Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

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.

NaphCare Full Time Benefits:

Prescriptions free of charge through our health plan
• Health, dental & vision insurance that starts day one!
• Low cost benefits to our employees and their families
• Employment Assistance Program (EAP) services
• 401K and Roth with company contribution that starts day one!
• Tuition Assistance
• Referral bonuses
• On-site education
• Free Continuing Education!
• Term life insurance at no cost to the employee
• Generous paid time off & paid holidays

With NaphCare, you'll play a critical role in our continuing mission to be the leading provider of quality healthcare in the correctional industry. If you want a career that will make a difference, choose the company that is different.

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

Reasonable Accommodation Statement

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.

• 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

• 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.