Senior AWS Platform Engineer | Remote & Automation Leader

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

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.