Technical Lead

M9 Solutions is seeking aTechnical Lead to work hybrid on a government contract for a client located inWashington, DC. An active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing and understand business needs and translating them into the governance artifacts and product backlog items.
• Develop technical architecture that support development approach.
• Forecast and outline technical tasks that guide weekly development in support of technical projects.
• Partner with a government product owner and collaborate with a Data Science Team.
• Work with Product Manager and product teams, solution architects, and DevSecOps engineers to strategize system design and system implementation for high availability, performance, and resiliency.
• Works with development team to implement, tune, and troubleshoot infrastructure components of the applications (e.g., AWS services, network, OS, PKI).
• Designs and implements containerization resources using IaC (e.g., Terraform).
• Designs and implements common services and configurations (e.g., logging, SSO, VM Images) using IaC (e.g., Terraform).
• Designs and implements automated system management and monitoring capabilities that support resiliency and self-healing.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Work Authorization: US Citizenship is required.
• An active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience leading the use of Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM Templates).
• Significant experience working in Government-owned secure networks (e.g., NIPR, SIPR, A-LAN, C-LAN).
• Significant hands-on experience developing software in Python (or similar).
• Significant experience conducting regular code, configuration, and architecture reviews to ensure technical quality and adherence to best practices.
• Experience developing, training, and evaluating AI/ML models
• Some experience implementing and/or operating application containerization.
• Some experience with centralized log configuration and monitoring tools.
• Some experience configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Understanding of PKI and certificate management.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• 2 years' experience building and maintaining systems within AWS.
• Experience incorporating AI / ML models and analytics into cloud products.
• Experience shepherding prototypes from POC to production.
• 2 years' experience maintaining systems through automated means (e.g., IaC, scripting).
• 1 years' experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM Templates).
• 1 year leading a team of developers to develop MVPs and POCs.
• Experience working with AWS Top-Secret Cloud (i.e., C2S/C2E).
• Experience with event-based systems and/or asynchronous message queue infrastructure.
• Experience with multiple data solutions (e.g., AWS OpenSearch, NoSQL/Document, Indexed Search).
• Experience working in a Scrum based task / team structure (i.e. SAFe Agile 6.0).
• Familiarity and experience with the Intelligence Community (IC), and the intel cycle.
• Familiarity and experience with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).