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.

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, Dev Ops, and CI/CD practices within the customer’s environments.

• 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 Gov Cloud and/or Microsoft Azure/Azure Government environments.
• Architect secure, scalable, resilient, highly available, and maintainable cloud-based application solutions.
• Design, implement, and maintain Dev Ops and CI/CD pipelines supporting automated application build, testing, security scanning, deployment, and release processes.
• Utilize Git Hub for source-code management, collaboration, version control, and integration with automated development and deployment workflows.
• Establish and promote software engineering, Dev Ops, Dev Sec Ops , 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 Git Hub and implementation of a Dev/Ops pipeline in a cloud environment.
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, implementing,…