Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – Federal Mission Modernization

US132 Guidehouse Digital, LLC

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 216,000

Full time

14 days+

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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.