Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – Federal Modernization

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

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.