AWS DevOps Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 13 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High-value position focused on cybersecurity within AWS, providing significant professional growth opportunities in a reputable government contracting firm.
- Salary range: $140,000 to $160,000/year
- Focus on high-demand cybersecurity sector
- Significant opportunities for professional growth
- Engagement in high-stakes, impactful projects
Pros
- Competitive salary range of $140,000 to $160,000/year in a high-demand field
- Focus on cybersecurity and AWS skills aligns with market needs
- Opportunities for advancement within a recognized government contractor
Cons
- US citizenship requirement limits candidate pool
- Role may involve high-stress scenarios due to nature of cyber work
- On-call responsibilities may disrupt work-life balance
Who it's for
Senior • Remote/On-site
Good fit
- Experienced cybersecurity specialists
- AWS professionals focused on security practices
- Candidates wanting to engage in governmental security projects
Not recommended for
- Entry-level applicants without required background
- Those unable to meet citizenship requirements
- Individuals uncomfortable in high-pressure scenarios
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Overview
**Due to certain contracts and nature of the work, US Citizenship is required."
Overview of the Role:
We are seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to develop, operate, and continuously improve our cloud-based, multi-tenant technology stack and front-end platform that underpin our comprehensive managed cybersecurity services – and serve as the core of our brand new 24x7x365 Security Operations Center (SOC). In this role, you will engineer seamless integrations with a multitude of client-owned technologies and data sets, ensuring effective ETL processes and data normalization to optimize our platform’s performance and reliability. As a key member of our Cyber Engineering team at a medium to large-sized government contracting firm, you will report to the Director of Cyber Engineering. In addition to leveraging your deep technical expertise to drive the development and evolution of our managed service portfolio, you will collaborate with a dynamic team of 3-5 engineers, consistently pushing the boundaries of innovation in cybersecurity.
Responsibilities
The AWS DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building and supporting a new multi-tenant managed detection and response (MDR) platform in AWS from the ground up.
Primary responsibilities include using AWS services to:
- Develop API calls to extract security events and relevant contextual data from security tools such as CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, SentinelOne, and Splunk.
- Ingest, transform, enrich, and normalize streaming security event data.
- Store normalized data in a time series database and enriched data in a data lake.
- Build dashboards and correlated queries used by SOC incident response analysts.
- Develop a web application for CRUD operations to manage customer profiles and configuration parameters.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Using Terraform or CloudFormation to provision AWS infrastructure.
- Using AWS CI/CD Code* services (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline).
- Documenting processes, data transformations and flows.
- Future 24x7 on-call production support rotation.
- Commitment to following AWS cloud security and high availability best practices.
Qualifications
- 3+ years working in AWS.
- S. Citizenship is required.
- Deep understanding of AWS services and functionalities.
- Experience developing large data pipelines and ETL processes on large datasets using Kinesis or Data Firehose and Glue.
- Strong Python scripting skills.
- Expertise in using Lambda and Step Functions to build distributed applications, automate processes, and orchestrate microservices.
- Full stack web development.
- Proficiency in using Terraform or CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Knowledge of AWS Code* services or experience with Git, Jenkins, or equivalent CI/CD tools.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Communication and collaboration skills.
- 3+ years working in AWS.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in AWS GovCloud and/or FedRAMP compliance.
- Background or strong interest in cybersecurity.
- Expertise using Security Lake, Timestream, QuickSight, Athena, OpenSearch, Amplify or Elastic Beanstalk AWS services.
Salary: $140,000 - $160,000
Additional benefits include:
- Paid Time Off & Holiday Pay
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Disability, Life Insurance, and AD&D
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-Tax 401K and/or After-Tax Roth IRA (with employer matching contribution)
- Tuition and Technical Training Reimbursement
- Exercise Reimbursement
- Computer Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
Working at Edgewater Federal Solutions:
Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services, and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2024.
Edgewater Federal Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It has been and continues to be our policy to provide equal employment to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status and/or other status protected by applicable law.
