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Senior SME

Washington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Dec 2025

About the role

Overview

Edgewater is searching for a Sr. SME to support an AWS GovCloud platform in the Cloud Architecture and Administration team. The candidate must be able to demonstrate working knowledge of supporting AWS platform. Candidate should have advanced skills in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS Code family, GitLab). The successful candidate is self-motivated, has strong analytical skills, possesses the ability to learn quickly and can handle multiple projects simultaneously.

The work will be performed onsite in Washington, DC.

Responsibilities

Candidates must be able to support the following:

Infrastructure & Automation

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK for declarative infrastructure management
CI/CD Pipeline Architecture - Designing and maintaining deployment pipelines using CodePipeline and GitLab CI
GitOps Practices - Implementing git-based workflows for infrastructure and configuration management

AWS Organization & Governance

Multi-Account Strategy - Managing AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and account vending processes
Service Control Policies (SCPs) - Implementing guardrails and organizational policies
Cross-Account Networking - Transit Gateway, VPC peering, PrivateLink, and hub-spoke architectures

Container & Orchestration Platforms

EKS/ECS Management - Building and operating container orchestration platforms with add-ons, service mesh, and cluster lifecycle management
Container Security - Image scanning, admission controllers, pod security policies/standards

Security & Compliance (GovCloud-specific)

Compliance Automation - AWS Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty integration and automated remediation
Zero Trust Architecture - Implementing identity-based networking and least privilege access patterns
Encryption & Key Management - KMS, CloudHSM, and encryption-at-rest/in-transit strategies
Automated Remediation – Leveraging AWS native services to remediate security findings with event-driven architecture

Observability & Reliability

Centralized Logging/Monitoring - CloudWatch, Cloudtrail, Splunk integration and implementation
Cost Optimization - FinOps practices, cost allocation tags, and automated rightsizing

Qualifications

All candidates must be US Citizens
At least seven years of experience in specified technical field, or four years of recent, demonstrated experience with specified emerging technology and four years of experience in a closely related technical field
Requires eight years of analytical experience
BA/BS or MA/MS in computer science, information systems, mathematics, relevant field, or equivalent experience required
Provides expert support, analysis and research into exceptionally complex problems, and processes relating to the subject matter. Serves as technical expert on executive-level project teams providing technical direction, interpretation and alternatives.
Thinks independently and demonstrates exceptional written and oral communications skills.
Apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.
Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts.
Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
Works under consultative direction toward predetermined long- range goals and objectives.
Assignments are often self-initiated.
Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.
Develops advanced technological ideas and guides their development into a final product.
Expertise is in a particular area of Information Technology (e.g., Information Systems Architecture, Telecommunications Systems Design, Architecture, Implementation, Information Systems Integration, Software Development Methodologies, Security Engineering, Communications and Network Systems Management), or a specific functional area (e.g., finance, logistics, and operations research).