Compassion is looking for an AWS platform 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.
- Devops Culture – Extensive Devops experience as a way of life that is at the foundation of all delivery.
- 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.
- Cross‑functional leadership — Effective leadership across teams; strong communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
- Release & operations collaboration — Ability to partner with deployment/release teams to implement best practices for operations, security, and financial stewardship.
- Agile delivery — Firm understanding of Agile principles, Scrum, and Kanban.
- AI‑driven personal effectiveness —Experience enhancing personal productivity and decision‑making by leveraging modern AI capabilities for rapid information synthesis, workflow optimization, problem solving, and continuous improvement While maintaining high quality output.
- Self‑directed learning — Continuously learning and improving technical and operational capabilities.
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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Skills Required
- Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and consistently demonstrate Christian faith and conduct.
- Extensive experience operating and optimizing AWS environments at scale.
- Deep understanding of AWS Cloud Operations lifecycle management, including security, governance, compliance, and disaster recovery.
- Hands-on experience implementing and operating AWS Landing Zone Accelerator, including governance, multi-account architecture, security controls, and automation.
- Experience designing and operating AWS Lattice service-to-service communication, secure connectivity, traffic routing, service mesh patterns, cross-account communication, and hybrid networking.
- Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into AWS platform engineering and maintaining foundational services.
- Extensive DevOps experience and commitment to DevOps practices.
- Strong automation skills involving infrastructure as code, pipelines, and operational scripting.
- Experience migrating complex workloads onto AWS.
- Ability to design, build, and operate Kubernetes and AWS serverless workloads.
- Strong Python development skills for operational tooling, automation scripts, and AWS Lambda functions.
- Effective cross-functional leadership, 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 using modern AI capabilities to improve productivity, decision-making, workflow optimization, and problem solving.
- Commitment to continuous self-directed technical and operational learning.
What We Do
Compassion International is a Christian child development ministry aimed at releasing children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty in Jesus’ name. We are church-based: Compassion believes the Church is God’s chosen instrument to bring hope to a hurting world. We believe the strategic placement of local churches makes them best suited to address the holistic needs of the children in their communities. And only they can effectively deliver the Jesus-based teaching and whole-life care that children in poverty deserve. Compassion partners with 8,000+ churches in 25 countries around the world to deliver our holistic child development program. We are child-focused: Compassion’s ministry is focused on the individual child and his/her development. We offer this assistance irrespective of caste, creed, class or religion. At Compassion, we believe entire communities will feel the positive impact of our presence because what happens in the life of a child ripples throughout his or her environment. We are Christ-centered: Jesus is the core of our ministry and his life and teachings shape our programs. They reflect the spiritual commitments of our staff. And they guide how we love people, respect communities and cooperate with nations. We are committed to integrity: We hold ourselves to the highest professional and biblical principles in all aspects of our ministry and maintain the highest industry standards for our allocation of funds. Compassion and Compassion International are registered trademarks of the United States government
