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Lead Drupal Architect/Developer

McLean, Virginia, United States

Revolutional delivers advanced technology solutions and mission support to federal agencies across civilian, health, and national security environments. We apply modern capabilities, including AI/ML, cloud, cybersecurity, and IT modernization to solve complex challenges, enable faster and more secure operations, and drive measurable mission outcomes.

We are redefining how federal technology gets built and delivered by operating with a product mindset, prioritizing speed, ownership, and execution over bureaucracy.

Description

Title: Lead Drupal Architect/Developer

Location: Remote

Terms: Full-time

Salary: $135-165k DoE

Clearance: Public Trust

Travel: 0%

 

Position Description

 

We are seeking an experienced Drupal Architect/Developer to design, develop, secure, and deploy the Drupal 11 CMS backend for a public-facing federal agency website.

The role will work closely with the AWS Cloud Architect, frontend developers, security team, content administrators, and agency stakeholders to deliver a secure, scalable, accessible, and maintainable Drupal platform integrated with a modern React/Next.js frontend in AWS GovCloud. The Drupal Architect will help define the hosting and deployment architecture, establish secure connections among Drupal, databases, storage, caching, search, APIs, and the frontend, and implement infrastructure and application configuration through approved DevSecOps processes.

The ideal candidate has significant prior experience deploying Drupal 11 in a regulated cloud environment, preferably AWS GovCloud, supporting the federal ATO activities.

Responsibilities: 

  • Design and implement the Drupal 11 CMS architecture for a high-availability, public-facing website.
  • Configure Drupal content types, taxonomies, workflows, roles, permissions, moderation, publishing, and editorial features.
  • Develop custom Drupal modules, services, plugins, event subscribers, and integrations.
  • Configure and secure Drupal JSON:API, GraphQL, or other APIs used by the React/Next.js frontend.
  • Define backup, recovery, logging, monitoring, scaling, and disaster-recovery requirements.
  • Identify and remediate application and infrastructure security risks.
  • Provide technical information and evidence required for the ATO process.
  • Coordinate deployment, testing, release management, and production support.
  • Collaborate with the AWS Cloud Architect on deployment architecture, networking, storage, databases, caching, logging, monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery.
  • Deploy and operate Drupal in AWS GovCloud using approved services and containerized or automated deployment patterns.Integrate Drupal with PostgreSQL, object storage, caching services, search platforms, CDN services, and external APIs.
  • Ensure that unpublished, restricted, and administrative content is not exposed through APIs, search indexes, caches, or frontend applications.
  • Implement secure Drupal administration, authentication, authorization, session management, and administrative access controls.
  • Review and manage Drupal modules, Composer dependencies, PHP libraries, and third-party integrations.
  • Establish Drupal coding standards, development practices, branching strategies, and release procedures.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code reviews, vulnerability remediation, and controlled production releases.
  • Optimize Drupal performance, caching, database queries, API responses, and media delivery.
  • Support content migration, data modeling, integration testing, performance testing, and production readiness activities.
  • Develop technical documentation, deployment procedures, configuration guides, data-flow diagrams, and operational runbooks.
  • Support security assessments, vulnerability remediation, ATO documentation, and continuous-monitoring activities.
  • Troubleshoot application, integration, performance, deployment, and production issues.
  • Mentor Drupal developers and promote maintainable, reusable, and secure solutions.

Requirements

  • U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
  • 7+ years of Drupal development experience, including architecture and production deployments.
  • Demonstrated experience with Drupal 9, 10, or 11; direct Drupal 11 experience in AWS cloud environment is strongly preferred.
  • Strong experience with PHP, Symfony, Composer, Twig, Drupal APIs, configuration management, and custom module development.
  • Experience designing Drupal content models, taxonomies, editorial workflows, permissions, and moderation processes.
  • Experience with decoupled or headless Drupal implementations.
  • Experience integrating Drupal with React, Next.js, JSON:API, GraphQL, or similar frontend technologies.
  • Experience with integrating with AWS managed database service (RDS/PostgreSQL or MySQL) and database backed React applications.
  • Experience deploying Drupal using containers, automated pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code environments.
  • Working knowledge of AWS managed cloud services and cloud deployment concepts.
  • Experience with Drupal security updates, dependency management, secure configuration, access control, and vulnerability remediation.
  • Experience with automated testing, code review, version control, and CI/CD practices.
  • Experience supporting public-facing, high-traffic, or mission-critical websites.
  • Ability to create technical documentation and communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

 Desired

  • Experience supporting federal agencies, government contractors, FedRAMP environments, or ATO activities.
  • Experience with accessibility requirements, including Section 508 and WCAG.
  • Prior experience deploying Drupal in AWS GovCloud or another regulated cloud environment.
  • Experience integrating Drupal with Amazon Bedrock and AI-enabled chatbot/search.
  • Experience with AWS services such as ECS/Fargate, Aurora or PostgreSQL, S3, CloudFront, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, WAF, and Secrets Manager.
  • Experience with automated Drupal security and quality tools.
  • Acquia, Drupal or relevant professional certifications.

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Here at Revolutional we are pleased to have been repeatedly recognized for our outstanding work culture, the innovative work we do, and the employees on our team who make a difference each day.  Some of these recognitions include:  

  • Recognized as a Top 20 "Best Place to Work in Virginia"
  • Recipient of Department of Labor's HireVets Gold Medallion
  • Great Place to Work Certification for five years running
  • A Virginia Chamber of Commerce Fantastic 50 company
  • A Northern Virginia Technology Council Tech 100 company 
  • Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies for eleven years
  • Two-time SBA SBIR Tibbett's Award winner
  • Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Certification

We recognize that every bit of our success is the result of our teams of hard-working, motivated, and innovative professionals who are proud to call themselves part of the Revolutional family!   In addition to competitive compensation, a family-focused culture, and a dynamic, productive work environment, we offer all full-time employees a variety of benefits including, but not limited to

  • Traditional and HSA- eligible medical insurance plans 
  • 100% employer-paid dental and vision insurance options 
  • 100% employer-sponsored STD, LTD, and life insurance
  • 5% 401(k) company matching
  • Flexible-schedules and teleworking options
  • Paid holidays and PTO Accrual Plans
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Professional development and career growth opportunities 
  • Team and company-wide events, recognition, and appreciation-- and so much more! 

Check out our Revolutional | LinkedIn to find out a little more about who we are and if we are the right next step for your career!   

Revolutional is an Equal Opportunity Employer providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or genetics. Revolutional does and will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.  To perform the above job successfully, an individual must possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed; meet the education and work experience required; and must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily.  Other duties in addition to those listed may be assigned as necessary to meet business needs.  Reasonable accommodation will be made to enable an applicant with a disability to successfully apply for and/or perform the essential duties of the job.  If you are in need of an accommodation, please contact HR@revolutional.com.  

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