflows.
• Develop reusable scripts and utilities to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and accelerate troubleshooting.
• Automate recurring reports, file analysis, exception identification, and operational data processing.
• Integrate automation with existing monitoring, application support, and deployment processes.
• Establish coding, documentation, scheduling, error-handling, and maintenance standards for reliable automation.
• Define meaningful operational metrics and reporting standards to support proactive issue detection and continuous improvement.
• Identify trends in incidents, system errors, integration failures, and file-transfer activity.
• Present analytics findings, risk indicators, and improvement opportunities to technical leadership and business stakeholders.
• Promote knowledge sharing, technical documentation, automation reuse, and continuous improvement across teams.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of automation and analytics initiatives using measurable outcomes such as time saved, reduced manual effort, faster incident investigation, and improved monitoring coverage.
• Promote an automation-first mindset and encourage continuous improvement.
• Establish measurable objectives for analytics quality, monitoring coverage, and operational efficiency.
• Communicate technical risks and analytical findings clearly to management and stakeholders.
• Prioritize initiatives based on business impact, operational risk, and potential efficiency gains.
• Encourage collaboration, technical development, knowledge sharing, and standardized engineering practices.
• Improve operational visibility, use of Splunk analytics, manual-effort reduction through scripting automation, application issue identification, reporting accuracy, and reliability across enterprise application and integration environments.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of progressive experience in IT operations, data analytics, application support, systems administration, software engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise/Dynatrace, SPL, log analysis, dashboards, reporting, and operational monitoring.
• Demonstrated scripting or programming experience using Python, Shell/Bash, Java, or comparable automation technologies.
• Experience troubleshooting enterprise applications, analyzing logs, identifying recurring issues, and performing root cause analysis.
• Familiarity with MuleSoft integrations, REST APIs, JSON payloads, API monitoring, and HTTP status-code analysis.
• Experience with Twilio communication APIs, messaging integrations, notification workflows, or delivery monitoring.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into actionable recommendations.
• Experience developing technical documentation, operational reports, reusable scripts, and repeatable support procedures.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across development, infrastructure, operations, and business teams.

Nice to have

• Experience administering or supporting JBoss / JBoss EAP application environments.
• Advanced Splunk SPL skills, including regular expressions, field extraction, event correlation, statistical aggregation, time-based comparisons, and dashboard development.
• Experience automating operational processes, reporting, file analysis, or system administration tasks using Python and Shell scripting.
• Familiarity with Java-based enterprise applications, Linux/Unix administration, SFTP workflows, and production support.
• Experience with SQL, relational databases, Git, Jira, CI/CD tools, or cloud monitoring platforms.
• Knowledge of incident management, problem management, release coordination, and service reliability practices.
• Experience mentoring technical team members, coordinating cross-functional initiatives, or leading technical improvement projects.
• Familiarity with healthcare, government, or other enterprise environments requiring strong operational controls and documentation.

DataStaff offers W-2 employment opportunities with a competitive benefits package. Many of our positions include medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays. Recognizing that many of our assignments are long-term, DataStaff also offers a 401(k) retirement savings plan, with employees becoming eligible after six months of employment.

• Location: Albany, New York
• Remote: Hybrid
• Type: Contract
• Job #12842

DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Full Stack Java Developer for a long term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY. 

Job Description:

As a Full Stack Java Developer, you will support a healthcare organization’s large-scale health coverage exchange. You will build and maintain scalable Java/J2EE applications while working across the full software development life cycle. This role uses technologies including Core Java/J2EE, Spring Framework, ORM tools, Java build tools, JUnit, web services, relational databases, and SQL.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain highly complex, high-volume, large-scale, scalable, maintainable, and extensible software on a Java/J2EE application stack.
• Work through the full software development life cycle (SDLC), from concept, design, and documentation to testing.
• Ensure compliance with specifications and adherence to coding standards.
• Analyze user and business needs and functionality.
• Plan and assist with the design of software systems that meet user and business needs.
• Write simple and complex SQL queries, preferably using DB2 SQL syntax including PL/SQL.
• Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.
• Gather and analyze information skillfully.
• Develop alternative solutions.
• Apply critical thinking and creative problem solving.
• Communicate effectively in oral and written formats.
• Manage multiple tasks effectively.

What you'll bring

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2–3 years of experience in software development.
• An understanding of Core Java/J2EE, Spring Framework, ORM tools, Java build tools, JUnit testing, web services, relational databases, and SQL.
• One year of large-scale application experience.
• Good analytical and multitasking skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.

Nice to have

• Healthcare, Medicaid, or health exchange experience.
• Experience with Angular.
• Foundational knowledge of prompt engineering principles for working effectively with AI models.
• Knowledge of IDE-based AI coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Amazon Kiro, or Claude Code to accelerate boilerplate generation, debugging, and unit testing.

DataStaff offers W-2 employment opportunities with a competitive benefits package. Many of our positions include access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays. Recognizing that many of our assignments are long-term, DataStaff also offers a 401(k) retirement savings plan, with employees becoming eligible after six months of employment.

• Location: Albany, New York
• Remote: Hybrid
• Type: Contract
• Job #12824

DataStaff Inc. is seeking a Penetration Tester for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY

* This position is primarily remote, with on-site attendance required for the first 3 weeks. After the initial 3-week period, you will be required to be on-site 2 days per month.

Job Description:
A Penetration Tester with a focus on Java application security is sought to identify, exploit, and fix vulnerabilities in Java applications to guard against cyber threats. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct penetration tests and vulnerability assessments for Java applications and infrastructure.
• Identify security flaws in Java code using automated and manual methods.
• Create and use custom exploits to test application security, simulating attacker tactics.
• Collaborate with Development teams to understand application architecture and find security weaknesses early.
• Collaborate with Testing teams to integrate manual and automated testing.
• Provide guidance on secure coding and how to fix vulnerabilities.
• Stay updated on Java security threats and best practices.
• Help improve secure development processes (SDLC).
• Assist in responding to security incidents related to Java vulnerabilities, current published NIST CVE.
• Clearly document and report findings, including technical details, risk assessment, and recommended solutions.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical staff.
• Contribute to security policies for Java development and deployment.
• Manipulate URLs, query parameters, and Application browser data to look for penetration avenues. Validate and assess browser tokens and cache manipulation and Production vs. non-prod architecture.
• Familiar with MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Basic Minimum Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related software field with 6+ years in a DevSec role.
• Core Java coding experience.
• Previous job background as an engineer and Dev Sec position on a large-scale public enterprise scale application.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• Minimum of 6 years of Development/Security experience
• Experience in Penetration Testing/Ethical Hacking with a focus on Java application security.
• Strong knowledge of Java programming and its security practices, as well as scripting experience.
• Proficiency in web application security principles (e.g., OWASP).
• Knowledge of common web vulnerabilities (e.g., SQL injection, XSS) and exploit techniques.
• Experience with penetration testing tools like Burp Suite and Metasploit.
• Familiarity with Fortify on Demand SAST and DAST tools.
• Strong understanding of cryptography and secure communication protocols (e.g., SSL/TLS).
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• High ethical standards and confidentiality.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications such as OSCP, GWAPT, GXPN, GPEN, LPT, CEH, CISSP, or other industry security certifications.
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Experience with secure code review for Java.
• Familiarity with cloud security testing.
• Experience with mobile application penetration testing.
• Knowledge of regulations like HIPAA. 
• Experience with API testing

This opportunity is available as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months of employment.