Senior Full-Stack Engineer for Federal Modernization

Wilcore Technologies, Inc.; Stafford (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Wilcore Technologies, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Engineer to join the Engineering Excellence Response Team (EERT) supporting federal digital modernization in Virginia.

You will embed with VA system owners, tackle Code Yellow incidents, and drive resolution within 90 days, often on unfamiliar stacks and codebases. You’ll build and integrate full-stack applications, enhance CI/CD and DevSecOps, instrument systems for observability with SLOs and dashboards, and guide stakeholders through

Qualifications

• Proficient in at least one modern backend language and capable across infra, data, and identity.
• Strong fundamentals in Git workflows, CI/CD, testing, and REST API design.
• Practical cloud experience (AWS) beyond tutorials.

Responsibilities

• Deploy rapidly to VA's complex Engineering Issues and embed with VA system owners.
• Conduct impact analysis and help define success criteria for Code Yellow resolutions.
• Build and modify full-stack applications and APIs across the affected system stack.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevSecOps practices.
• Instrument systems for observability and reliability with SLOs and dashboards.
• Work in cloud infrastructure as code, containers, and identity/secrets management.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Produce assessments, runbooks, and recommendations for VA stakeholders.

Skills

Backend language

CI/CD

Git workflows

REST APIs

Relational DBs

AWS

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

Okta

OIDC

Job description

Wilcore Technologies, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Engineer to join the Engineering Excellence Response Team (EERT) supporting federal digital modernization in Virginia.

You will embed with VA system owners, tackle Code Yellow incidents, and drive resolution within 90 days, often on unfamiliar stacks and codebases. You’ll build and integrate full-stack applications, enhance CI/CD and DevSecOps, instrument systems for observability with SLOs and dashboards, and guide stakeholders through