Senior AWS Platform Engineer

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.