Senior AWS Application Engineer

Position: Senior AWS Application Engineer

Client Location: Washington D.C.

Work Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-Time Employment (FTE) on client W2

Referral: Supplier will receive % of Referral amount

Duration: Long term

Salary: $$/month on Client W2

Active DoD Secret clearance (OR) must be eligible to obtain a Secret clearance.

Position Summary:

• The initial implementation will focus on AWS environments, but the long-term roadmap includes multi-cloud extensibility, including the ability to ingest and normalize data from Azure, Google Cloud, hybrid environments, and other enterprise data sources.
• The ideal candidate is a strong AWS engineer who can lead implementation, coordinate with government stakeholders, build dashboards and data ingestion workflows, support containerization, and help scale an MVP into a repeatable cloud governance capability.
• This is a hands-on delivery role, not just an advisory or architecture position. The candidate should be comfortable building, documenting, troubleshooting, and coordinating across technical, cybersecurity, and program teams.

Duties:

• Lead day-to-day technical implementation of an AWS-based cloud governance and gamification MVP.
• Design and implement cloud data ingestion, scoring, dashboarding, and reporting workflows.
• Coordinate with DoD stakeholders, system owners, cybersecurity teams, and program leadership.
• Support MVP implementation for initial DoD systems and help scale the solution to additional systems over time.
• Develop dashboards and reporting views for technical users, program stakeholders, and leadership.
• Support scoring models for cloud maturity, security posture, cost optimization, operational excellence, resilience, RMF/ATO readiness, and modernization progress.
• Work with Cyber/RMF/ATO support personnel to ensure the solution aligns with security, auditability, authorization, and compliance needs.
• Support AWS architecture, implementation, and integration using services such as S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, IAM, KMS, ECS/Fargate, Athena/Glue, QuickSight, or similar services.
• Help containerize and package the capability so it can be deployed and expanded across multiple systems.
• Design the solution with future multi-cloud extensibility in mind, including future ingestion from Azure, Google Cloud, hybrid platforms, and non-cloud data sources.
• Support API-based integrations, normalized data models, and reusable ingestion patterns.
• Develop technical documentation, onboarding guides, deployment notes, and implementation playbooks.
• Manage implementation backlog, milestones, risks, dependencies, and technical blockers.
• Participate in stakeholder meetings, technical reviews, demos, and user acceptance testing.
• Provide clear written and verbal updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• 10-12 years of experience in AWS cloud engineering, cloud implementation, DevOps, platform engineering, or application modernization.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, or supporting AWS-based solutions.
• Experience supporting federal, DoD, or other government customers.
• Strong understanding of cloud governance, security, logging, monitoring, tagging, automation, and operational best practices.
• Experience with dashboards, metrics, reporting, data pipelines, APIs, or scoring models.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery, backlog management, sprint planning, and stakeholder coordination.
• Ability to lead implementation activities independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical progress, risks, and dependencies into leadership-level updates.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certification such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS SysOps Administrator, AWS Developer, AWS Security Specialty, or AWS DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud.
• Familiarity with Azure or Google Cloud, especially cloud monitoring, security, cost, tagging, inventory, or compliance data sources.
• Experience designing multi-cloud or cloud-agnostic data ingestion patterns.
• Experience with RMF, ATO, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, CMMC, or DoD cybersecurity requirements.
• Experience with Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or AWS Fargate.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with dashboarding or reporting tools such as Amazon QuickSight, Grafana, Power BI, or similar.
• Experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, PowerShell, Bash, or other scripting languages.
• Experience with API integrations, serverless workflows, or cloud-native application development.
• Familiarity with Cloud Center of Excellence, FinOps, DevSecOps, application modernization, or portfolio governance initiatives.

Technical Skills Desired:

• AWS GovCloud / AWS Commercial
• S3, Lambda, API Gateway
• CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub
• IAM, KMS, VPC, PrivateLink
• ECS, EKS, Fargate, Docker
• Athena, Glue, QuickSight, Grafana, or Power BI
• DynamoDB, RDS, or other cloud data stores
• Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK
• GitHub, GitLab, or CI/CD pipelines
• Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, or Bash
• REST APIs and cloud data integrations
• Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Google Cloud Logging, Google Cloud Monitoring, or Security Command Center experience is a plus

Thanks,

Ram M.

Global IT Solutions USI Inc.

Phone:   Ext. 205

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