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MKS2 Technologies

<div><div>MKS2 Technologies, LLC, an award-winning high growth small business, creates innovative and customer-centric technology solutions in the areas of Cyber Security, Instructional Design and Training, Software Engineering and IT Support Services to improve the security and well-being of our clients. Our commitment to excellence and our &quot;Mission First&quot; orientation has resulted in steady growth and an expanding client base across government agencies. We have employees nationwide and for the past three consecutive years were named one of the fastest growing Veteran-owned companies in the nation. Please take a moment to browse through our website and learn more about what it means to serve with MKS2.</div> 


DevOps Engineer &ndash; Fully Remote (Temp‑to‑Hire) 
Salary: $125,000&ndash;$150,000

The VA Lighthouse Program is a major U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs initiative focused on modernizing access to VA data through secure, scalable APIs. Our program AI &amp; Engineering team supports this mission by accelerating digital delivery, strengthening platform operations, and enabling modern engineering practices across the enterprise. This fully remote DevOps Engineer role is temp‑to‑hire, with conversion eligibility based on client requirements. 


Role Overview

You will serve as a key engineer shaping the Lighthouse platform's cloud‑native architecture, DevSecOps practices, and self‑service capabilities. This role blends hands‑on engineering with platform strategy, automation, and cross‑team collaboration. 


Core Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>Create automated, self‑service capabilities for deploying containerized applications and exposing API endpoints.</li>
<li>Define and communicate the architectural vision for a scalable, secure, cloud‑native platform.</li>
<li>Collaborate with product owners, security teams, and stakeholders to prioritize features and maintain technical roadmaps.</li>
<li>Establish engineering standards and best practices across the Lighthouse program.</li>
<li>Deliver Platform‑as‑a‑Service solutions, including low‑code/no‑code capabilities and enterprise API engineering.</li>
<li>Execute full lifecycle software development with a focus on automation, reliability, and operational efficiency.</li>
<li>Own DevSecOps pipelines, including secure CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure automation, and monitoring.</li>
<li>Continuously improve platform performance, developer experience, and operational resilience.</li>
<li>Ensure compliance with VA, federal, and industry requirements, including audit readiness and documentation.</li></ul> 


Required Qualifications
<ul>
<li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.</li>
<li>5+ years of experience with AWS Cloud and/or DevOps at scale.</li>
<li>Deep hands‑on experience with Kubernetes in production (design, implementation, scaling, troubleshooting).</li>
<li>Strong understanding of L4&ndash;L7 networking using AWS resources and tools like Cilium or Istio.</li>
<li>Experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code and scripting languages.</li>
<li>Experience leading engineering teams and defining program‑level standards.</li>
<li>Experience building and maintaining monitoring solutions for platform health and insights.</li>
<li>Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.</li>
<li>Must be able to obtain and maintain a VA Public Trust clearance.</li></ul> 


Preferred Qualifications
<ul>
<li>8+ years in software or platform engineering, including technical leadership roles.</li>
<li>Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu for IaC.</li>
<li>Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).</li>
<li>Proven success implementing secure, automated DevSecOps pipelines and containerization tools.</li>
<li>Experience with Blue‑Green deployments using ArgoCD.</li>
<li>Experience with end‑to‑end encryption and managed mTLS.</li>
<li>Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, and other compliance frameworks.</li>
<li>Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and mentoring skills.</li>
<li>Experience in government or public sector environments.</li>
<li>Ability to stay current with emerging cloud and platform technologies.</li></ul><div> 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: MKS2 Technologies is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.</div></div>

DevOps Engineer

Initiate Government Solutions

<div>Description:

Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is a Woman-Owned Small Business and a fully remote IT services provider supporting federal partners nationwide. We deliver innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions with a strong focus on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, AI, and the modernization of federal information systems.
Our vision is to be a health IT trendsetter, continuing to solve the nation&rsquo;s most challenging healthcare IT issues by conceiving, designing, and building solid, creative, and innovative open-source solutions.
Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver tailored solutions that balance technical advancement with cost-awareness while providing exceptional service.
IGS is currently recruiting a remote DevOps Engineer to support our work with our customer.
Assignment of Work and Travel:
This is a remote access assignment. The Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access customer systems and therein use approved customer provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested.
This role leads the design and delivery of a secure, scalable, cloud-native self-service platform that enables automated deployment of containerized applications and enterprise APIs for federal data consumers. It partners closely with stakeholders to define architectural vision, Kubernetes standards, and deliver PaaS and end-to-end software solutions that accelerate development while ensuring compliance and reliability.
Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):<ul><li>
Create and foster Self-Service Principles - create automated process for creating on-demand platform for deploying containerized applications and exposing API endpoints to federal data consumers.</li><li>
Architectural Vision &amp; Strategy: Shape and communicate the architectural blueprint for Lighthouse with a focus on scalability, security, automation, and developer experience in a cloud-native environment.</li><li>
Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with product owners, security teams, and stakeholders to facilitate and prioritize features that Program Manager(s) can use to meet business needs and create technical roadmaps, ensuring compliance with customer, federal, and industry requirements.</li><li>
Establish and Enforce Standards: Define, document, and advocate for engineering best practices across the program, leveraging expertise in DevSecOps and Kubernetes.</li><li>
Platform as a Service (PaaS): Provide clients with PaaS solutions&mdash;delivering low-code/no-code development platforms and enterprise-grade API engineering to accelerate application delivery, streamline integration, and enable scalable digital solutions.</li><li>
End-to-End Software Development: Execute efforts across the full software development lifecycle, automating processes, boosting operational efficiency, and strengthening system reliability.</li><li>
DevSecOps Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain secure, automated CI/CD pipelines and increased monitoring and platform related business intelligence. Automate build, test, deployment, and infrastructure processes; champion shift-left security practices.</li><li>
Continuous Innovation: Continuously refine the platform and deliver innovative, reliable solutions to meet the mission.</li><li>
Governance &amp; Compliance: Ensure solutions meet all compliance requirements, including audit readiness and documentation.</li></ul>
Requirements:
<ul><li>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field</li><li>
5+ years of experience with AWS Cloud and/or DevOps at scale</li><li>
Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes (design, implementation, troubleshooting, scaling) in production environments</li><li>
Understanding of L4, L5, and L7 networking with AWS Resources and Cilium, Istio, or equivalent operators</li><li>
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and scripting languages</li><li>
Experience leading engineering teams and setting program-level standards</li><li>
Experience defining and maintaining a monitoring solution for providing insight to platform issues</li><li>
US Citizenship required due to clearance requirement</li></ul>
 Preferred Qualifications and Core Competencies:<ul><li>
8+ years in software or platform engineering, including technical leadership or architect role</li><li>
Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu for IaC</li><li>
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef</li><li>
Proven success implementing secure, automated DevSecOps pipelines and containerization tools like Kubernetes or Docker</li><li>
Experience with Blue Green Deployment techniques with ArgoCD</li><li>
Experience with end-to-end encryption techniques using managed mTLS</li><li>
Familiarity with monitoring, security best practices, and regulatory compliance (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA)</li><li>
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills</li><li>
Experience working with or within government or public sector environments</li><li>
Demonstrated ability to stay current with cloud and emerging technology trends</li><li>
Active VA Public Trust</li><li>
Prior experience supporting federal agencies</li><li>
Certifications in AWS, Kubernetes, or DevOps-related disciplines.</li><li>
Prior, successful experience working in a remote environment</li></ul>
Successful IGS employees embody the following Core Values:<ul><li>
Integrity, Honesty, and Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest level of ethics. Doing things like being accountable for mistakes, accepting helpful criticism, and following through on commitments to ourselves, each other, and our customers.</li><li>
Empathy, Emotional Intelligence: How we interact with others including peers, colleagues, stakeholders, and customers&rsquo; matters. We take collective responsibility to create an environment where colleagues and customers feel valued, included, and respected. We work within a diverse, integrated, and collaborative team to drive towards accomplishing the larger mission. We conscientiously and meticulously learn about our customers&rsquo; and end-users&rsquo; business drivers and challenges to ensure solutions meet not only technical needs but also support their mission.</li><li>
Strong Work Ethic (Reliability, Dedication, Productivity): We are driven by a strong, self-motivated, and results-driven work ethic. We are reliable, accountable, proactive, and tenacious and will do what it takes to get the job done.</li><li>
Life-Long Learner (Curious, Perspective, Goal Oriented): We challenge ourselves to continually learn and improve ourselves. We strive to be an expert in our field, continuously honing our craft, and finding solutions where others see problems.</li></ul>
Compensation: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary, including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.
Benefits: Initiate Government Solutions offers competitive compensation and a robust benefits package, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care, matching 401K and profit sharing, paid time off, training time for personal development, flexible spending accounts, employer-paid life insurance, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage, an education assistance program with potential merit increases for obtaining a work-related certification, employee recognition, and referral programs, spot bonuses, and other benefits that help provide financial protection for the employee and their family.
Initiate Government Solutions participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program. 
Initiate Government Solutions participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program.</div>

