Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-04
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IT/Tech
AWS, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, SRE/Site Reliability, Systems Engineer
Location: Onsite – Chantilly, VA
Clearance Requirement: U.S. Citizenship required with the ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance
Strategic Business Systems (SBS) is a National Information Technology Services company providing infrastructure design, integration, engineering, and operational support to commercial and Federal Government customers.
We have an exciting opportunity for an AWS Dev Ops Engineer to join our growing cloud engineering team in Chantilly, VA. This position will support the development, automation, deployment, and operation of secure AWS cloud environments supporting U.S. Government missions.
The AWS Dev Ops Engineer will work with SBS's COSMOS platform, which enables mission owners to rapidly onboard and deploy AWS Impact Level (IL)-4/5 workloads while meeting Federal security and compliance requirements.
This is a hands‑on engineering position for someone with a strong foundation in AWS who wants to work across cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, and cloud‑native application deployment. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working independently on technical tasks while collaborating with senior cloud architects, developers, and security engineers on larger platform initiatives.
Responsibilities- Build, deploy, configure, and maintain secure AWS cloud infrastructure supporting mission‑critical applications and services.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CDK, Cloud Formation, and/or Terraform.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate application builds, testing, infrastructure provisioning, and deployments.
- Support the deployment and operation of cloud‑native and serverless applications utilizing AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3, SQS, and other AWS services.
- Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized workloads and supporting AWS infrastructure.
- Support cloud‑hosted databases including Amazon RDS PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
- Automate common infrastructure, deployment, configuration, and operational tasks using scripting and Infrastructure as Code.
- Implement and maintain cloud monitoring, logging, and alerting utilizing AWS Cloud Watch and related services.
- Configure and support AWS IAM, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager, and other security services following least‑privilege and cloud security best practices.
- Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, networking, deployment, and cloud service issues across development and production environments.
- Work with Git‑based development workflows, including branching, pull requests, code reviews, and automated deployments.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement cloud security controls and support Federal security and compliance requirements.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
- Participate in Agile development processes, technical planning, peer reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Evaluate new AWS services, Dev Ops tools, and automation capabilities that can improve platform reliability, security, and deployment velocity.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Dev Ops, cloud engineering, systems engineering, software development, or a related technical discipline.
- Hands‑on experience deploying and supporting workloads in AWS.
- Experience with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM, API Gateway, and Cloud Watch.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar technologies.
- Experience building, maintaining, or supporting CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of Git and modern source‑control practices.
- Understanding of cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and load balancing.
- Understanding of REST APIs, databases, and modern application architectures.
- Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure and application deployment issues.
- Understanding of cloud security principles, IAM, secrets management,…
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