Systems AWS Platform Engineer

Travel Required: Up to 10%

Clearance Required: Ability to obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do

• Build and maintain a self-service application delivery platform for AWS workloads.
• Design reusable Jenkins shared libraries and pipeline standards.
• Create Terraform module stacks for ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, and related AWS services.
• Define the YAML-based application contract used by application teams.
• Implement promotion workflows, approvals, drift prevention, and environment separation.
• Partner with developers, security, and operations to deliver secure golden paths.
• Design and develop end-to-end Jenkins Declarative and Scripted pipelines using Groovy to automate seamless code promotion from development through to production environments.
• Build Terraform modules and root-module compositions for multi-service applications.
• Support ECS Fargate and optional AWS capabilities such as S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM.
• Standardize build, test, deploy, and approval workflows.
• Establish Terraform state and environment management practices.
• Create documentation, templates, and onboarding guides for application teams.
• Improve reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or additional four (4) years experience in lieu of degree.
• Four (4) to ten (10) years Platform Development experience.
• Strong AWS experience, especially ECS, IAM, S3, SQS, Lambda, VPC, and CloudWatch.
• Hands-on Terraform experience, including module design and backend/state management.
• Jenkins pipeline expertise, preferably shared libraries and multibranch pipelines.
• Experience creating reusable platform abstractions for multiple services.
• Good scripting ability in Bash or Python.
• Understanding of SDLC, deployment strategies, and release governance.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD "Public Trust"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their Public Trust prior to onboarding. Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing IDP (Internal Developer Platforms).
• Experience with Spring Boot or containerized Java services.
• Experience with approval gates, policy enforcement, and environment promotion.
• Experience with multi-account AWS design.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and asynchronous patterns.
• Experience onboarding application teams to shared tooling.
• Experience supporting ServiceNow-based low-code applications.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $98,000.00 - $163,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)

Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.