AWS Systems Engineer

US132 Guidehouse Digital, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a Senior AWS Systems Engineer to support a large-scale federal cloud modernization initiative. You will design, implement, and support secure AWS environments in mission-critical enterprise contexts, with hands-on execution across infra, networking, security, data, and migration tasks.

You will lead migration activities, define target-state architectures, and ensure compliance with federal standards including RMF/NIST.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, implementing, and supporting complex IT systems.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS engineering and architecture experience.
• Built and supported AWS solutions, not just advisory.
• Experience in senior cloud/solutions roles (engineering focus).
• Core AWS services: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS/EFS, RDS, ELB, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and implement enterprise AWS environments for mission workloads.
• Develop infrastructure across networking, security, compute, storage, monitoring, and recovery.
• Lead migration activities including data/app migration and cutover planning.
• Define target-state architectures and lead implementation across hybrid/on-prem environments.
• Provide hands-on AWS troubleshooting and production issue resolution.

Skills

AWS architecture

AWS engineering

Networking

Security

Migration

Multi-account AWS

RDS

Compliance (NIST RMF)

Linux/Windows

Education

Bachelor Degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins

Azure DevOps

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 with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Service Catalog, and enterprise cloud governance frameworks.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and CI/CD tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, lineage, retention policies, and secure data-sharing capabilities.
• Experience designing highly available architectures and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience with FinOps, tagging strategies, cloud cost management, and performance optimization.

The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00-$216,000.00.

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.

What We Offer

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• 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

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

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