Microservices Engineer

Initiate Government Solutions, LLC.

full-time

Posted on: 3/6/2026

Location Type: Remote

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About the role

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

Benefits

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
Education assistance program with potential merit increases for obtaining a work-related certification
Employee recognition and referral programs
Spot bonuses

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpring BootRubyDevOpsCI/CDDockerKubernetesAPI Programmingbackend data integrationsmonitoring tools

Soft Skills

executive communication