Remote AWS Platform Engineer & DevOps Lead

Compassion International; United States; Remote; USD 126,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

403(b) retirement contribution

Healthcare coverage

Counseling services

More benefits

Job summary

Compassion International is seeking an AWS platform expert who is passionate about using technology to make an eternal difference. You will join our AWS team to manage and mature our AWS platform, while mentoring internal customers to extract greater value from AWS through strong DevOps practices.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable cloud solutions, cross-functional leadership, and advancing automation and agile delivery across major projects and systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive AWS production experience.
• Deep understanding of AWS Cloud Operations life cycle management including security, governance, compliance, and disaster recovery models.
• Hands-on experience implementing and operating AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA).
• Experience designing and operating service-to-service communication using AWS Lattice, including cross-account and hybrid networking.
• Experience driving AI/ML capabilities into AWS platform engineering for efficiency and reliability.
• Extensive DevOps culture and practices as a fundamental delivery approach.
• Strong automation skills (IaC, pipelines, operational scripting).
• History of migrating complex workloads onto AWS.
• Kubernetes and AWS Serverless architectures knowledge.
• Python development for tooling and Lambda functions.
• Cross-functional leadership with strong communication and collaboration.
• Ability to partner with release/deployment teams for best practices.
• Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, Kanban.
• Experience leveraging AI for personal productivity and rapid information synthesis.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ; acts as a Christ-like witness.
• Advocates for children’s needs and upholds child protection in decision-making.
• Matures DevOps disciplines and champions lean agile mindset for major initiatives.
• Improves integration of complex infrastructure with deployment processes across projects.
• Troubleshoots technical problems and provides guidance to other specialists.
• Analyzes, designs and evaluates large automation scripts and systems.
• Researches new technologies that are efficient, effective, and scalable.
• Coaches and provides expertise, may oversee work of others in business analysis.

Skills

AWS production experience

Cloud Operations

Landing Zone Accelerator

AWS Lattice

AI/ML platform engineering

Devops Culture

Automation expertise

Workload migration

Kubernetes

Python engineering

Cross-functional leadership

Release & operations collaboration

Agile delivery

AI-driven personal effectiveness

Self-directed learning

Job description

Compassion International is seeking an AWS platform expert who is passionate about using technology to make an eternal difference. You will join our AWS team to manage and mature our AWS platform, while mentoring internal customers to extract greater value from AWS through strong DevOps practices.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable cloud solutions, cross-functional leadership, and advancing automation and agile delivery across major projects and systems.