• Design, develop, and maintain distributed systems and microservices (hands-on coding role) • Build, integrate, and evolve intelligent agents and AI-enabled services using LLMs and automation frameworks • Define and implement patterns for agent orchestration, system interaction, and decision workflows • Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, automation, and “controls-as-code” practices • Partner closely with systems engineers and ISSEs to embed requirements and security into platform design and code • Establish development standards for GitHub-based collaboration, testing, and documentation • Mentor mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance • Lead integration of CI/CD pipelines, security tooling, and ATO considerations into everyday development • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate mission and operational needs into scalable technical solutions • Contribute to an “everything as code” approach , expressing infrastructure, automation, agent behavior, workflows, and operational artifacts as version-controlled, testable code • Define and promote patterns for expressing intent, requirements, automation, and controls as code , enabling consistency, traceability, and automation across the development lifecycle