AWS Engineer

About the role

The organization operates within the federal contracting industry, partnering with over 60 government clients to support mission-critical projects. It addresses the challenge of delivering secure, compliant, and scalable IT solutions in a regulated government environment, focusing on cloud and infrastructure services that meet strict federal standards. The AWS Engineer role is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining secure and scalable AWS cloud infrastructure that supports federal mission requirements. This position plays a key role in implementing cloud solutions and automation tools that ensure compliance, operational efficiency, and technological advancement within a government context.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with government leads and product owners to define technical requirements and deployment timelines.
• Architect AWS solutions using services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, ECS/EKS, and API Gateway.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and related tools.
• Ensure infrastructure aligns with federal governance, security, and compliance standards including FedRAMP and NIST 800-53.
• Configure networking, security groups, encryption, and identity/access controls according to federal requirements.
• Support integrations between AWS systems and external platforms, ensuring data integrity.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, performance, and deployment issues.
• Prepare and deliver technical briefings and executive summaries to government stakeholders.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Information Systems Management, Math, Statistics, Operations Research, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of five years experience designing and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure for federal or public sector clients.
• Proficiency with core AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, ECS/EKS.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK.
• Experience developing and managing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, and identity/access management in regulated environments.
• Experience with AWS monitoring and alerting tools like CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, ATO, or NIST 800-53 compliance frameworks preferred.
• AWS certification preferred.
• Salesforce product experience is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to pass government background checks and security clearances as required.

Pay

Estimated starting salary range: $100,000 to $140,000. Pay commensurate with experience.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)