Senior AWS Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee and enhance Compassion’s AWS platform

• Guide internal clients in maximizing value from AWS through effective DevOps practices

• Advance DevOps methodologies and promote a lean agile approach for key initiatives

• Enhance the integration of intricate infrastructure constructions with application deployment processes across significant projects and systems

• Resolve complex technical issues related to information systems

• Offer insights and direction to fellow specialists

• Analyze, design, and assess large automation scripts and systems

• Investigate efficient, effective, and highly scalable technologies

• Mentor and provide expertise to professionals and support staff within the business analysis field

• Advocate for the needs of children and prioritize child protection in all decisions and activities

• Report any concerns regarding child abuse, neglect, or exploitation through Compassion’s internal reporting protocol

⛳️ Requirements

• Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ

• Exhibit a consistent witness for Jesus Christ along with a Christ-like demeanor

• Dedication to child protection and adherence to Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct

• Extensive experience in operating and optimizing AWS environments at scale

• Profound understanding of AWS Cloud Operations lifecycle management, including security, governance, compliance, and disaster recovery models

• Practical experience in implementing and managing AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA)

• Familiarity with AWS Application Networking (AWS Lattice), secure connectivity, traffic routing, service mesh patterns, cross-account communication, and hybrid networking

• Experience in integrating AI/ML capabilities into AWS platform engineering

• Extensive background in DevOps practices

• Strong automation skills, encompassing Infrastructure as Code, pipelines, and operational scripting

• Proven history of migrating complex workloads to AWS

• Capability to design, build, and manage Kubernetes and AWS serverless workloads

• Proficient in Python development

• Effective leadership, communication, collaboration, and influencing skills across functions

• Ability to collaborate with deployment/release teams on operations, security, and financial stewardship

• Solid understanding of Agile principles, Scrum, and Kanban

• Experience utilizing modern AI capabilities for enhanced productivity and decision-making

• Commitment to ongoing technical and operational learning

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off

• 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund in addition to salary

• Excellent healthcare coverage

• Complimentary short-term professional counseling

• Regular chapel services

• Prayer groups

• Department devotionals