AWS Systems Engineer

Guidehouse Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse Inc. is seeking a Senior AWS Systems Engineer to design, implement, and support secure AWS environments for a large-scale federal cloud modernization program.

The role demands hands-on AWS engineering across infrastructure, security, data, and migrations, with multi-account and multi-tenant designs. The ideal candidate combines deep AWS architecture with practical deployment experience in enterprise settings, including compliance with NIST RMF and ATO processes.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required and ability to obtain/public trust.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 8+ years designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise IT systems.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS engineering and architecture experience.
• Experience with federal compliance and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure, and implement enterprise AWS environments for critical workloads.
• Develop AWS infrastructure across networking, security, compute, storage, monitoring, and recovery.
• Lead migrations and modernization across hybrid/on-prem environments.
• Define target-state cloud architectures and enable secure multi-account setups.
• Provide hands-on troubleshooting and operations support for AWS environments.
• Produce migration runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.

Skills

US Citizenship

Public Trust eligibility

Bachelor's degree

8+ years IT experience

5+ years AWS engineering

Strong communication

Senior cloud engineering

Education

Bachelor Degree

Tools

EC2

VPC

IAM

S3

EBS/EFS

RDS

Elastic Load Balancing

KMS

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Job description

Job Family : Systems Engineering

Travel Required : Up to 10%

Clearance Required : Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do

• Guidehouse is seeking a Senior AWS Systems Engineer to support a large-scale federal cloud modernization initiative. This role requires a highly technical, hands-on cloud engineering professional capable of designing, implementing, and supporting secure AWS environments in mission-critical enterprise environments.
• This position is ideal for an engineer who combines AWS architecture depth with recent hands-on implementation experience across infrastructure, networking, security, data, and migration activities.
• Design, build, configure, and implement enterprise AWS environments supporting critical business and mission workloads.
• Develop AWS infrastructure across networking, security, compute, storage, monitoring, logging, resiliency, and backup/recovery services.
• Assess existing infrastructure, applications, databases, and integrations to identify modernization opportunities and migration approaches.
• Define target-state cloud architectures and lead implementation across hybrid and on-premises environments.
• Execute migration activities including application/data migration, environment readiness, cutover planning, validation, and operational transition.
• Design and implement secure multi-account and multi-tenant AWS environments using best practices for segmentation, access control, encryption, monitoring, and governance.
• Design and optimize enterprise data architectures and pipelines across AWS, including data models, integration frameworks, ingestion, transformation, and storage solutions.
• Support enterprise data solutions involving relational databases, AWS RDS, object storage, data migration, protection, backup, recovery, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application development, data management, and operations teams to implement technical solutions that satisfy business and compliance requirements.
• Produce solution designs, implementation guides, migration runbooks, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and support documentation.
• Lead technical working sessions to resolve architecture decisions, migration challenges, integration requirements, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Support cloud operations, disaster recovery, high availability, capacity planning, performance optimization, and operational readiness.
• Provide hands-on AWS troubleshooting, engineering support, implementation, and production issue resolution.

What You Will Need

• US Citizenship
• 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 with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
• Bachelor Degree
• Minimum EIGHT (8) years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting complex enterprise IT systems.
• Minimum FIVE (5) years of hands‑on AWS engineering and architecture experience.
• Recent hands‑on AWS engineering experience deploying, configuring, troubleshooting, and supporting enterprise cloud environments. Candidates must have built and supported AWS solutions directly, not solely provided architecture or advisory services.
• Experience serving in senior cloud engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, or solutions architecture roles.
• Strong experience with core AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS/EFS, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and backup/disaster recovery services.
• Experience implementing AWS environments, not only creating architecture documentation.
• Experience designing and supporting multi‑account, multi‑environment, or multi‑tenant cloud environments.
• Experience planning and executing cloud modernization and migration initiatives.
• Strong database and data platform experience including SQL‑based systems, relational databases, data migration, and data lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with enterprise data integration, reporting, compliance, audit, or analytics‑supporting architectures.
• Experience supporting federal compliance environments, including NIST 800‑53, RMF, STIGs, ATO processes, continuous monitoring, audit, and security controls.
• Experience supporting hybrid, secured, restricted, or enclave environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Windows, enterprise networking, DNS, firewalls, proxies, identity federation, load balancing, monitoring, encryption, backup, and recovery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What Would Be Nice To Have

• Active Federal or DoD Top Secret clearance.
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, Security Specialty, Database Specialty, or Data Analytics Specialty.
• Experience supporting federal law enforcement, national security, intelligence, or other highly regulated government environments.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud.
• Experience