Senior AWS Cloud Engineer — DevOps (TS/SCI)

Strategic Business Systems, Inc (SBS); Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) Match

Paid Time Off

AWS Certification Training

Employee Referral Program

Life Insurance + Disability

Telework Options

Job summary

SBS partners with Amazon Web Services to staff senior engineers who blend application development with cloud and DevOps on a high-visibility federal program. You will own services end-to-end—from coding to deployment, monitoring, and production operations.

This role requires a current TS/SCI with CI Polygraph and is staffed onsite at Fort Meade, MD. You will collaborate with AWS Professional Services and the customer teams where uptime, performance, and security matter.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship with active TS/SCI and CI Polygraph.
• Six or more years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC, IAM).
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Docker and container deployments.
• Linux environment proficiency; Bash scripting.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable AWS-native applications.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for frequent, auditable deployments.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Develop APIs, microservices, and event-driven components using AWS services.
• Ensure production readiness, security, and performance before release.
• Containerize workloads with Docker and operate on ECS/EKS.
• Collaborate with AWS, customer teams, and other vendors.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Continuously optimize system performance, cost, and reliability.

Skills

AWS Cloud

CI/CD

Linux Bash

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Security best practices

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

CloudWatch

Job description

SBS partners with Amazon Web Services to staff senior engineers who blend application development with cloud and DevOps on a high-visibility federal program. You will own services end-to-end—from coding to deployment, monitoring, and production operations.

This role requires a current TS/SCI with CI Polygraph and is staffed onsite at Fort Meade, MD. You will collaborate with AWS Professional Services and the customer teams where uptime, performance, and security matter.