AI/DevSecOps Installation Architect

Role Description

NetImpact Strategies is seeking an AI/DevSecOps Installation Architect to join our Product Team. This role serves as a senior technical leader responsible for architecting, integrating, and delivering innovative AI-enabled solutions that accelerate digital transformation across Federal Government organizations. As a key member of the AI Forge Product Team, the Architect will define technical strategy, establish enterprise integration patterns, and guide the development of scalable solutions that leverage artificial intelligence, automation, and modern cloud technologies.

This individual will collaborate with product managers, engineers, data architects, and client stakeholders to design secure, scalable, and mission-focused solutions that enable agencies to maximize the value of AI-powered capabilities. The Technical Architect will play a critical role in shaping the AI Forge product roadmap and ensuring seamless interoperability across complex enterprise environments.

• Lead product installations for customers
• Serve as lead for the technical team, leveraging experience and judgment to resolve issues as a point of escalation. These discussions may entail:
  • Identifying strategies to create better collaboration among developers, testers, project managers, and users, using development methods and automated practices
  • Creating/implementing innovative technical solutions within budget/timelines that prove successful (metrics/feedback) to alleviate manual workload and burden
• Define the system, technical, and application architectures for critical areas of development and recommend a course of action to maintain cost-effectiveness and competitiveness
• Provide hands-on support for agile development, defect/bug triage, and fixes while ensuring long-term technical sustainability and architectural soundness:
  • Leading Sprint retrospectives
  • Supporting peer and management code reviews
  • Participate in business and technical requirement sessions
  • Provide technical estimates and a rough level of effort (SWAG)
  • Work effectively and efficiently on tight deadlines as necessary
  • Perform code reviews for functional accuracy and alignment with best practices, or develop Best Practices unique to the technology stack and customer environment
  • Stay up to date on business initiatives and objectives, particularly infrastructure and development architecture issues
• Research and implement best practices frameworks/capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality, and increase the predictability of service delivery
• Develop Proof of Concept prototypes to demonstrate the value or benefits of new technologies and processes, e.g.:
  • Improving quality and reducing effort for development testing, including the creation of test cases and automating tests
• Provide technical inputs in an understandable format for Senior Executive briefings and other reports, including:
  • Delivering complex presentations or demos to describe functional changes or requirements released with the latest package or image
  • Team performance based on task completion, challenges, issues, and status using a centralized requirements management tool
  • State of progress against strategic roadmap, both technical and business
• Work with Functional SMEs and Developers to estimate the level of effort (LOE) of requirements and design solutions or development tasks that meet short-term and long-term needs using comprehensive, realistic, and effective plans
• Recognize problems or situations that are new or without clear precedent; evaluate alternatives and recommend solutions using a systematic, multi-step approach based on LOE and impact assessments
• Regularly review and provide LOE estimation inputs to the application backlog as a part of continuous backlog grooming, support technical design discussions, and provide inputs during Sprint grooming to release features
• Support user acceptance testing and demos and participate in code reviews, as required

Qualifications

• US Citizenship is required
• Bachelor’s degree in any field with at least 5 years of combined commercial and Federal experience in software development, DevOps, and technical leadership
• Public trust eligible (preference over resources who already possesses a Public Trust and/or a DoD CAC)
• 5 years+ of progressive experience and proficiency in the following:
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Terraform
  • CLIs
  • Opensource Tech Stack
  • Native Cloud Services & Serverless Technologies
• Demonstrated ability to:
  • Manage large-scale applications supporting large user bases (1000+ concurrent users)
  • Provide technical architecture improvement recommendations
  • Independently create successful technical solutions to address business needs of similar complexity
  • Provide review and QA for the work of others on the team and train and lead junior team members
  • Accept ultimate responsibility for the overall IT solution to business problems presented on the project, and ensure the solutions are appropriately implemented
  • Support modernization and migration of functionality and data between various systems
  • Provide technical expertise throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using DevOps/DevSecOps. This capability includes:
    • Software design recommendations, development plans, system modeling and analysis, product/service capability analysis, and technical documentation for custom applications
  • Lead the specifications, design, development, and maintenance of large-scale, Internet-based applications, frameworks, and platforms
  • Research new tools and technologies and come up with recommendations on deploying them in client applications, including:
    • Maintaining and improving GitX processes and other DevOps workflows, including automation workarounds and innovations for the team in building a more robust capacity
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills, particularly in translating technical concepts into an understandable format
  • Self-starting and self-managing – the ability to work independently to complete tasks and proactive reach out to resolve challenges promptly
  • Strong customer-service attitude

Requirements

• Experience designing, modifying, and implementing complex software programming components and applications for application enhancements/upgrades that requires:
  • Development using NodeJS, Python
  • Experience with GitLab, AWS CodeCommit, GitHub
  • Experience with DevSecOps/DevOps deployment in CI/CD layer to web-based cloud platforms (particularly AWS GovCloud PaaS)
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with RHEL7 Linux
  • Experience with IronBank images
• Familiarity with Identity and Authentication Systems (ForgeRock) and frameworks (OIDC)
• Familiarity with no SQL databases (MongoDB)
• Troubleshoot complex application problems and defects in a custom technology build
• Drive software design for agile software teams, including patterns, design diagrams, and team direction and mentorship

Benefits

• Your health comes first – we offer comprehensive medical, dental, & vision insurance that starts the first of the month after you join the team
• Invest in your future – 401(k) Plan – Immediately vested employer contributions; no matching required
• Work hard, play hard – we offer a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policy, one (1) additional day of paid wellness leave per calendar year, and observe ten (10) federal holidays
• Pawsitively pawesome – Pet Insurance (because our little critters are part of our families, too!)
• Invest in your education – Tuition reimbursement, internal training programs, & company-sponsored industry certifications!
• Be part of a dynamic and collaborative work environment recently ranked by The Washington Post as a Top Work Place in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, & 2024!
• Have fun and celebrate and give back – Team building activities, community volunteering, quarterly HQ days, wellness events, happy hours, family fun events, and more!