AWS Cloud Engineer

North South Consulting Group; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

North South Consulting Group is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer – IL6 / Backend & Database to design, deploy, and secure cloud solutions in IL6 AWS GovCloud environments. You will build backend services, APIs, data services, and scalable databases while meeting DoD RMF requirements. This is a 100% remote role in the United States.

Salary Range: 130k+. The role emphasizes Terraform/CloudFormation, CI/CD, and DevSecOps with focus on reliability, performance, and compliance for mission-critical

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years designing and administering AWS cloud environments.
• Experience in AWS IL6 or GovCloud or high-security government clouds.
• Experience with multiple relational DBs and AWS DB services.
• Strong REST API, microservices, and backend development experience.
• Proficient with Terraform and/or CloudFormation and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of DoD security baselines and RMF/NIST.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain secure AWS IL6 infrastructure.
• Develop and integrate backend services, APIs, and data components.
• Design scalable, highly available database architectures in AWS.
• Build and optimize relational databases and data models.
• Develop cloud-native apps with serverless, containers, and microservices.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Enforce security controls per DoD, DISA, FedRAMP, and RMF.

Skills

AWS IAM

Terraform

CloudFormation

Serverless

APIs

CI/CD

NIST RMF

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

RDS/Aurora

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

Oracle

Terraform

CloudFormation

Lambda

Job description

Position Summary

The AWS Cloud Engineer – IL6 / Backend & Database is responsible for designing, developing, deploying, securing, and maintaining cloud-based solutions within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Impact Level 6 (IL6) environments supporting mission-critical government and Department of Defense (DoD) programs.

The position combines advanced AWS cloud engineering, backend application development, and database engineering responsibilities. The engineer will develop and integrate backend services, APIs, data services, and database solutions while ensuring that infrastructure and applications meet stringent security, performance, scalability, availability, and compliance requirements.
This position is 100% remote.

Salary Range: 130k+

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain secure AWS infrastructure within IL6 environments.
• Develop, integrate, and maintain backend applications, microservices, APIs, and data services supporting mission-critical systems.
• Design and implement scalable, highly available database architectures within AWS.
• Develop and optimize relational databases, including schema design, indexing, queries, stored procedures, transactions, and performance tuning.
• Work with technologies such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, DynamoDB, and other AWS database services as appropriate.
• Design and implement data models and database schemas that support application and mission requirements.
• Develop cloud-native applications using serverless, containerized, and microservices architectures where appropriate.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated application, infrastructure, and database deployments.
• Implement and maintain AWS security controls consistent with DoD, DISA, FedRAMP, NIST, and RMF requirements.
• Configure and manage AWS IAM, encryption, secrets management, security groups, logging, monitoring, and other security capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and administering AWS cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience working in AWS IL6, AWS GovCloud, or comparable high-security government cloud environments.
• Experience with one or more enterprise database platforms such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or Amazon Aurora.
• Experience with AWS database services such as RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing database schemas, data models, relationships, and data-access layers.
• Experience developing REST APIs, microservices, or other backend services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience implementing security controls within regulated AWS environments.
• Understanding of NIST 800-53, RMF, FedRAMP, DISA STIGs, and DoD cybersecurity requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS GovCloud and IL6 environments.
• Experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora PostgreSQL in large-scale production environments.
• Experience with DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases.
• Experience with database replication, clustering, partitioning, and high-availability architectures.