Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Cloud Applications)

About this 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 develo...