Senior AWS DevOps Engineer — Remote Platform Lead

Smith Arnold Partners; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Smith Arnold Partners is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to lead and modernize our AWS-based, serverless SaaS platform in a fully remote capacity. You will own CI/CD, automation, security, and reliability across multiple teams, guiding cloud modernization and pipeline improvements.

You will collaborate with software engineers to drive architectural decisions, contribute hands-on leadership, and push for scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud solutions in a long-established,

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and operating AWS infrastructure.
• Bash scripting required; Python a big plus.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform / CloudFormation.
• Real CI/CD experience (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, or similar).
• Deep understanding of AWS services in production.
• SaaS platform experience.
• Strong automation mindset.
• Security awareness (IAM, WAF, KMS, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, etc.).
• Comfort working across multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines across multiple engineering teams.
• Design and automate AWS infrastructure using Terraform (or OpenTofu).
• Rebuild parts of the pipeline where needed.
• Push automation deeper into everything — builds, deployments, security, monitoring.
• Migrate older systems to modern cloud architectures.
• Partner directly with software engineers.
• Make technical decisions and explain the 'why' behind them.
• Improve reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Step in and solve problems instead of waiting for tickets.

Skills

AWS infrastructure

Bash scripting

Python

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Serverless AWS

Security controls

SaaS experience

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

OpenTofu

Job description

Smith Arnold Partners is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to lead and modernize our AWS-based, serverless SaaS platform in a fully remote capacity. You will own CI/CD, automation, security, and reliability across multiple teams, guiding cloud modernization and pipeline improvements.

You will collaborate with software engineers to drive architectural decisions, contribute hands-on leadership, and push for scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud solutions in a long-established,