Senior AWS Platform Engineer

compassion; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Healthcare coverage

Retirement contribution 10%

Paid time off

Counseling services

Chapels / prayer groups

Job summary

compassion is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage and mature a large-scale cloud platform on AWS, driving reliability and automation. You will collaborate across teams to improve DevOps practices, design scalable solutions, and coach others.

The role emphasizes hands-on AWS operations, multi-account governance, and ongoing learning in AI-assisted platform engineering, with remote work options and Agile methods.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience operating and optimizing AWS production environments, including governance and DR.
• Hands-on with AWS Landing Zone Accelerator and cross-account security controls.
• Experience with AWS Application Networking (Lattice) and cross-account connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Improve DevOps practices and promote lean, agile delivery with test-driven development.
• Connect infrastructure build processes with application deployment across major systems.
• Diagnose complex information systems problems and guide specialists to solutions.
• Design, assess, and improve automation scripts and systems; research scalable technologies.
• Coach colleagues and provide technical expertise across teams.

Skills

AWS operations

Automation with Python

Infrastructure as code

Kubernetes

Serverless & Lambda

Agile methods

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Landing Zone Accelerator

AWS Application Networking (Lattice)

Terraform / IaC tooling

Job description

Role overview

Manage and mature a large-scale cloud platform, helping teams deliver and operate applications through strong DevOps practices. The role combines hands‑on AWS operations and automation with technical troubleshooting, platform evolution, and coaching across teams.

Responsibilities

• Improve DevOps practices and encourage lean, agile delivery, including test‑driven development, healthy workflow, and systems thinking.
• Connect infrastructure build processes with application deployment across major systems and initiatives.
• Diagnose complex information systems problems and guide other specialists toward solutions.
• Design, assess, and improve automation scripts and systems; research scalable and effective technologies.
• Coach colleagues and provide technical expertise, with possible oversight of other professionals or support staff.
• Collaborate with release and deployment teams on operational, security, and financial practices.

Requirements

• Extensive experience operating and optimizing AWS production environments, including cloud operations, security, governance, compliance, and disaster recovery.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS Landing Zone Accelerator and its multi‑account governance, security controls, and automation patterns.
• Experience with AWS Application Networking (Lattice), service‑to‑service connectivity, routing, cross‑account communication, and hybrid networking.
• Strong automation and Python skills, including infrastructure as code, pipelines, operational tooling, and Lambda functions.
• Experience with workload migration, Kubernetes, and AWS serverless architectures.
• Ability to lead across teams, communicate effectively, apply Agile methods, and continue developing technical skills; experience using AI to improve platform engineering or personal workflows is also sought.

Nice to have

• Experience incorporating AI and machine learning capabilities into foundational cloud platform services.

Benefits and work setup

Remote work is indicated. Benefits include paid time off, healthcare coverage, a retirement contribution equal to 10% of salary, and short-term professional counseling.The organization also offers chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.