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AWS Systems Engineer

Cogent Infotech Corp

AWS Systems Engineer - Washington, DC - 100% Onsite - 90-95/hr - 11 month contract

Our client, a federal government agency, is seeking an AWS Systems Engineer familiar with AWS GovCloud to build applications in compliance with FedRAMP or FISMA. This project starts 2/2/2026 with the possibility of renewal after 12/31/2026.

Responsibilities:

Your duties and responsibilities include the below tasks, but are not limited to them:
  • Design and create custom build cloud applications
  • Set up and configure DevSecOps for cloud environments
  • Work cross functionally with the cloud platform team and development team to build, manage, and enable the underlying cloud infrastructure and platforms in support of a business application development project.
Requirements:
  • 10 years of overall experience in IT where at least 5 are dedicated to supporting Cloud Technologies and Application development.
  • Develop software according to software development lifecycles (SDLCs), including DevOps, Agile, Lean, or Iterative.
  • Designing, deploying, and migrating secure and maintainable systems for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments.
  • Proficient in at least one high-level programming language such as Python, PowerShell, or Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, etc.). Python 3.x data engineering with pandas, Databricks, or SPARK preferred.
  • DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation, containers, and related best practices for cloud deployment. Experience with GitLab or Azure DevOps preferred.
  • Service offerings in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and government platform experience preferred.
  • Understanding of cloud-based architectures, web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage. Experience with AWS Load Balancer.
  • Familiarity with loose coupling, stateless systems, and best practices for designing cloud-ready applications.
  • Understanding of cloud federation technologies such as SAML, Okta, OAuth, and
  • OpenID Connect and how to apply these technologies to enterprise and public-facing applications.
  • Understanding of cloud vendor cost structures and the ability to optimize solutions for cost effectiveness.
  • Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud-ready architecture.
  • Understanding of RESTful Web Services, XML, or JSON. Experience with AWS API Gateway.
  • Awareness of cloud information security risks and best practices, especially in a highly secure operating environment.
  • Familiarity with government cloud deployments (FedRAMP, FISMA, high security environments, etc.)
Preferred:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
  • Experience with direct configuration and management of AWS components, including
  • CloudTrail, CloudWatch, S3, RDS or Aurora, PostgresSQL, Lambda, Glue or MWAA (Airflow)
  • Experience with designing or implementing cloud architectures for analytics/data processing/machine learning use-cases, such as data lakes, lake formations, etc.
  • Experience with containerization as a strategy for cloud-enabling legacy applications such as Docker and Kubernetes (AWS EKS, ECS, or Fargate preferred)
  • Familiarity with the Well Architected Framework.
  • Experience with defining platform requirements.
  • Experience integrating with enterprise observability platforms such as Splunk.
  • Experience with Data Quality testing tooling (e.g., Great Expectations, Glue Data Quality)
Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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