Senior Systems Engineer; AWS Cloud

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Senior Systems Engineer (Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Applications).

Location:

Remote. Department:
Veterans Affairs (VA). Type:
Full Time.

Minimum Experience:

Experienced. Security Clearance Level: Public Trust (MBI).

• Support and modernize healthcare transaction processing and back-end data platforms
• Understand how modern applications leverage AWS-managed services and event-driven architectures to process, transform, and deliver healthcare data reliably and securely
• Design, build, and maintain Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces (RESTful APIs) and backend services that retrieve, transform, and serve healthcare Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and transactional data
• Build and integrate cloud-native application services within an AWS-hosted environment
• Design and implement event-driven and asynchronous workflows using AWS-managed services and messaging patterns
• Integrate with internal platform APIs, EDI processing pipelines, and cloud-based data services to deliver line and historical transaction data reliably and efficiently
• Develop application integrations leveraging AWS services such as SQS, SNS, Lambda, S3, Event Bridge, API Gateway, Dynamo
  
  DB, and ECS/EKS
• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code and participate actively in peer code views
• Perform unit and integration testing across backend services and API layer
• Apply and promote modern software engineering best practices within an Agile development environment
• Use Git/Git Hub for version control, branching strategies, pull requests, and collaborative development

• Experience with back-end development using languages such as .Net/C#, Go, Python, Java, or NodeJS
• A demonstrated understanding of AWS-native application patterns and cloud integrations
• 8+ years of software development experience, specifically with back-end engineering
• Experience developing cloud-native applications within AWS environments
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs in healthcare, enterprise, or distributed-system environments
• Proven experience building back-end services that process and deliver structured healthcare or EDI data
• Experience working with asynchronous messaging, event-driven systems, or distributed application workflows
• Hands-on experience developing applications that interact with AWS services such as SQS, SNS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, Event Bridge, Dynamo
  
  DB, ECS/EKS, and Cloud Watch
• Experience designing cloud-native APIs and distributed application interactions
• Experience building applications that consume and transform structured data formats including JSON, XML, and EDI transactions
• Experience working with healthcare EDI data formats and transaction processing workflows
• An understanding of distributed-system concepts such as retries and idempotency, asynchronous processing, fault tolerance, and service resiliency
• Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks (JUnit, xUnit, Jest, pytest, or equivalent)
• Proficiency with Git and Git Hub collaborative development practices
• An ability to evaluate when AI-assisted code generation is appropriate and when manual engineering judgment, validation, security review, or deeper analysis is required
• An understanding of the limitations, risks, and verification requirements associated with AI-generated code and technical outputs, particularly in regulated healthcare-related environments
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools responsibly within professional engineering workflows
• The ability to evaluate, validate, test, and refine AI-generated code and technical outputs using sound engineering judgment
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, platform, Dev Sec Ops , and business teams
• The ability to work independently and effectively within a distributed engineering organization
• Strong attention to detail, especially around healthcare data accuracy and fidelity
• Experience participating in peer code reviews and providing constructive technical feedback
• Experience working within Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or…