AWS Sr. Cloud Architect

Summit Human Capital•Richmond, VA

About The Position

Summit Human Capital is seeking a highly motivated Senior AWS Cloud Architect to support our client in the healthcare technology sector serving high-volume healthcare plan providers. This position has the exciting opportunity to drive cloud infrastructure design, modernization, and compliance within a regulated enterprise environment.

Requirements

7+ years of hands-on AWS architecture and engineering experience
Strong experience designing and implementing solutions on AWS
Python development experience
Experience with modernization initiatives and cloud migration/refactoring efforts
Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or similar tooling
Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker, ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes
Strong understanding of networking, IAM, security, observability, and operational excellence
Experience in healthcare/HIPAA or health-related regulated environments

Nice To Haves

AWS certifications strongly preferred, especially AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
Product engineering or software development background strongly preferred
Exposure to AI/GenAI services such as Amazon Bedrock is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior member of the Cloud Center of Excellence and contribute to cloud infrastructure design and maturation
Advise product development and engineering teams on cloud architecture, delivery, modernization, DevOps, observability, and compliance
Build, refactor, and maintain Terraform and other artifacts to implement approved cloud designs
Guide infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD implementation efforts across engineering teams
Support security compliance by design within regulated enterprise and HIPAA/healthcare environments
Collaborate with product engineering and software development teams to modernize platforms and applications