Senior AWS Engineer — Remote, Serverless & Cloud Leadership

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TELUS Digital seeks a Senior AWS Engineer to design, build, and operate serverless applications on AWS for enterprise clients. You will own technical delivery, write high-quality code, and define infrastructure as code while applying security, reliability, and cost controls.

Lead client engagements, mentor engineers, and help shape engineering standards across the Cloud Engineering practice. Travel ~0–25% may be required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 4+ years building/operating production apps on AWS.
• Deep hands-on AWS serverless expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, others).
• Strong Python or Node.js/TypeScript programming skills.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tooling.
• Knowledge of AWS security practices and monitoring tools.
• Excellent client-facing communication in a consulting setting.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship serverless AWS applications and APIs.
• Define infrastructure as code and secure production deployments.
• Mentor engineers and contribute reusable patterns to the practice.

Skills

AWS serverless

Python/TypeScript

APIs (REST/GraphQL)

IaC (CDK/CloudFormation/SAM/Terraform)

CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions/GitLab/C

Security best practices (IAM, KMS, etc

Monitoring/Observability (CloudWatch/X

Communication with clients

AWS certifications helpful

Travel readiness

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

SAM

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

AWS CodePipeline

API Gateway

AppSync

Lambda

DynamoDB

S3

EventBridge

SQS

SNS

Job description

TELUS Digital seeks a Senior AWS Engineer to design, build, and operate serverless applications on AWS for enterprise clients. You will own technical delivery, write high-quality code, and define infrastructure as code while applying security, reliability, and cost controls.

Lead client engagements, mentor engineers, and help shape engineering standards across the Cloud Engineering practice. Travel ~0–25% may be required.