Initiate Government Solutions - Microservices Engineer

Initiate Government Solutions

Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is a Woman-Owned Small Business and a fully remote IT services provider supporting federal partners nationwide. We deliver innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions with a strong focus on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, AI, and the modernization of federal information systems.

Our vision is to be a health IT trendsetter, continuing to solve the nation’s most challenging healthcare IT issues by conceiving, designing, and building solid, creative, and innovative open-source solutions.

Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver tailored solutions that balance technical advancement with cost-awareness while providing exceptional service.

IGS is currently recruiting for a remote Microservices Engineer to support our work with our federal customer.

Assignment of Work and Travel

This is a remote access assignment. The Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access customer systems and therein use approved customer provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested.

This program is a transformative initiative by the customer aimed at modernizing and streamlining access to data and services through secure, reliable, and scalable APIs. As a member of the team, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and supporting API solutions that empower veterans, partners, and internal stakeholders to access critical information and services efficiently.

This role provides technical leadership across Microservices and agile teams, guiding architecture, code quality, reliability, and scalability within a cloud-native microservices environment. It advises executives on strategic technology decisions while overseeing critical deployments, operational readiness, on-call support, and risk-sensitive activities such as secret key rotations and system health monitoring.

Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to)

• Oversee technical direction of 32 microservices across 6 agile teams
• Participate in architecture and code reviews of Springboot and Ruby microservices as well as AWS Elastic Kubernetes YAML configurations
• Advise on improvements to health and DORA monitors and metrics
• Identify and recommend solutions to address scalability, reliability, and availability
• Advise executives on strategic technology decisions related to microservices and team capacity
• Oversee major deployments and high-risk secret key rotations
• Oversee on-call operations

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with a preference for Java, Spring Boot, and Ruby expertise
• Experience with DevOps including CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and version control systems
• Experience operating in a 24/7 environment 99.999 SLA environment
• Experience with public-facing APIs
• Experience with complex backend data integrations
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Data Dog, Kibana
• Strong executive communication skills
• API Programming: Mastery
• DevOps Engineering: Advanced
• DevOps-AWS: Advanced
• GitHub: Advanced
• Java Spring Framework: Mastery
• US Citizenship required due to clearance requirement
• Strong organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications and Core Competencies

• Docker: Intermediate
• Kubernetes: Intermediate
• Octopus Deploy: Intermediate
• Active VA Public Trust
• Prior experience supporting federal agencies
• Certifications in cloud technologies, API development, or secure software engineering
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Prior, successful experience working in a remote environment

Successful IGS employees embody the following Core Values

• Integrity, Honesty, and Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest level of ethics. Doing things like being accountable for mistakes, accepting helpful criticism, and following through on commitments to ourselves, each other, and our customers.
• Empathy, Emotional Intelligence: How we interact with others including peers, colleagues, stakeholders, and customers’ matters. We take collective responsibility to create an environment where colleagues and customers feel valued, included, and respected. We work within a diverse, integrated, and collaborative team to drive towards accomplishing the larger mission. We conscientiously and meticulously learn about our customers’ and end-users’ business drivers and challenges to ensure solutions meet not only technical needs but also support their mission.
• Strong Work Ethic (Reliability, Dedication, Productivity): We are driven by a strong, self-motivated, and results-driven work ethic. We are reliable, accountable, proactive, and tenacious and will do what it takes to get the job done.
• Life-Long Learner (Curious, Perspective, Goal Oriented): We challenge ourselves to continually learn and improve ourselves. We strive to be an expert in our field, continuously honing our craft, and finding solutions where others see problems.

Compensation: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary, including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.

Benefits: Initiate Government Solutions offers competitive compensation and a robust benefits package, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care, matching 401K and profit sharing, paid time off, training time for personal development, flexible spending accounts, employer-paid life insurance, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage, an education assistance program with potential merit increases for obtaining a work-related certification, employee recognition, and referral programs, spot bonuses, and other benefits that help provide financial protection for the employee and their family.

Initiate Government Solutions participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program.