Red Arch Solutions is looking for a Principal Cloud Software Engineer with deep expertise in DevOps and AWS Cloud technologies to join a high-priority program in Annapolis Junction, Maryland. An active TS/SCI with Polygraph is required.
This position has TELEWORK up to 2 days per week, dependent on tasking.
As a Principal Cloud SWE, you will lead the development and enhancement of complex, distributed systems based on well-defined requirements - leveraging cutting-edge AWS services, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and modern DevOps pipelines. You’ll work across the full software lifecycle and collaborate closely with a team of top-tier engineers and system architects to build scalable, secure, and resilient systems. This role offers the opportunity to make a direct impact by designing, developing, and deploying advanced cloud-native solutions that support critical national security initiatives. If you're a software engineer who enjoys solving hard problems with cloud-based solutions, this is your opportunity to grow within a technically challenging and rewarding environment.
Basic Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related discipline from an accredited college or university, plus twenty (20) years of experience as an SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
- Some experience in SE skills (requirements decomposition)
- Terraform as Infrastructure as Code (IoC)
- Lambda Functions utilizing Python 3.11
- AWS RDS Aurora PostgreSQL Database
- Poetry for python dependency mgmt
- Docker containers
- Pgadmin to facilitate the database mgmt
- SE3 with presigned URLs
- SQS
- SNS
- MakeFile
- API Gateway with Lambda Authorizer
- Step Functions DynamoDB as a user cache
- Cloudwatch
- AWS Professional Cloud certification(s) within 6 months of employment.
- Direct experience in cloud/ML/AI and or similar technology.
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What We Do
Red Arch Solutions is a premier U.S. small business providing its customers with state-of-the-art tactical and strategic intelligence, systems, and software engineering solutions, solving some of the most pressing and unique intelligence community challenges related to National Security.
Our employees are exceptionally skilled professionals; individuals who are dedicated to collecting, analyzing, creating and engineering the best solutions in support of critical missions. Red Arch Solutions takes pride in the success of our customers. The depth of our engineers’ experience combined with our breadth of exposure across the intelligence community enables us to provide value added, synergistic analytical and engineering support.
Unique to Red Arch Solutions is the focus on its employees. Our guiding principle is “People First.” We offer employees career mobility and stability, work-life balance flexibility, and individualized career paths. The loyalty of highly trained, skilled professionals is our key corporate asset.
Red Arch Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer.