Interaslabs

&lt;Overview&gt; Ignite your career as a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer, where you will lead the design, implementation, and management of cloud infrastructure solutions that power innovative enterprise applications. This role offers an exciting opportunity to leverage cutting-edge technologies to optimize system performance, enhance security, and streamline deployment processes across complex distributed systems. Join a dynamic team committed to continuous improvement and technological excellence, driving impactful results in a fast-paced environment.&lt;Responsibilities&gt;<ul><li>Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure solutions utilizing AWS services such as S3, DynamoDB, EC2, and VPCs, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery readiness.</li><li>Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible to automate provisioning and configuration management across diverse environments.</li><li>Manage containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes, orchestrating microservices architectures for seamless deployment and scaling.</li><li>Integrate CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or TFS to automate software build, testing, and deployment processes aligned with SDLC best practices.</li><li>Monitor system health and application performance through tools like New Relic, Splunk, and Elasticsearch; perform log analysis to troubleshoot issues proactively.</li><li>Ensure cloud security through proper identity &amp; access management (IAM), firewall configurations, encryption protocols, and compliance standards.</li><li>Collaborate with development teams on requirements gathering for enterprise software projects; support software troubleshooting and incident recovery efforts.</li></ul>&lt;Experience&gt;<ul><li>Extensive hands-on experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure in enterprise environments.</li><li>Proven expertise in DevOps practices including continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, release management, and system testing.</li><li>Strong background in scripting languages like Python, Bash (Unix shell), PowerShell, Groovy, Perl, Ruby, and Go for automation tasks.</li><li>Deep understanding of IT infrastructure components including virtualization (VMware), containerization (Docker), open-source orchestration tools (Kubernetes), and virtualization platforms like OpenStack.</li><li>Familiarity with enterprise middleware such as WebSphere, Weblogic, JBoss; experience with application servers is highly desirable.</li><li>Knowledge of database systems including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle; proficiency in SQL/PLSQL/T-SQL for data management.</li><li>Experience managing distributed systems over WAN/LAN networks; expertise in network administration including DNS, TCP/IP protocols and cloud security best practices.</li><li>Ability to troubleshoot complex issues involving software deployment failures or system outages; adept at incident management using tools like Jira or TFS. Join us if you&rsquo;re passionate about leveraging the latest cloud technologies to drive innovation! We&rsquo;re looking for a proactive problem solver who thrives in collaborative environments and is eager to lead transformative projects that shape the future of enterprise IT infrastructure.</li></ul>Pay: $55.00 - $60.00 per hourExpected hours: 40 per weekExperience:<ul><li>AWS CodeBuild: 10 years (Preferred)</li><li>AWS Codedeploy: 10 years (Preferred)</li><li>Amazon ECS: 10 years (Preferred)</li><li>AWS CloudFormation: 10 years (Preferred)</li><li>AWS ​C​DK: 10 years (Preferred)</li><li>AWS Networking tools: 10 years (Preferred)</li></ul>License/Certification:<ul><li>AWS Certified Solutions Architect &ndash; Professional (Preferred)</li><li>AWS Certified DevOps Engineer &ndash; Professional (Preferred)</li><li>AWS Certified Developer &ndash; Associate (Preferred)</li></ul>Work Location: In person

