Senior AWS Platform Engineer

Compassion International•USA - Colorado, CO

2d•$125,710 - $147,702•Remote

About The Position

Compassion International is seeking an AWS platform expert to manage and mature its AWS platform alongside other AWS staff, while mentoring internal customers in using AWS and strong DevOps practices to increase value. The role advances DevOps disciplines and lean agile practices, improves the integration of infrastructure builds with application deployments, troubleshoots complex information systems, evaluates automation, researches scalable technologies, and coaches professionals and support staff. The position also includes faith-based and child-protection commitments: maintaining a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and supporting Compassion’s ministry, while prioritizing child protection and following the organization’s child-protection and conduct expectations.

Requirements

Extensive experience operating and optimizing AWS production environments at scale.
Deep understanding of AWS Cloud Operations lifecycle management, including security, governance, compliance, and disaster recovery models.
Hands-on experience implementing and operating AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA), including governance, multi-account architecture, security controls, and automation patterns.
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.
Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into AWS platform engineering and designing and maintaining foundational services; ability to use AI to improve operational efficiency, delivery workflows, and platform reliability.
Extensive DevOps experience, with DevOps as a foundation for delivery.
Strong automation skills, including Infrastructure as Code, pipelines, and operational scripting, with an emphasis on eliminating manual work.
History of migrating complex workloads to AWS.
Ability to design, build, and operate workloads in Kubernetes and AWS serverless architectures.
Strong Python development skills for operational tooling, automation scripts, and AWS Lambda functions.
Effective leadership across teams, with strong communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
Ability to partner with deployment and release teams on operations, security, and financial stewardship best practices.
Firm understanding of Agile principles, Scrum, and Kanban.
Experience leveraging modern AI capabilities to improve personal productivity and decision-making through information synthesis, workflow optimization, problem solving, and continuous improvement while maintaining high-quality output.
Commitment to continuously learning and improving technical and operational capabilities.

Responsibilities

Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, serve as a consistent witness, uphold Compassion’s ministry in prayer, and interact with others with a courteous, Christ-like attitude.
Advocate for children’s needs and prioritize child protection in decisions and activities; follow Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct, report concerns, and support incident responses.
Mature DevOps disciplines and champion a lean agile mindset on major initiatives, including Test Driven Development, flow, and systems thinking.
Improve integration of complex infrastructure builds with application deployment processes across major projects and systems.
Troubleshoot complicated technical problems relating to information systems and provide insight and guidance to other specialists.
Analyze, design, and evaluate large automation scripts and systems.
Research technologies that are efficient, effective, and highly scalable.
Coach and provide expertise, and potentially oversee the work of other professionals and support staff in the business analysis discipline.