Sr. DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Compassion International, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

generous paid time off

403(b) retirement fund 10%

excellent healthcare coverage

free short-term professional counsel

Job summary

Compassion International, Inc. seeks an AWS expert to manage and mature our AWS platform, mentoring internal customers to maximize value from AWS through DevOps practices.

You will join a team of AWS staff handling security, governance, and scalable architecture, including Landing Zone Accelerator and advanced networking. This role emphasizes automation, IaC, and proactive problem solving.

Qualifications

• AWS production experience
• Deep understanding of AWS lifecycle management incl. security, governance, compliance
• Hands-on experience with Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA)
• Experience with AWS Lattice and advanced networking
• Experience integrating AI/ML into AWS platform engineering
• Strong automation skills with IaC, pipelines and scripting
• History of migrating complex workloads to AWS
• Experience designing/operating workloads in Kubernetes and serverless
• Strong Python development skills for tooling and Lambdas

Responsibilities

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Acts as an advocate to raise awareness of needs of children.
• Commits to protecting children in decisions and activities.
• Abides by Compassion's Code of Conduct and Child Protection.
• Improves integration of infrastructure builds with deployment processes.
• Troubleshoots complex IT problems and provides guidance.
• Designs and evaluates large automation scripts and systems.
• Researches new scalable technologies.
• Coaches and may oversee other professionals in business analysis.

Skills

AWS production

Cloud Operations

Landing Zone Accelerator

AWS Lattice

AI/ML platform

Automation

Workload migration

Kubernetes

Python

Job description

The expected salary range for this position is $123,240.00 - $144,797.60. Employees in specific high cost of labor locations in the United States (such as San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) may qualify for a geographic differential. Compassion International is not responsible for third parties who omit this information when copying and re-posting job openings.

Compassion is looking for a DevOps AWS expert who is passionate about making an eternal difference utilizing technology. We need someone who can join our other AWS staff in managing and maturing our AWS platform, while still mentoring our internal customers to pursue ever increasing value from AWS utilizing strong DevOps practices!

What will you do?

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion's ministry in prayer.
• Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children.
• Understands Christ's mandate to protect children.
• Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry.
• Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion's Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct.
• Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion's internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
• Matures DevOps disciplines and champions the lean agile mindset for major initiatives regarding issues such as Test Driven Development, flow, and systems thinking.
• Continually improves integration of complex infrastructure builds with application deployment processes across major projects and systems.
• Troubleshoots complicated technical problems relating to information systems, providing insight and guidance to other specialists.
• Analyzes, designs and evaluates large automation scripts and systems.
• Researches new technologies that will be efficient, effective, and highly scalable.
• Coaches and provides expertise, and may oversee the work of other professionals and support staff in the business analysis discipline.

What do you bring?

• AWS production experience - Extensive experience operating and optimizing AWS environments at scale
• Cloud Operations - Deep understanding of AWS Cloud Operations life cycle management including security, governance, compliance, and disaster recovery models
• Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) - Hands-on experience implementing and operating AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA), including governance, multi-account architecture, security controls, and automation patterns
• AWS Lattice & advanced networking - Experience designing and operating service-to-service communication using AWS Application Networking (AWS Lattice), including secure connectivity, traffic routing, service mesh patterns, cross-account communication and hybrid networking.
• AI/ML platform engineering - Experience driving innovation by integrating AI/ML capabilities into AWS platform engineering, including designing and maintaining foundational services.
• Skilled at leveraging AI to enhance operational efficiency, accelerate delivery workflows, and improve platform reliability.
• Automation expertise - Strong automation skills, eliminating manual work whenever possible, e.g., Infrastructure as Code, pipelines, and operational scripting
• Workload migration - History of migrating complex workloads onto AWS
• Kubernetes & Serverless - Ability to design, build, and operate workloads in Kubernetes and AWS serverless architectures
• Python engineering - Strong Python development skills for operational tooling, automation scripts, and AWS Lambda functions

Why work here?

The mission:

Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus' name.

Our benefits:

• Receive generous paid time off
• 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary
• excellent healthcare coverage
• free short-term professional counseling
• and more.

Spiritual growth:

Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.

#LI-SP1 #LI-Remote Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name

Its a mission that drives us because the need is desperate. Ten percent of the world lives on $1.90 a day or less. Our hearts break for the millions of children who suffer from lack of resources, but we rejoice because there is hope. We at Compassion know that the transformative power of Christ's love is not bound by nationality or economic status. Unified by this conviction, our increasingly diverse staff uses our talents and experience to serve more than two million children in 25 countries. We're excited for you to join our ministry!