Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform (TS/SCI)

Visionist, Inc.

Laurel (MD)

Hybrid

USD 170,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Employee-owned

401K match

ESOP

PTO 4 weeks

Holidays

Parental leave

Health benefits

Lifestyle bonus

Bonuses

Job summary

Visionist, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Platform to lead cloud infrastructure for our AI capabilities on a premier contract.

You will design, deploy, and maintain AWS-based systems, collaborating with analysts and engineers to deliver scalable platform solutions. Ideal candidates will have 12+ years of software development experience, strong leadership, and hands-on expertise with EKS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, plus production-grade security practices and observability

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (Additional 4 years of experience may substitute degree).
12 years of experience in software development.
Experience with AWS services such as EKS, Terraform, IAM, and Route 53.
Experience with Kubernetes and Helm/Kustomize.
Experience with Docker/containerization.
Experience with Argo CD and/or other CI/CD frameworks.
Experience configuring and using observability tooling such as the Elastic Stack (Kibana) and Grafana/Prometheus.
Experience with certificate management and cloud-native security practices.
Experience supporting cloud-native architecture and maintaining production software and infrastructure.
Ability to take high-level mission goals and transform them into engineering outcomes.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
Ability to balance hands-on engineering with leadership and coordination responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure used by the organization’s AI capabilities (AWS, Kubernetes).
Translate high-level stakeholder goals into engineering outcomes and platform solutions.
Work within ambiguous problem spaces and define structured solutions the team can execute against.
Mentor engineers and grow development best practices, engineering standards, and technical governance for the team.
Establish and enforce security best practices for infrastructure systems and data, including certificate and identity management.