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.
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Compassion International Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Office
Colorado Springs, CO, United States
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