Senior Cloud Engineer
Summit Human Capital · RICHMOND, VA
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- Open 47 days
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Summit Human Capital is seeking a highly motivated Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to support our client in the banking industry as they modernize applications, migrate workloads, and introduce agentic AI capabilities. This position has the exciting opportunity to provide long-term technical leadership of the AWS architecture and estate, working alongside an implementation partner during a major transformation.
The ideal candidate will meet the following criteria
Requirements
- 8–12 years of experience in cloud engineering, architecture, infrastructure, or platform engineering
- 5+ years of strong hands-on AWS experience
- Deep expertise in AWS networking, IAM, security, multi-account environments, and Landing Zone architecture
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
- Experience with ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, and event-driven architectures
- Experience designing highly available and disaster recovery architectures
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, observability, automation, and cloud operations
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and provide senior technical leadership
Desired
- Experience in banking, financial services, or another regulated industry
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification
- Experience with AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, FinOps, and cloud cost governance
Responsibilities
- Provide architectural leadership across AWS platform engineering, workload modernization, migration, and ongoing operations
- Work closely with the implementation partner to ensure effective knowledge transfer and a smooth transition to customer ownership
- Design and govern cloud networking, shared services, infrastructure, resiliency, and integration patterns
- Establish practical standards for security, identity, observability, automation, and cost optimization
- Support the deployment and management of agentic solutions using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and related AWS services
- Coach customer engineers, close cloud-engineering skill gaps, and help teams become increasingly self-sufficient
- Collaborate with Information Security, infrastructure, architecture, and business product teams
- Serve as a senior technical resource on the platform engineering team and help resolve complex cross-team issues
The hourly pay range for this position is $75 – $85, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k)/retirement plan; and other benefits in accordance with applicable laws.
Skills
- AWS
- IAM
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- ECS
- AWS Fargate
- AWS Lambda
- API Gateway
- AWS EventBridge
- Bedrock
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