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Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Cloud Applications)

Clearwater, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 May 2026

About the role

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Senior Systems Engineer (Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Applications)
Location: Remote
Department: Veterans Affairs (VA)
Type: Full Time
Min. Experience: Experienced
Security Clearance Level: Public Trust (MBI)
If you have previously applied to Syms Strategic Group (SSG), there is no need to reapply. Applications are still under review.

Military Veterans are highly encouraged to apply!
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Support and modernize healthcare transaction processing and back-end data platforms
Understand how modern applications leverage AWS-managed services and event-driven architectures to process, transform, and deliver healthcare data reliably and securely
Design, build, and maintain Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces (RESTful APIs) and backend services that retrieve, transform, and serve healthcare Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and transactional data
Build and integrate cloud-native application services within an AWS-hosted environment
Design and implement event-driven and asynchronous workflows using AWS-managed services and messaging patterns
Integrate with internal platform APIs, EDI processing pipelines, and cloud-based data services to deliver line and historical transaction data reliably and efficiently
Develop application integrations leveraging AWS services such as SQS, SNS, Lambda, S3, EventBridge, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and ECS/EKS
Write clean, testable, and well-documented code and participate actively in peer code views
Perform unit and integration testing across backend services and API layer
Apply and promote modern software engineering best practices within an Agile development environment
Use Git/GitHub for version control, branching strategies, pull requests, and collaborative development

Required Skills and Experience

Experience with back-end development using languages such as .Net/C#, Go, Python, Java, or NodeJS
A demonstrated understanding of AWS-native application patterns and cloud integrations
8+ years of software development experience, specifically with back-end engineering
Experience developing cloud-native applications within AWS environments
Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs in healthcare, enterprise, or distributed-system environments
Proven experience building back-end services that process and deliver structured healthcare or EDI data
Experience working with asynchronous messaging, event-driven systems, or distributed application workflows
Hands-on experience developing applications that interact with AWS services such as SQS, SNS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, EventBridge, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, and CloudWatch
Experience designing cloud-native APIs and distributed application interactions
Experience building applications that consume and transform structured data formats including JSON, XML, and EDI transactions
Experience working with healthcare EDI data formats and transaction processing workflows
An understanding of distributed-system concepts such as retries and idempotency, asynchronous processing, fault tolerance, and service resiliency
Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks (JUnit, xUnit, Jest, pytest, or equivalent)
Proficiency with Git and GitHub collaborative development practices
An ability to evaluate when AI-assisted code generation is appropriate and when manual engineering judgment, valida