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Design, automate, secure, and operate Kubernetes platforms for a DoD environment. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, GitOps and CI/CD, Kubernetes networking and RBAC, service mesh, cloud integrations, platform troubleshooting, and reliability improvements. Senior engineers also guide technical decisions and mentor others while remaining hands-on.

Own and evolve a secure, cloud-native internal developer platform for a federal health mission. Responsibilities include Terraform and GitOps foundations, multi-tenant Kubernetes on AWS GovCloud, self-service onboarding, MLOps/AIOps, data lakehouse enablement, observability, security automation, compliance artifacts, documentation, and stakeholder partnership. The role requires senior ownership of production platforms and offers opportunities for technical leadership.

Build and deploy AI applications, agents, intelligent workflows, document-processing solutions, predictive analytics, and automation. The role spans AI use-case assessment, solution design, prototyping, evaluation, testing, production deployment, monitoring, governance, and responsible-AI controls. The engineer will integrate AI with enterprise systems, APIs, workflows, and data platforms while partnering with engineering, cybersecurity, governance, and mission teams in a federal environment.

Leads enterprise business intelligence and analytics solutions using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Designs semantic models, certified datasets, dashboards, DAX calculations, data transformations, security controls, and governed self-service analytics. Assesses and modernizes reporting portfolios, develops predictive and forecasting capabilities, gathers requirements, validates data quality, supports documentation and adoption, and mentors analysts. Collaborates with business, engineering, governance, and security stakeholders to establish scalable enterprise analytics standards.

Leads enterprise data governance for federal and DoD environments, developing standards, classification and access policies, quality thresholds, retention frameworks, metadata practices, steward networks, and governance workflows. Configures Microsoft Purview controls, validates RBAC through Microsoft Entra ID, supports Master Data Management, facilitates governance boards, and reports on governance maturity.

Lead the design and development of mission-relevant software, build backend services and APIs, mentor engineers, and support technical demos.

Design, build, test, and deploy secure mission-planning software. Maintain secure CI/CD, containerized deployments, automated testing, and security-scanning workflows. Integrate AI capabilities, investigate vulnerabilities, support remediation, produce technical design documentation, and collaborate with stakeholders and customer leads.

Develop secure, data-rich frontend features using React and TypeScript for a DoD mission-planning platform. Integrate UIs with backend APIs, support map-based and AI-enabled decision-support workflows, write unit/integration tests, participate in code reviews and security remediation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams with periodic onsite sprint planning in Laurel, MD.

Integrate LLMs, RAG, and agentic-AI into secure decision-support software. Design prompts and inference workflows, connect AI to backend services, evaluate outputs, build tests, document designs, and collaborate with engineering, security, and DevSecOps teams to deliver reliable mission-capable AI features.

Build, test, and integrate secure backend services and APIs for DoD mission-planning. Work on REST and gRPC services, asynchronous workflows, geospatial databases, containerized deployments, CI/CD, automated tests, and vulnerability remediation while collaborating with AI/ML, frontend, and cybersecurity teams.