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Leidos

<div>Description
The U.S. Navy&rsquo;s Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program has an opening for a Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer on a high-visibility DoD program that provides engineering support to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), the largest information technology (IT) network in the world. This position will provide many opportunities to challenge and grow your skills.
This person should be a seasoned, self-motivated, professional with hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-prem environments. A skilled technician knowledgeable and experienced in infrastructure as code environments, automating patches and system configurations, orchestrating network operations and DevOps pipelines, automating and orchestrating operations, scaling releases, and day-to-day system operations in commercial cloud and on-prem environments.
Primary Responsibilities:
Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include site reliability engineering and integration, release management, implementation &amp; migration, and training &amp; knowledge transfer
SRE Engineering and Integration:<ul><li>
Automate routine tasks and software updates, document, and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedure</li><li>
Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing, integration/regression testing, all new applications, and all new capabilities</li><li>
Develop Ansible playbook design, role development, and testing, in non-production environments, as well as migration to production networks</li></ul>
Release Management:<ul><li>
Participate in the development of the release management process, procedures, and policies</li><li>
Establish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule</li><li>
Conduct site surveys, as necessary, to assess existing equipment and software being used to validate release package requirements and dependencies</li></ul>
Training &amp; Knowledge Transfer<ul><li>
Develop, document, and maintain work instruction materials for related Automation and Orchestration processes</li><li>
Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced</li></ul>
Required Qualifications<ul><li>
BS and 4 to 8 years of hands-on site reliability engineering automation, ideally with federal government; add'l experience may be considered in lieu of degree</li><li>
IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)</li><li>
Experience working in a DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CICD), and Agile environments using code delivery mechanisms, continuous build systems, code repositories, and continuous delivery solutions</li><li>
Secret Clearance</li><li>
Must be a US Citizen</li><li>
Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel).</li><li>
Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.) preferred</li><li>
Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)</li><li>
Experience with Containerization (Docker) and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)</li><li>
Experience with chaos engineering practices and tools such as Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, or similar frameworks.</li><li>
Good command of Linux/Unix and command line knowledge</li><li>
Experience in application administration, configuration, and integration</li><li>
Familiarity with agile development methodologies</li><li>
Skilled and disciplined to work with a distributed team</li><li>
Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment</li><li>
Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices, with a desire to grow that knowledge</li><li>
Hand-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.).</li><li>
Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations</li><li>
Experience administrating/maintaining SRE platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jenkins)</li><li>
Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell, or Python</li><li>
Integrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Gitlab.</li><li>
Experience with PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers</li><li>
Experience with commercial cloud infrastructure deployment environments such as AWS and Azure.</li><li>
Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or similar technologies.</li><li>
Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF), DISA STIGs</li></ul>
Preferred Qualifications
A highly qualified candidate will also have:<ul><li>
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automating test environments.</li><li>
ITILv4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s) or applicable experience</li></ul>
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo &mdash; because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 &mdash; and moving faster than anyone else dares.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Original Posting:</h2>
February 13, 2026 
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
Pay Range:</h2>
Pay Range $73,450.00 - $132,775.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
Pay and Benefits
Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.
Securing Your Data
Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos&rsquo; name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system &ndash; never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.
If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
#Remote</div>

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Automation and Orchestration Engineer

<div>Description:

Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is a Woman-Owned Small Business and a fully remote IT services provider supporting federal partners nationwide. We deliver innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions with a strong focus on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, AI, and the modernization of federal information systems.
Our vision is to be a health IT trendsetter, continuing to solve the nation&rsquo;s most challenging healthcare IT issues by conceiving, designing, and building solid, creative, and innovative open-source solutions.
Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver tailored solutions that balance technical advancement with cost-awareness while providing exceptional service.
IGS is currently recruiting for a remote Microservices Engineer to support our work with our federal customer.
Assignment of Work and Travel:
This is a remote access assignment. The Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access customer systems and therein use approved customer provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested.
This program is a transformative initiative by the customer aimed at modernizing and streamlining access to data and services through secure, reliable, and scalable APIs. As a member of the team, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and supporting API solutions that empower veterans, partners, and internal stakeholders to access critical information and services efficiently.
This role provides technical leadership across Microservices and agile teams, guiding architecture, code quality, reliability, and scalability within a cloud-native microservices environment. It advises executives on strategic technology decisions while overseeing critical deployments, operational readiness, on-call support, and risk-sensitive activities such as secret key rotations and system health monitoring.
Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):<ul><li>
Oversee technical direction of 32 microservices across 6 agile teams</li><li>
Participate in architecture and code reviews of Springboot and Ruby microservices as well as AWS Elastic Kubernetes YAML configurations</li><li>
Advise on improvements to health and DORA monitors and metrics</li><li>
Identify and recommend solutions to address scalability, reliability, and availability</li><li>
Advise executives on strategic technology decisions related to microservices and team capacity</li><li>
Oversee major deployments and high-risk secret key rotations</li><li>
Oversee on-call operations</li></ul>
Requirements:
<ul><li>15+ years of software engineering experience with a preference for Java, Spring Boot, and Ruby expertise</li><li>
Experience with DevOps including CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and version control systems</li><li>
Experience operating in a 24/7 environment 99.999 SLA environment</li><li>
Experience with public-facing APIs</li><li>
Experience with complex backend data integrations</li><li>
Experience with monitoring tools such as Data Dog, Kibana</li><li>
Strong executive communication skills</li><li>
API Programming: Mastery</li><li>
DevOps Engineering: Advanced</li><li>
DevOps-AWS: Advanced</li><li>
GitHub: Advanced</li><li>
Java Spring Framework: Mastery</li><li>
US Citizenship required due to clearance requirement</li><li>
Strong organizational skills</li></ul>
Preferred Qualifications and Core Competencies:<ul><li>
Docker: Intermediate</li><li>
Kubernetes: Intermediate</li><li>
Octopus Deploy: Intermediate</li><li>
Active VA Public Trust</li><li>
Prior experience supporting federal agencies</li><li>
Certifications in cloud technologies, API development, or secure software engineering</li><li>
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.</li><li>
Prior, successful experience working in a remote environment</li></ul>
Successful IGS employees embody the following Core Values:<ul><li>
Integrity, Honesty, and Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest level of ethics. Doing things like being accountable for mistakes, accepting helpful criticism, and following through on commitments to ourselves, each other, and our customers.</li><li>
Empathy, Emotional Intelligence: How we interact with others including peers, colleagues, stakeholders, and customers&rsquo; matters. We take collective responsibility to create an environment where colleagues and customers feel valued, included, and respected. We work within a diverse, integrated, and collaborative team to drive towards accomplishing the larger mission. We conscientiously and meticulously learn about our customers&rsquo; and end-users&rsquo; business drivers and challenges to ensure solutions meet not only technical needs but also support their mission.</li><li>
Strong Work Ethic (Reliability, Dedication, Productivity): We are driven by a strong, self-motivated, and results-driven work ethic. We are reliable, accountable, proactive, and tenacious and will do what it takes to get the job done.</li><li>
Life-Long Learner (Curious, Perspective, Goal Oriented): We challenge ourselves to continually learn and improve ourselves. We strive to be an expert in our field, continuously honing our craft, and finding solutions where others see problems.</li></ul>
Compensation: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary, including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.
Benefits: Initiate Government Solutions offers competitive compensation and a robust benefits package, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care, matching 401K and profit sharing, paid time off, training time for personal development, flexible spending accounts, employer-paid life insurance, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage, an education assistance program with potential merit increases for obtaining a work-related certification, employee recognition, and referral programs, spot bonuses, and other benefits that help provide financial protection for the employee and their family.
Initiate Government Solutions participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program.</div>

Microservices Engineer

<div>Description:

Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is a Woman-Owned Small Business and a fully remote IT services provider supporting federal partners nationwide. We deliver innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions with a strong focus on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, AI, and the modernization of federal information systems.
Our vision is to be a health IT trendsetter, continuing to solve the nation&rsquo;s most challenging healthcare IT issues by conceiving, designing, and building solid, creative, and innovative open-source solutions.
Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver tailored solutions that balance technical advancement with cost-awareness while providing exceptional service.
IGS is currently recruiting for a remote API Developer Lead to support our work with our federal customer.
Assignment of Work and Travel:
This is a remote access assignment. The Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access customer systems and therein use approved customer provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested.
This program is a transformative initiative by the customer, aimed at modernizing and streamlining access to data and services through secure, reliable, and scalable APIs. As a member of the team, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and supporting API solutions that empower veterans, partners, and internal stakeholders to access critical information and services efficiently.
This role will be over multiple teams executing Kong administration and API Management. You will need to work with team leaders on the following topics:
Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):<ul><li>
Provide Kong platform engineering expertise.</li><li>
Administer Kong (routes, services, consumers, upstreams, certificates, rate limiting, logging).</li><li>
Design, implement, and maintain Kong plugins (custom or extended), including policy enforcement and transformations.</li><li>
Operate Kong in Kubernetes (Helm/operator patterns as applicable), upgrades, config promotion across environments.</li><li>
Provide API design &amp; contract management expertise.</li><li>
Define API standards and review APIs for consistency, usability, and backward compatibility.</li><li>
Author and maintain OpenAPI Specification (OAS) contracts; implement versioning and deprecation practices.</li><li>
Enable hosting and lifecycle workflows for OpenAPI docs/specs (publishing, validation, governance checks).</li><li>
Provide Security &amp; authentication expertise.</li><li>
Implement/maintain authN/authZ patterns: JSON Web Tokens (JWT) issuance/validation/claims mapping, token modification, key rotation.</li><li>
Integrate with directory/identity services (e.g., Active Directory (AD) / LDAP-style patterns) and common gateway security controls.</li><li>
Provide Cloud + DevOps / platform expertise</li><li>
Experience Building Kubernetes resources (Deployments, Services, Ingress/Gateway API objects as relevant, ConfigMaps/Secrets, NetworkPolicies).</li><li>
Provision and manage Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources needed for the platform (networking, compute, load balancing, DNS, certificates, secrets).</li><li>
Implement DevOps processes: CI/CD, GitOps patterns, automated testing/validation of configs/specs, environment promotion, rollback.</li><li>
Experience with Observability, metering, and reporting</li><li>
Implement API metering/usage analytics, dashboards, and operational reporting (SLIs/SLOs, error rates, latency, top consumers/routes).</li><li>
Instrument logs/metrics/traces; build actionable dashboards and extract periodic reports for stakeholders.</li><li>
Systems administration (practical ops)</li><li>
Troubleshoot Linux/container runtime issues; manage certs, TLS, networking, DNS, and performance tuning.</li><li>
Participate in on-call/escalations as needed; produce runbooks and operational documentation.</li></ul>
Requirements:
<ul><li>Hands-on experience with Kong Gateway (open-source) administration in real environments (not just POC).</li><li>
 Experience building/extending Kong plugins and/or deep Kong policy configuration patterns.</li><li>
API gateway concerns (auth, routing, rate limiting, basic transforms, logging).</li><li>
 Strong API design background + strong working knowledge of OpenAPI (OAS).</li><li>
API governance: linting/validation pipelines for OpenAPI, contract testing, semantic versioning strategies.</li><li>
Kubernetes experience (deploying, operating, troubleshooting).</li><li>
DevOps delivery practices (gitOps, CI/CD, config promotion, automation).</li><li>
Auth experience: JWT validation/claims, key management/rotation; familiarity integrating with enterprise identity (e.g., AD-style ecosystems).</li><li>
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance</li><li>
US Citizenship required due to clearance requirement.</li></ul>
Preferred Qualifications and Core Competencies:<ul><li>
Working experience in AWS for platform workloads.</li><li>
Kong at scale (multi-team, multi-tenant patterns), performance tuning, and upgrade/migration experience.</li><li>
Experience with GitOps (e.g., Argo CD/Flux concepts)</li><li>
Experience with service mesh / gateway ecosystem concepts (Envoy, NGINX, Istio)</li><li>
Observability stack: Datadog/Splunk (or similar - Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry)</li><li>
Security practices: TLS, mTLS concepts, secrets management, OWASP API security considerations, audit logging.</li><li>
Experience mentoring teams and setting platform standards (enablement mindset).</li><li>
Active VA Public Trust</li><li>
Prior experience supporting federal agencies</li><li>
Certifications in cloud technologies, API development, or secure software engineering.</li><li>
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.</li><li>
Prior, successful experience working in a remote environment</li></ul>
Successful IGS employees embody the following Core Values:<ul><li>
Integrity, Honesty, and Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest level of ethics. Doing things like being accountable for mistakes, accepting helpful criticism, and following through on commitments to ourselves, each other, and our customers.</li><li>
empathy, Emotional Intelligence: How we interact with others including peers, colleagues, stakeholders, and customers&rsquo; matters. We take collective responsibility to create an environment where colleagues and customers feel valued, included, and respected. We work within a diverse, integrated, and collaborative team to drive towards accomplishing the larger mission. We conscientiously and meticulously learn about our customers&rsquo; and end-users&rsquo; business drivers and challenges to ensure solutions meet not only technical needs but also support their mission.</li><li>
Strong Work Ethic (Reliability, Dedication, Productivity): We are driven by a strong, self-motivated, and results-driven work ethic. We are reliable, accountable, proactive, and tenacious and will do what it takes to get the job done.</li><li>
Life-Long Learner (Curious, Perspective, Goal Oriented): We challenge ourselves to continually learn and improve ourselves. We strive to be an expert in our field, continuously honing our craft, and finding solutions where others see problems.</li></ul>
Compensation: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary, including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.
Benefits: Initiate Government Solutions offers competitive compensation and a robust benefits package, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care, matching 401K and profit sharing, paid time off, training time for personal development, flexible spending accounts, employer-paid life insurance, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage, an education assistance program with potential merit increases for obtaining a work-related certification, employee recognition, and referral programs, spot bonuses, and other benefits that help provide financial protection for the employee and their family.
Initiate Government Solutions participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program.</div>

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