Systems AWS Platform Engineer
$98,000–$163,000 year
RemoteUnited States or McLean, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Build and maintain a self-service application delivery platform for AWS workloads by designing reusable Jenkins shared libraries and pipeline standards. Create Terraform module stacks for ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, and IAM services, while defining YAML-based application contracts and implementing promotion workflows with drift prevention. Partner with developers, security, and operations to deliver secure golden paths and standardize build, test, deploy, and approval processes. Establish Terraform state management practices and create documentation, templates, and onboarding guides for application teams. Improve reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency across multi-account AWS environments. Obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust clearance prior to onboarding.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or additional FOUR (4) years experience in Lieu of degree
- Four (4) to Ten (10) years Platform Development experience
- Strong AWS experience, especially ECS, IAM, S3, SQS, Lambda, VPC, and CloudWatch
- 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
- Ability to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD 'PUBLIC TRUST'
- Candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse
- Active Public Trust or Suitability (preferred but treated as required per context of clearance)
Desired Qualifications
- 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 ServiceNow-based low-code applications
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