Senior AWS Platform Engineer — HIPAA & Multi-Account

Three Pillars Recruiting; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Three Pillars Recruiting is seeking a Senior AWS Systems Administrator to own the AWS environment end to end, including production, staging, and audit trails. The role requires PHI handling within HIPAA boundaries, encryption at rest and in transit, and secure connectivity for partners.

You will partner closely with engineering on infrastructure decisions, ensure the running system matches designs, and own backups, DR readiness, and identity/workforce provisioning.

Qualifications

• Seven+ years administering production AWS environments, with ownership of outcomes.
• Experience with HIPAA-compliant architectures in cloud environments.
• Strong IAM, identity federation, and access-control design.

Responsibilities

• Own AWS accounts and org configuration, including landing zone and guardrails.
• Design and maintain secure cross-org tunneling for PHI and HIPAA-compliant data flows.
• Manage compute, DB services, and data infrastructure, including backups and DR drills.
• Oversee Route 53, ACM certificates, and DNS routing for environments.
• Lead infrastructure as code pipelines and monitoring/alerting frameworks.

Skills

AWS administration

VPC & Transit Gateway

HIPAA compliance

Aurora PostgreSQL & RDS

IAM & federation

Route 53 & DNS

Entra ID & Microsoft 365

Linux administration

IaC (CDK/Terraform)

Monitoring & observability

On-call discipline

Education

Four year college degree

Tools

AWS CDK

Terraform

CloudWatch

Job description

Three Pillars Recruiting is seeking a Senior AWS Systems Administrator to own the AWS environment end to end, including production, staging, and audit trails. The role requires PHI handling within HIPAA boundaries, encryption at rest and in transit, and secure connectivity for partners.

You will partner closely with engineering on infrastructure decisions, ensure the running system matches designs, and own backups, DR readiness, and identity/workforce provisioning.