AWS Systems Engineer

About this role

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 packa

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