[MTN] Senior DevOps Platform Engineer (AWS)

Software Mind

1d•Remote

About The Position

Software Mind is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with strong DevOps experience to join their team. This role involves working at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and application development, with a focus on building and maintaining core platform components to enable other teams to move faster. The ideal candidate will have a builder and operator mindset, designing scalable systems, automating processes, and ensuring platform reliability in production. This position is part of a project aimed at developing impactful solutions for global companies.

Requirements

Strong experience as a Platform Engineer/DevOps Engineer operating production systems at scale
Proven +4 years hands-on expertise with AWS, especially multi-account environments and organizational governance
Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform (modules, state management, guardrails)
Solid experience running and operating EKS and/or ECS in production
Strong background in CI/CD, GitHub-based workflows, and secure deployment patterns (OIDC, least privilege)
Experience designing developer platforms and internal tooling for self-service and standardization
Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, SCPs, permissions boundaries, and secure networking
Operational excellence mindset: monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs, and incident handling
Professional experience developing services in one or more of: - Java / Kotlin (Spring Boot) - Node.js / TypeScript
Familiarity with modern API design, service runtime concerns, and container-based workloads
Ability to read, debug, and contribute to application code when needed

Responsibilities

Build and maintain core platform components (SSO, Access Management, clusters, networking, CI/CD, observability)
Own Terraform modules, baseline configurations, and guardrails for distributed teams
Design and evolve platform “golden paths” — secure defaults, templates, and standards
Maintain platform IaC (Terraform, modules, state design, multi-account governance)
Integrate with team-owned CDK stacks through stable platform contracts
Lead evolution of platform abstraction layers and service catalogs
Design and manage multi-account AWS landing zone (Orgs, SCPs, permissions boundaries)
Own developer onboarding patterns (IAM SSO access, automation, pipelines)
Build safe cross-account deployment workflows (GitHub OIDC, least privilege)
Design and operate ECS and EKS clusters used by hundreds of services
Establish best practices for container execution, networking, autoscaling
Manage central networking components (VPC, TGW, Route53). Ensure secure east–west communication between workloads in different accounts
Provide self-service tools and templates for teams (pipelines, service definitions, actions)
Abstract platform complexity to enable fast and safe deployments for all teams
Own documentation, workshops, patterns, and architectural guidance
Operate and evolve platform-wide logging, metrics, and tracing systems
Ensure operational standards for platform components