Cloud Solutions Architect & AI Platform Engineer

ABCO MAINTENANCE INC. (BIC# 1854); Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ABCO MAINTENANCE INC. is seeking a senior Cloud Solutions Architect / Database Engineer / AI Platform Architect to design and build the cloud, database, security, API, and AI infrastructure that powers our enterprise applications.

Compensation for this role will be between $150k-$180k depending on experience. The ideal candidate will lead scalable cloud architectures, production databases, secure APIs, and AI foundations across Azure or AWS, partnering with front-end teams to deliver robust,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development, cloud engineering, database engineering, or software architecture experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing production cloud and backend architectures for enterprise applications.
• Strong expertise with C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, and RESTful API development.
• Advanced SQL Server and database engineering experience.
• Strong experience with relational data modeling, database architecture, stored procedures, indexing, query optimization, execution plans, and performance tuning.
• Experience designing databases for high-volume, production enterprise applications.
• Strong experience designing secure API and service architectures consumed by modern web applications.
• Strong understanding of API contracts, versioning, validation, error handling, documentation, and service-layer architecture.
• Extensive experience with authentication and authorization technologies including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, SSO, and RBAC.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable, secure cloud environments for enterprise applications.
• Design the backend architecture supporting web applications, internal systems, integrations, and AI-powered solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain production database environments, including schemas, tables, relationships, stored procedures, views, indexing strategies, and data-access patterns.
• Develop and optimize SQL Server databases for performance, reliability, data integrity, and security.
• Establish database standards covering data modeling, normalization, indexing, query optimization, auditing, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Design and develop secure RESTful APIs and backend services using C#, ASP.NET Core, and related .NET technologies.
• Build API and service layers that front-end developers can use without direct backend access.
• Define API contracts, request/response models, validation standards, error handling, versioning, documentation, and integration patterns.
• Implement authentication and authorization solutions using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, SSO, RBAC, and enterprise identity providers.

Skills

Cloud architecture

C# / .NET

SQL Server

REST APIs

Application security

Authentication

Azure or AWS

Enterprise integrations

Production AI architecture

AI platforms (LLMs)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

OpenAI

Job description

ABCO MAINTENANCE INC. is seeking a senior Cloud Solutions Architect / Database Engineer / AI Platform Architect to design and build the cloud, database, security, API, and AI infrastructure that powers our enterprise applications.

Compensation for this role will be between $150k-$180k depending on experience. The ideal candidate will lead scalable cloud architectures, production databases, secure APIs, and AI foundations across Azure or AWS, partnering with front-end teams to deliver robust,