Senior Systems Engineer (AWS GovCloud)

Role overview Build and operate the secure cloud platform for a federal health IT monitoring pipeline. The work spans infrastructure, delivery automation, production operations, and security evidence needed to support an authorization to operate. The pipeline collects published endpoint information, runs scheduled observations, and assembles reviewable compliance evidence.

Responsibilities - Provision and maintain AWS GovCloud services, including containers, storage, networking, identity controls, and monitoring, using Terraform or comparable infrastructure as code. - Develop deployment workflows for building, scanning, versioning, and releasing container images, with traceability from results back to the relevant code and configuration versions. - Create tamper-evident logs and storage for ingestion, automated decisions, human review, evidence packages, and releases. - Manage outbound traffic, secrets, certificates, DNS, network segmentation, and integrations with published health IT endpoints while respecting source limits. - Operate monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and autoscaling to meet coverage and evidence completeness targets. - Prepare security control narratives and technical artifacts for system security documentation and independent assessment; keep runbooks and architecture materials current.

Requirements - Hands-on AWS experience with ECS or Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch. - Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, container image scanning and deployment, and production container operations. - Background in monitoring, incident response, and networking fundamentals such as TLS/PKI, DNS, and HTTP troubleshooting. - Familiarity with security controls in federal or regulated environments, such as NIST 800-53, and ability to produce technical documentation. - Ability to obtain a U.S. Public Trust.

Nice to have - Active Public Trust or Secret clearance; ATO or third-party security assessment experience. - Experience with autoscaling, large-scale outbound traffic management, secrets management, or immutable storage such as S3 Object Lock. - Knowledge of HL7 FHIR, SMART on FHIR, or health IT certification programs; AWS professional-level certification.

Benefits and work setup Part-time, one-year contract, with W2 or 1099 engagement options. The listing gives hourly ranges of $65–$76 for W2 and $75–$87 for 1099. Benefits described include health, vision, and dental coverage, retirement matching, paid time off, life insurance, and disability coverage. Applicants must live and work in an eligible U.S. state; several states and the District of Columbia are excluded. Federal security and AWS operations experience are expected at hire; health IT regulatory context is taught on the job.