Principal Software Engineer

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’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 Principal Software Engineer to support our work. Please note the role is contingent upon award. 

Assignment of Work and Travel:

This is a remote access assignment. The Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access IGS systems and therein use approved IGS provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested. 

The Principal Software Engineer will provide senior-level technical leadership in the design, development, modernization, deployment, and operation of secure, scalable software solutions supporting our customer. This role will serve as a technical leader for application development and cloud engineering activities, with responsibility for designing production solutions and implementing modern software development, DevOps, and CI/CD practices within the customer’s environments.

Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):

• Provide technical leadership and engineering direction for the design, development, modernization, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise software solutions. 
• Serve as a Principal/Senior Engineer or technical architect for production systems operating within VAEC-supported cloud environments. 
• Design, develop, and support applications and services deployed within AWS/AWS GovCloud and/or Microsoft Azure/Azure Government environments. 
• Architect secure, scalable, resilient, highly available, and maintainable cloud-based application solutions. 
• Design, implement, and maintain DevOps and CI/CD pipelines supporting automated application build, testing, security scanning, deployment, and release processes. 
• Utilize GitHub for source-code management, collaboration, version control, and integration with automated development and deployment workflows. 
• Establish and promote software engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and configuration-management best practices. 
• Lead application modernization initiatives, including migration of legacy applications and workloads into cloud-native or cloud-optimized architectures. 
• Provide technical guidance for cloud infrastructure, APIs, microservices, containerized applications, serverless architectures, and other modern application-design patterns as appropriate. 
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following fields: Business Administration, Business Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Resource Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research or related fields.
• Substitutions: Certifications in relevant technology plus a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience or a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience may be substituted for education.
• Demonstrated knowledge and use of modern software development and Dev/Ops tools including GitHub and implementation of a Dev/Ops pipeline in a cloud environment. 
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, implementing, and supporting enterprise software solutions. 
• Demonstrated knowledge and hands-on use of modern software development and DevOps tools, including GitHub. 
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing a DevOps/CI/CD pipeline within a cloud environment. 
• Strong experience with AWS/AWS GovCloud and/or Microsoft Azure/Azure Government. 
• Experience with source control, automated builds, automated testing, application deployment, configuration management, and release automation. 
• Working knowledge of cloud security, identity and access management, networking, monitoring, logging, availability, and resiliency principles. 
• Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust 

Preferred Qualifications and Core Competencies:

• Extensive experience with AWS GovCloud and VA Enterprise Cloud. 
• Experience with Microsoft Azure Government. 
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, Azure DevOps, or similar CI/CD platforms. 
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or ARM/Bicep templates. 
•  Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including Amazon EKS or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). 

Successful IGS employees embody the following Core Values:

• 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.
• Empathy, Emotional Intelligence: How we interact with others including peers, colleagues, stakeholders, and customers’ 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’ and end-users’ business drivers and challenges to ensure solutions meet not only technical needs but also support their mission.
• 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. 
• 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.  

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.