Senior Architect​/DevOps Engineer- Remote; DC, MD, VA- Locals

About Swingtech

Swingtech delivers innovative Information Technology and Professional Support services to a diverse range of clients across the federal and intelligence communities. With over 15 years of trusted experience as a systems integrator, we apply agile methodologies and deep industry insight to help our customers achieve greater efficiency, compliance, and cost savings. At Swingtech, we're committed to excellence and long-term success for our clients and our team.

Location: Remote (with occasional travel to Baltimore, MD and Greenbelt, MD)

Swingtech Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect / Dev Ops Engineer to support the architecture, operation, modernization, and secure delivery of web-based training and learning management platforms supporting federal programs.

This role blends solution architecture, Dev Ops engineering, cloud operations, system reliability, release support, and technical leadership
. The ideal candidate should be able to guide technical direction while also supporting hands-on operational activities, environment management, troubleshooting, deployments, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership for the architecture, operation, maintenance, and enhancement of web-based applications and learning management platforms
• Support architecture planning, technical design, modernization activities, and platform improvement initiatives
• Support reliable operation of development, test/staging, and production environments
• Lead or support deployment planning, release coordination, environment configuration, and production validation activities
• Collaborate with development, cybersecurity, QA, help desk, data, and program teams to support stable and secure system performance
• Support and optimize cloud-hosted or hybrid-cloud environments, including migration planning, environment readiness, monitoring, and performance considerations
• Lead efforts to enhance scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, automation, and operational efficiency
• Drive Dev Ops practices, including build and release coordination, configuration management, automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and documentation
• Drive vulnerability remediation, coordinate patching activities, enforce security configurations, and mitigate technical risks
• Support system performance analysis, incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture notes, deployment guidance, configuration records, and operational procedures
• Provide technical recommendations to program leadership and customer stakeholders in clear, practical terms
• Support alignment of technical solutions with federal security, accessibility, privacy, and operational requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered
• At least 8 years of experience supporting enterprise applications, web-based platforms, cloud operations, Dev Ops, systems engineering, or technical architecture
• Experience providing technical leadership for application operations, platform enhancements, environment management, or modernization efforts
• Strong understanding of web application architecture, deployment processes, release management, monitoring, and system reliability practices
• Experience supporting development, staging, and production environments in enterprise or regulated environments
• Experienced with cloud-hosted or hybrid-cloud application environments
• Experienced in troubleshooting complex application, infrastructure, performance, configuration, or deployment issues
• Understanding of secure system operations, vulnerability remediation, patching, access control, and configuration management
• Ability to coordinate across development, security, infrastructure, QA, help desk, and program teams
• Strong documentation, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and support multiple technical priorities in a remote environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting federal, healthcare, or regulated IT environments
• Experience supporting learning management systems, training portals, or web-based education platforms
• Experience with AWS, cloud migration activities, or CMS/hybrid-cloud environments
• Experience with CI/CD concepts, automation, scripting,…