AWS System Engineer Security Clearance

Position: AWS System Engineer with Security Clearance
AWS System Engineer
Clearance: TS/SCI

Location:

Onsite – Gaithersburg, MD or Chantilly, VA
Salary: 140K+

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as a Databricks administrator, managing workspace configuration, user roles, cluster performance, and troubleshooting.

• Support AWS infrastructure services including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Cloud Watch, and Lambda to maintain secure and scalable systems.

• Collaborate with data scientists, developers, and mission analysts to understand system requirements and translate them into effective engineering solutions.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like Cloud Formation or Terraform for consistent and repeatable deployments.

• Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives.

• Assist with system integration, security hardening, and operational readiness reviews.

• Produce and maintain system documentation in accordance with customer standards.

Basic Qualifications:

• US citizenship is required per contract.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years or prior relevant experience or Master’s with 6+ years of prior relevant experience.

• Hands-on experience administering and supporting Databricks environments in an enterprise or mission-critical setting.

• Proven experience managing cloud infrastructure in AWS, including services like EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and networking components.

• Experience developing and testing automation scripts.

• Experience documenting work instructions and configurations.

• Experience with manipulating data with Microsoft Excel, especially transforming and graphing data.

• Experience developing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, importing images and graphs.

• Familiarity with security and compliance best practices in a classified cloud environment.

• Have or is willing to obtain within 6 months Security+ CE (or similar), required for privileged user (admin) access.

• Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams and using tools like Jira and Confluence.

• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently or collaboratively in a fast-paced setting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting DoD or IC customers

• Familiarity with the IC customer mission systems and data handling standards.

• Knowledge of containerization (e.g., Docker, ECS, EKS).

• Experience with Python (Pandas, Boto3, PySpark, MLOps), Java or Scala in a data engineering context.

• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional)

• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Bash, and Bash Scripting.

• Experience with Databricks, Jupyter Notebook, Microsoft Power Query and Power Pivot.

• Strong proficiency in SQL, including advanced performance tuning, query plan analysis, and indexing strategies.

• Experience with transforming data and join/merge with other data sets sharing a common key.

• Software Architectures:
Client-Server, Microservices, Model-View-Controller.

• Cloud Exposure:
o Multi-cloud architectures: AWS, IBM, Google, Azure, and Oracle.
o Specific AWS Services:
Compute (EC2, Lambda), Storage (S3, EBS), Security, Identity & Compliance (IAM, IdAM, KMS), SQS, SNS, and Cloud Formation.
o Certifications such as AWS Dev Ops Engineer or similar.

• Knowledge of continuous integration and delivery tools:
Jenkins, Git Lab, and Docker.