Systems AWS Platform Engineer

Job Family:
Systems Engineering

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

• Build and maintain a self‑service application delivery platform for AWS workloads.
• Design reusable Jenkins shared libraries and pipeline standards.
• Create Terraform module stacks for ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, and related AWS services.
• Define the YAML‑based application contract used by application teams.
• Implement promotion workflows, approvals, drift prevention, and environment separation.
• Partner with developers, security, and operations to deliver secure golden paths.
• Design and develop end‑to‑end Jenkins Declarative and Scripted pipelines using Groovy to automate seamless code promotion from development to production environments.
• Build Terraform modules and root‑module compositions for multi‑service applications.
• Support ECS Fargate and optional AWS capabilities such as S3, SQS, Lambda, and IAM.
• Standardize build, test, deploy, and approval workflows.
• Establish Terraform state and environment management practices.
• Create documentation, templates, and onboarding guides for application teams.
• Improve reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Bachelor’s degree or four (4) years experience in lieu of a degree.
• Four (4) to ten (10) years of platform development experience.
• Strong AWS experience, especially ECS, IAM, S3, SQS, Lambda, VPC, and Cloud Watch.
• Hands‑on Terraform experience, including module design and backend/state management.
• Jenkins pipeline expertise, preferably shared libraries and multibranch pipelines.
• Experience creating reusable platform abstractions for multiple services.
• Good scripting ability in Bash or Python.
• Understanding of SDLC, deployment strategies, and release governance.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD “PUBLIC TRUST”; candidates must obtain approved adjudication prior to onboarding.
• Candidates with an active PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

• Experience designing IDP (internal developer platforms).
• Experience with Spring Boot or containerized Java services.
• Experience with approval gates, policy enforcement, and environment promotion.
• Experience with multi‑account AWS design.
• Familiarity with event‑driven architectures and asynchronous patterns.
• Experience onboarding application teams to shared tooling.
• Experience supporting Service Now‑based low‑code applications.

The annual salary range for this position is $98,000.00–$.

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits

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