Establish and evolve our Azure approach for SaaS products (environments, identity/access patterns, secrets management).
Introduce pragmatic infrastructure practices that improve repeatability and clarity (infrastructure-as-code where it adds value).
Define baseline security and operational hygiene appropriate for government-adjacent software.
Define and implement CI/CD and release workflows that support frequent delivery and safe rollback.
Establish observability standards (logs, metrics, traces), with dashboards and alerting that shorten time-to-diagnosis.
Lead and improve incident response practices and ensure follow-up work translates into measurable reliability improvements.
Help shape backend patterns aligned with vertical slice architecture, keeping boundaries clear and complexity low.
Contribute to backend services and APIs in C#/.NET as needed, emphasizing maintainability and operational clarity.
Guide data access practices using EF Core and SQL Server (migrations, safe change management, performance fundamentals).
Mentor domain-expert engineers transitioning to modern stacks and practices, and help establish working agreements that make modernization sustainable (code review, pairing, technical guidance, standards-by-example).
Produce lightweight runbooks and architecture notes so knowledge is shared and durable.
Partner with the CTO and product/design leadership to sequence platform work that enables product delivery (without over-engineering).

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant backend and systems ownership.
Strong C#/.NET experience building production services and APIs.
Experience operating production workloads in Azure (e.g., App Service, Functions, containers, Azure SQL, Service Bus, Storage).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern release practices.
Strong SQL fundamentals; experience with EF Core and SQL Server in production environments.
Demonstrated ability to design simple interfaces, reduce accidental complexity, and make pragmatic tradeoffs.
Strong communication skills; able to teach, mentor, and align stakeholders on technical decisions.
Nice to have (not required) Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep/ARM/etc.).
Experience modernizing legacy systems into SaaS products.
Experience in regulated, security-sensitive, or audit-heavy environments.

Benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

C#.NETAzureEF CoreSQL ServerCI/CDInfrastructure-as-Codeproduction servicesAPIsbackend services

Soft Skills

communicationmentoringtechnical guidancecollaborationproblem-solvingleadershipteachingstakeholder alignmentincident responsedesign simplicity