Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Migrations & Modernization (TS/SCI)

Gridiron IT; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

HSA

401(k)

Job summary

Gridiron IT seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Developer in the Washington, DC area to lead cloud migrations and modernization efforts. The role focuses on hands-on AWS engineering, microservices, containers, serverless, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code to advance client cloud platforms.

You will design, implement, and optimize AWS environments, mentor teams, and help establish security and automation standards across projects.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance is required.
• Hands-on AWS engineering experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud migrations including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecting.
• Modernize applications via microservices, containerization, and serverless architectures.
• Design and manage AWS environments using EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and CloudFormation/CDK.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Terraform, AWS CDK, CodePipeline, and related tools.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge transfer to customer teams.
• Establish cloud best practices, automation, security, and operational standards.

Skills

AWS infra

Microservices

Containers

Serverless

CI/CD

IaC

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

AWS CDK

CodePipeline

CloudFormation

Job description

Gridiron IT seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Developer in the Washington, DC area to lead cloud migrations and modernization efforts. The role focuses on hands-on AWS engineering, microservices, containers, serverless, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code to advance client cloud platforms.

You will design, implement, and optimize AWS environments, mentor teams, and help establish security and automation standards across projects.