AWS Cloud Engineer - Software Engineering - Top Secret Clearance

Join our Deloitte AI & Engineering team to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work You'll Do

As a Project Software Engineer II on the HCI team, you will join the infrastructure team supporting a new unified importer identity and onboarding platform - providing full visibility across every importer entity and individual applying on its behalf, all running on AWS.

You'll design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure for identity verification, biometric matching, and ACE Portal integration, working alongside developers, identity/policy specialists, and stakeholders through Release 1, Release 2, and ongoing O&M. You will work on core AWS infrastructure supporting a mobile identity-verification app, Salesforce orchestration, and ACE Portal integration, as well as biometric/identity services, including hosting and scaling Iprove (facial recognition/liveness) within AWS environment. In addition, integration infrastructure connecting to ATS/NVC (vetting), Salesforce, and ACE. Environments supporting Release 1 (Year 1 launch) and Release 2 running in parallel with steady-state O&M. Security infrastructure supporting the ATO process - access controls, audit logging, encryption for a system handling PII and biometric data. Scheduling/appointment infrastructure for background check and fingerprinting workflows, if in scope.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines across two concurrent release tracks. Configure networking, IAM, and security groups per federal requirements
• Stand up and scale compute for biometric/ML workloads under real onboarding volume
• Implement monitoring/logging/alerting (CloudWatch) to support O&M
• Support integration between AWS-hosted services, Salesforce, ATS/NVC, and ACE
• Support ATO documentation and audits (access control evidence, data flow diagrams, encryption, vulnerability scanning)
• Collaborate with identity/policy stakeholders on credentialing infrastructure. Support patching, tuning, and capacity planning as the platform scales

A successful candidate would possess:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure offering provides specialized engineering capabilities to design, implement, manage, and operate hybrid cloud environments, modernize networks and AI infrastructure from the core to the edge, and incubate new infrastructure and device services to help clients stay ahead with the latest technology advances.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Active Top Secret clearance
• 3+ years of experience building/operating production AWS infrastructure.
• 3+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
• 3+ years of experience working with AWS core services: VPC, IAM, EC2/ECS/Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch.
• 3+ years of experience integrating with third-party or legacy government systems, such as federal security/compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, ATO).
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tooling and automated deployment.

Preferred:

• 2+ years of experience with identity verification, biometric, or credentialing systems
• 2+ years of experience with Salesforce integration patterns
• 2+ years of experience with CBP, DHS, or other federal law-enforcement systems
• 2+ years of experience supporting systems through an ATO process
• AWS certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty)

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $88,600 to $147,600.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.