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Posted Apr 17, 2026

Principal Cloud Architect, AWS

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Job Description: • Cloud strategy & target-state architecture: Define the multi-year AWS platform strategy, principles, and “golden paths” for teams to build on. • Security & compliance architecture: Own cloud security posture and compliance-by-design for HIPAA and audit readiness (e.g., SOC 2, HITRUST). • AWS landing zone & governance: Design and operate a multi-account AWS environment (Control Tower/Organizations), including guardrails, identity, network segmentation, and centralized logging. • Reliability & operational excellence: Set SRE-aligned practices for observability, incident response, disaster recovery, and operational readiness. • Platform enablement: Create reusable Infrastructure-as-Code modules, templates, and reference architectures to accelerate safe delivery across teams. • FinOps & cost governance: Implement cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, and optimization practices that improve visibility and reduce total cost of ownership. Requirements: • 10+ years designing and delivering cloud solutions, with deep hands-on AWS experience running production workloads. • Experience with healthcare interoperability standards and integrations (FHIR, HL7) and/or healthcare data platforms. • Track record architecting secure, highly available, audit-ready systems in regulated industries (healthcare strongly preferred). • Strong experience with AWS multi-account governance (Control Tower/Organizations); deep VPC/networking fundamentals (segmentation, routing, secure connectivity such as VPN/Direct Connect). • Strong DevSecOps/IaC + CI/CD experience (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK; GitHub Actions preferred) and ability to set standards teams actually adopt. • Experience with containers/orchestration and serverless patterns. • Expertise in AWS security primitives and tooling (IAM/least privilege, KMS, secrets, logging/monitoring; Security Hub/GuardDuty/Config/CloudTrail; zero trust concepts). • Exceptional communication: can align stakeholders and explain trade-offs clearly. • Keeps current on emerging cloud and AI advancements and translates them into pragmatic improvements in architecture, operations, and delivery. Benefits: • Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development
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