Jobs at Skyward IT Solutions, LLC

Lead IT modernization for the DOT CTO: align IT investments with strategy, create and maintain system modernization plans (scope, schedule, metrics), analyze existing systems for effectiveness and innovation, and support cost-effective, cloud-based solutions across software development projects.

Lead architecture and technical vision to merge and modernize CMS systems on AWS. Design modular, containerized, IaC-driven platforms with CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, and LLM/automation capabilities. Guide migrations, apply modern patterns (strangler-fig), translate stakeholder needs, and provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.

Operate and tune AWS environments to meet SLAs, build observability and alerts, automate infrastructure with IaC and CI/CD, define SLIs/SLOs, support security/compliance within a FISMA Moderate boundary, design resilience and DR plans, and own incident response and post-mortems.

Design, deploy, and operate secure, cost‑efficient AWS environments. Build AI/ML-ready infrastructure, enforce security and compliance (FISMA/RMF), implement HA and disaster recovery, manage multi‑tenant isolation, automate with IaC, monitor and optimize performance and cloud costs.

Design, build, test, deploy, and monitor scalable software systems. Own CI/CD pipelines, IaC, containerization, automated test suites, security gates, and performance tuning while collaborating with design and stakeholders.

Conduct user research and testing, create personas, journeys, and IA; design wireframes and prototypes in Figma; build production-ready, responsive, accessible front-end components in React (HTML/CSS/JS); champion USWDS and federal accessibility standards; create data visualizations and dashboards; instrument analytics and iterate based on usability and metrics.