Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long-term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.
Job Summary
- Seeking an experienced AWS Software Engineer to support the modernization of mission-critical cybersecurity platforms defending national security systems against evolving cyber threats
- The ideal candidate will develop, maintain, and enhance a complex software system comprised of distributed microservices, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch analytics platforms, event-driven workflows, and multiple data persistence technologies
- The ideal candidate will contribute to the design, deployment, automation, and sustainment of scalable cloud-native capabilities across AWS and hybrid environments leveraging Kubernetes, AWS serverless technologies (Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and modern DevSecOps practices
Primary Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain secure AWS cloud infrastructure and on-premises environments utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, and related technologies
- Monitor system performance, cloud utilization, scalability, and operational health
- Configure and manage Kubernetes clusters
- Engineer solutions for automating deployments and all associated software configurations to increase reliability of software applications
- Participate in technical design sessions and develop detailed technical solutions
- Support proxy configuration to handle routing and management of user requests
- Evaluate and revise solutions for data redundancy and backup
- Evaluate opportunities for process improvements and automation as well as end-to-end deployment pipelines
- Confer with mission customers and team members to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
- Collaborate in Agile scrum cycles
Required Qualifications
- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Must have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field
- Minimum of Seven (7+) years’ experience as a Software Engineer
- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, Python
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, SIEM
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience working as part of an Agile development team
Desired Qualifications
- Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills
- Experience supporting government managed services cloud environments
- AWS Certified Developer and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field
- At least seven years' experience as a Software Engineer
- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, and Python
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, SIEM, and Terraform
- Experience working as part of an Agile development team
What We Do
Momentum Engineering understands that our customer's unique missions require innovative software solutions and data-driven engineering methodologies. These approaches leverage DevOps principles and cloud-based automation ensuring that applications and systems can be characterized and reliably measured. Our specialists, working as trusted partners to our customers, have been developing, integrating and maintaining data-centric solutions since our founding in February 2015. Momentum Engineering provides highly-skilled System Engineers, Software Engineers, and formally trained Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Subject Matter Experts to our customers to help them move their missions forward.
