AWS Systems Engineer

## AWS Systems Engineer Apply locations:
US - DC, Washington time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
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** Job Family:
** Systems Engineering
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* Travel Required:

** Up to 10%
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* 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, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, 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…