AWS Cloud Engineer; GenAI Security Clearance

Position: AWS Cloud Engineer (GenAI) with Security Clearance
Senior AWS Cloud Engineer (Generative AI)

Location:

Springfield, VA 22150 (NGA Campus)
Clearance:
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph (REQUIRED)
Compensation: $80–$100/hr ($166K–$208K annually equivalent)
Work Type:
Full-Time | Onsite (classified environment)

Position Overview We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer with Generative AI expertise to support a mission-critical Intelligence Community modernization initiative in Springfield, VA. This role focuses on optimizing and modernizing enterprise-scale Generative AI workloads within a classified AWS environment (C2S). The selected engineer will embed with customer scrum teams and lead architecture design, performance optimization, and cloud-native system improvements.

This is a highly technical, hands-on role requiring deep AWS architecture knowledge and experience deploying and optimizing LLM-based solutions.

Required Qualifications Active TS/SCI with Polygraph (must be current) 8+ years of software engineering or cloud architecture experience 3+ years hands-on AWS production experience Experience supporting classified or IC cloud environments Strong Python proficiency

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Cloud Formation, CDK, or Terraform) Ability to work onsite in Springfield, VA Required Technical Expertise – Generative AI Enterprise-scale GenAI platform architecture and deployment LLM implementation and optimization Prompt engineering and token usage optimization Vector databases and semantic search API performance tuning (batching, caching, rate limiting) Cost tracking and workload analytics for AI systems

Experience with Lang Chain or similar frameworks AWS Services Experience Amazon Bedrock Open Search Service Cloud Watch ECS and/or EKS RDS and/or Dynamo

DB Advanced IAM policy design Responsibilities Evaluate and modernize existing GenAI architectures Design scalable, modular, cloud-native systems Implement automated health monitoring and detection systems Optimize text embedding pipelines and retrieval performance Develop reference architectures and best practices Collaborate within Agile/Scrum teams Provide technical leadership and knowledge transfer

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with AWS C2S Prior AWS Professional Services engagement experience Experience supporting Orange or National Security customers Strong customer-facing communication skills Why Join This Effort? High-visibility IC modernization initiative Cutting-edge Generative AI optimization work Long-term program stability Opportunity to influence enterprise architecture at scale If you are an experienced TS/SCI Poly AWS engineer looking to work on mission-critical AI systems, we encourage you to apply confidentially.