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Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Richmond, VA - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 75 - 85
Hourly Salary:
Posted:
17 September 2026 (6 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
15 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
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:
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.
Requirements:
- 812 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
- 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
- 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:
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
