Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Naphcare, Inc.•Vestavia Hills, AL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

NaphCare is hiring a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join our team on-site at our Corporate Headquarters located in Birmingham, AL. We are modernizing a legacy .NET Framework MVC 5 application to .NET 8+ running in Linux containers, deployed across AWS-hosted and on-premises environments. The Senior AWS Cloud Engineer will provide expertise to plan, design, implement, and support the cloud-based IT Infrastructure service delivery function. Consistent development and documentation for cloud integrations and technical standards for deployments and systems within the enterprise is essential to our IT team’s growth and scalability. The successful candidate will also engage in governance initiatives encompassing domain oversight, technology standards, budget, and cost control. NaphCare is a family owned, healthcare technology company that has been delivering high quality healthcare to correctional facilities across the nation for over 35 years. Come join our team of over 6000 employees and growing! NaphCare pays well, offers outstanding benefits, and has an incredibly engaged corporate support team to make sure you have what you need to be truly excellent at what you do. NaphCare partners with correctional facilities to provide proactive, patient-focused healthcare. We support your growth and internal promotion. Once hired, we encourage our employees to continue to seek opportunities for advancement and leadership. Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran

Requirements

C# / .NET 8+ — ASP.NET Core MVC or Web API, dependency injection (constructor injection, service registration, decorator patterns), NuGet package development
AWS — Hands-on experience building and deploying AWS-native .NET applications
AWS Services Experience — ECR, ECS, Fargate, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, RDS with SQL Server, EC2 ALB/ASG/etc., VPC/Networking/etc., and IAM. Hands-on, not just certifications.
Containers — Docker/Podman, docker-compose, multi-container architectures, container image builds, debugging container startup and networking issues
Terraform — AWS provider, state management, modules
GitHub — Actions workflows, repository administration, branch policies, PR workflows
SQL Server — Existing application database. Must be comfortable with schema, queries, and migration concerns.
Security mindset — Experience in HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP, or similarly regulated environments where security decisions are audited, not optional
Linux — Comfortable enough to SSH into a server, read logs, inspect running containers, and follow documentation to debug provisioning issues. Not expecting a Linux sysadmin.

Responsibilities

Design and implement AWS-native .NET applications with SOA principles
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions — image builds, Terraform deployments, automated testing
Write Terraform for IAM roles, policies, SSM parameters, and infrastructure provisioning
Deploy containerized workloads to Docker/Podman (on-premises) and AWS Fargate/Lambda (cloud)
Collaborate with network admins and customer IT teams on firewall rules, VPN connectivity, and DNS configuration for hybrid deployments
Work within HIPAA compliance requirements — encryption at rest, least-privilege IAM, audit logging, credential protection