Senior Cloud Engineer

Summit Human Capital • Richmond, VA

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About The Position

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.

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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)/retirement plan
• other benefits in accordance with applicable laws

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed