Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain secure, cloud-based applications that prioritize performance, reliability, and compliance with industry security standards.
- Implement and manage user authentication, authorization, and access controls to support secure operations.
- Build and maintain APIs, services, and backend integrations that ensure interoperability across systems.
- Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities, ensuring adherence to established security frameworks and organizational policies.
- Create automation scripts and CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, delivery, and environment configuration.
- Monitor application and infrastructure performance, proactively addressing issues to minimize downtime and optimize response times.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including systems, security, and database professionals—to align solutions with organizational requirements.
- Prepare and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, version control practices, and recovery procedures.
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., serverless, containerization, AI/ML) to recommend improvements that enhance system agility and sustainability.
- Contribute to Agile team processes, managing tasks, addressing technical debt, and ensuring smooth delivery cycles.
- Mentor junior team members and provide subject matter expertise to guide long-term modernization and digital transformation efforts.
- Perform additional duties as assigned
Skills/Qualifications:
- Expert-level proficiency in modern cloud platforms and services, including application hosting, serverless functions, storage, secrets management, networking, and workflow automation.
- Advanced experience with identity and access management (IAM), including single sign-on (SSO), authentication/authorization, and secure federation across enterprise environments.
- Strong programming skills in object-oriented and scripting languages (such as C#, .NET, PowerShell, and JavaScript/TypeScript), with a solid foundation in backend architectures and middleware integrations.
- Deep knowledge of DevSecOps practices, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), version control, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and optimize cloud infrastructure performance, spanning compute, data, and networking layers.
- Demonstrated experience applying secure coding standards, addressing vulnerability findings, and operating within compliance-driven environments.
- Familiarity with enterprise data platforms and analytics tools, including relational databases and BI/reporting frameworks.
- US Citizenship required due to clearance requirements
Education/Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Associate's degree in Computer Science, Math, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field. Six (6) years of directly relevant experience may substitute for three (3) years of formal education.
- Minimum of six (6) years of experience in one or more of the current RHEL, Windows, VMWare, and SAS.
- Minimum of six (6) years of performing security remediation to systems with vulnerabilities based on security scans.
- Minimum of six (6) years of experience in an Agile DevSecOps software development environment and Methodologies.
- Minimum of six (6) years of experience with Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
- Minimum of 6 years of mitigating Azure hardware/software issues, performance bottlenecks and overall system health concerns.
- Demonstrated experience working in support of federal government enterprise applications preferred.
$45 - $49 an hour