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
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