AWS Engineer

Amazon Web Services Engineer

***As required by our governmental client, this position requires U.S. Citizenship***

Cherokee Federal is seeking an AWS Engineer to design, deploy, and support secure, scalable AWS cloud solutions for a federal client. This role focuses on AWS infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD automation, cloud security, and DevOps in a regulated government environment. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of AWS experience, strong cloud engineering skills, and experience supporting federal or public sector cloud environments. Salesforce experience, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Public Sector Solutions, or MuleSoft, is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits:
Estimated Starting Salary Range for AWS Engineer: $100,000-140,000
Pay commensurate with experience.

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and other possible benefits as provided. Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

Responsibilities Include:
• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS in support of government mission requirements.
• Work with government leads and Product Owners to understand technical requirements, clarify scope, and confirm release timing for new infrastructure and enhancement requests.
• Architect and implement AWS solutions using services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, ECS/EKS, and API Gateway.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK to ensure repeatable, auditable, and version-controlled deployments.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab CI) to automate build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and related tooling to ensure system health, performance, and operational visibility.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure is secure, scalable, and maintainable, and aligned with government governance, auditability, security, and compliance expectations (e.g., FedRAMP, agency ATO requirements, NIST 800-53).
• Configure and manage networking, security groups, encryption, and identity/access controls in accordance with federal security standards.
• Support integrations between AWS-hosted systems and external platforms (e.g., APIs, middleware, third-party SaaS), confirming data integrity across systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, performance, and deployment issues; document root cause and remediation.
• Present formal and informal oral and written briefings to government managers; produce executive-ready technical summaries and decision support materials.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Experience, Education, Skills, Abilities Requested:
• Bachelor's degree with preferred study in Computer Science, Information Science, Information Systems Management, Math, Statistics, Operations Research, or Engineering and a minimum of five (5) years of experience. Seven (7) years of work experience in related field may be substituted for education.
• Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure in support of federal or public sector clients.
• Hands-on experience with core AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, ECS/EKS).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK).
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, and identity/access management in a regulated environment.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions on AWS.
• Experience working within FedRAMP, ATO, or NIST 800-53 compliance frameworks preferred.
• AWS certification (e.g., Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer) preferred.
• Salesforce experience, including with any of its products (e.g., Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Pu