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Designs, develops, and maintains REST APIs, middleware, authentication workflows, and enterprise system integrations in a secure federal and DoD-aligned environment. Responsibilities include data transformation, API lifecycle management, troubleshooting, secure coding, schema modeling, automated testing, documentation, and collaboration with architects and cybersecurity teams. The role requires an active Top Secret clearance, six or more years of relevant experience, a bachelor’s degree, and CompTIA Security+ certification.

Administer AWS GovCloud IL5 environments through provisioning, patching, backups, vulnerability remediation, IAM management, monitoring, troubleshooting, compliance support, and change control. The role maintains secure production and non-production systems, documents operational procedures, supports restore testing and log validation, and collaborates with platform, cybersecurity, network, and application teams. An active Top Secret clearance with a Tier 5 investigation, a bachelor’s degree, five years of experience, and Security+ or AWS Cloud Practitioner certification are required.

Designs, develops, and sustains secure REST APIs, ETL pipelines, middleware, event-driven integrations, and data validation services for DoD modernization. Optimizes schemas and data workflows, manages API gateways, monitors performance, troubleshoots synchronization issues, and ensures interoperability across IL2-IL5 cloud environments. Collaborates with cybersecurity, database, and Agile teams to meet DoD RMF, STIG, Zero Trust, and data governance requirements while maintaining integration documentation and supporting deployment validation.

Develops AI/ML prototypes, APIs, microservices, integrations, and lightweight user interfaces for federal and DoD-aligned mission workflows. The role integrates and optimizes machine learning models for dashboards and applications, supports data ingestion and preprocessing, validates performance, and helps transition models into production. Collaboration with data scientists, architects, developers, PMO leadership, and cybersecurity teams is required. The position requires five years of relevant experience, a bachelor’s degree, ITIL v4 Foundation certification, and Public Trust or active Secret clearance.

Implements and maintains AWS GovCloud configuration standards, Infrastructure-as-Code baselines, CMDB records, and configuration governance for IL5 federal and DoD-aligned environments. Monitors configuration drift, supports audits and remediation, integrates IaC with CI/CD pipelines, and collaborates with cybersecurity and DevSecOps teams on RMF, STIG, Zero Trust, and compliance requirements. Documents cloud configurations, manages change control artifacts, and troubleshoots cloud resource issues.

Designs accessible, responsive enterprise interfaces for federal and DoD-aligned applications. Responsibilities include creating templates, component libraries, interaction patterns, prototypes, workflows, forms, SSO flows, and design documentation. Collaborates with UX researchers, developers, and stakeholders; conducts usability evaluations; incorporates research feedback; and supports design systems while ensuring Section 508 compliance.

Leads integrated communications strategy and planning for federal and DoD-aligned missions. Translates organizational goals and policy priorities into communication plans, messaging frameworks, roadmaps, executive materials, and outreach calendars. Coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, conducts environmental and risk analysis, supports performance measurement, facilitates planning sessions, and ensures consistent messaging across channels.

Performs application security assessments, secure code reviews, API and CMS security testing, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, and remediation validation. Integrates SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management, and security controls into CI/CD pipelines. Advises developers and architects on secure coding, authentication, encryption, and DevSecOps practices while supporting monitoring and incident triage. Requires an active Top Secret clearance, technical bachelor’s degree, seven years of relevant experience, and Security+, CISSP, or CCSP certification.

Coordinates software releases across development, test, staging, and production environments. Manages release schedules, code promotion, version control, deployment readiness, documentation, approvals, hotfixes, rollback procedures, and post-release reviews. Collaborates with development, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, QA, and infrastructure teams while maintaining ITIL-compliant change, release, configuration, and CMDB processes. Supports deployment automation and government stakeholder reporting.

Designs, develops, and maintains middleware services, event-driven workflows, message-based integrations, transformation logic, and system-to-system orchestration. Troubleshoots integration failures, supports testing and validation, documents mappings and system flows, and collaborates with engineering and cybersecurity teams. The role requires secure, scalable, fault-tolerant integrations across federal and DoD environments, with alignment to Zero Trust principles and cybersecurity policies.