Senior Platform Engineer — AWS, CI/CD & Cloud Automation

ChristianTech; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Remote Work

Gym Membership

Mental Wellness Budget

4 Day Work Week

Job summary

Planning Center is seeking a Remote Platform Engineer to help maintain and grow production infrastructure on AWS. You’ll lead design and rollout of scalable cloud services, mentor peers, and own key pieces of our platform stack.

The role is fully remote in the United States, requires 5+ years in platform engineering, and offers a $200,000–$235,000 salary with strong benefits and a focus on reliability and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure on AWS.
• Proven ability to lead infrastructure projects from design through rollout and launch.
• Expertise in distributed systems, deployment orchestration, and failure detection/handling.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Elastic Container Service, containers, and workload scheduling.
• Strong track record in reliability, incident response, and building maintainable, debuggable systems.

Responsibilities

• Handle infrastructure work across a growing scope — from hand-picked, low-urgency familiarization tasks toward independently managing significant components such as container orchestration, database performance tuning, and cloud-service optimization.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues with autonomy, seeking guidance on necessary changes and, in time, on architecture decisions.
• Implement and troubleshoot scalable, resilient cloud architectures using AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, and SNS.
• Engage in infrastructure-as-code projects and play an active role in CI/CD pipeline management, ensuring smooth, efficient deployments.
• Analyze and optimize cost and performance, balancing performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Grow in alignment with company infrastructure patterns and best practices.
• Engage in and help refine the team's collaborative processes.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and facilitate learning, sharing knowledge through tech talks and documentation.
• Proactively identify and implement infrastructure improvements, such as automating manual processes or enhancing security.
• Consistently ask questions and provide feedback to teammates that demonstrate an effort to understand their work — growing toward feedback that is high-quality and actionable.
• Actively seek feedback and act on it constructively, continuously enhancing their technical and collaborative skills.
• Participate in on-call rotation, starting as a secondary observer and growing into a full participant.
• Proactively communicate your own needs and the needs of the work you're responsible for.

Skills

AWS

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Leadership

Reliability

Tools

AWS ECS

Lambda

DynamoDB

SQS

SNS

Job description

Planning Center is seeking a Remote Platform Engineer to help maintain and grow production infrastructure on AWS. You’ll lead design and rollout of scalable cloud services, mentor peers, and own key pieces of our platform stack.

The role is fully remote in the United States, requires 5+ years in platform engineering, and offers a $200,000–$235,000 salary with strong benefits and a focus on reliability and cost optimization.