Senior Software Architect - Cloud, Drupal & Kafka

International Executive Service Corps; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis is a federal IT company seeking a Software Architect for a Full-Time position to define the end-to-end target architecture, including containerized Kubernetes workloads, Kafka-based event-driven integration, API-first services, cloud data and secrets management, and a secure DevSecOps pipeline.

The role leads architecture governance, drives scalable and secure solutions, mentors senior engineers, and ensures federal security and accessibility requirements are met in a complex government

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering with 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with federal security programs and accessibility standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the solution architecture across application, data, infrastructure, and security views.
• Design event-driven integration using Kafka and schema governance.
• Define API-first strategy with versioning, authentication, logging, monitoring.

Skills

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

Drupal 10+

DevSecOps

CI/CD

API design

SecOps

508 compliance

SAFe/Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

EKS

Aurora

S3

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Trivy

Job description

NuAxis is a federal IT company seeking a Software Architect for a Full-Time position to define the end-to-end target architecture, including containerized Kubernetes workloads, Kafka-based event-driven integration, API-first services, cloud data and secrets management, and a secure DevSecOps pipeline.

The role leads architecture governance, drives scalable and secure solutions, mentors senior engineers, and ensures federal security and accessibility requirements are met in a complex government