[Hiring] Lead Drupal Architect/Developer @Revolutional, LLC

Role 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.

• 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• Ensure that unpublished, restricted, and administrative content is not exposed through APIs, search indexes, caches, or frontend applications.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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.