Senior Cloud Engineer, AWS

Job overview

The Senior Cloud Engineer, AWS role is onsite in Richmond, VA. The posting states an hourly pay range of $75–$85. The engineer supports a banking client modernizing applications, migrating workloads, and introducing agentic AI capabilities. The role provides technical leadership across AWS architecture, platform engineering, migration, and operations. It establishes secure, resilient, and cost-conscious cloud practices while helping customer engineers build capability and assume ownership of the environment.

What you'll do

• Provide architectural leadership across AWS platform engineering, workload modernization, migration, and operations
• work with the implementation partner on knowledge transfer and transition to customer ownership
• design and govern cloud networking, shared services, infrastructure, resiliency, and integration patterns
• establish standards for security, identity, observability, automation, and cost optimization
• support agentic solutions using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and related AWS services
• coach customer engineers
• collaborate with information security, infrastructure, architecture, and business product teams
• resolve complex cross-team issues.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior aws cloud engineer

richmond va

summit human capital

$75–$85/hr

aws

cloud architecture

terraform

cloudformation

banking

agentic ai

amazon bedrock agentcore

platform engineering

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

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

Why this role

The posting seeks 8–12 years of cloud, architecture, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience and at least five years of hands-on AWS experience. Banking or other regulated-industry experience and AWS certifications are desired.

About the employer

Ambe Healthcare Staffing is hiring for this role. Industry: Human Resources Consulting Services. Sector: 54.