Senior Platform Engineer

. Maintain hundreds to thousands of AWS accounts .

Posted 10/16/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $125,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudLinuxPythonGo

Key responsibilities & impact

Maintain hundreds to thousands of AWS accounts
Own account creation and placement, organization-wide guardrails and identity baselines, per-account configuration, patching, drift, cost hygiene, and log hygiene
Keep accounts on the same known-good baseline and identify accounts that are not compliant
Develop, deploy, and maintain new platform features
Design features, write code and infrastructure definitions, ship through the deployment pipeline, and operate what is shipped
Automate repetitive infrastructure work, including setup, onboarding, console operations, and drift checks
Extend infrastructure-as-code libraries and deployment pipelines targeting individual accounts or account classes
Run containerized workloads and supporting identity, networking, and virtual desktop services
Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code to build automation
Monitor platform health and respond to incidents
Drive projects from scope through completion
Move changes through change control and produce audit-ready evidence

What you’ll need

3–5 years of professional experience in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
Hands-on AWS at multi-account scale, including Organizations, IAM and cross-account access, networking, and container services
Production infrastructure-as-code reused across many environments
Track record of owning projects from concept to production
Python, Go, or Bash at the level of tooling other people depend on
Proficiency in Linux and Windows Server environments, including directory services and group policy
CI/CD pipelines built or substantially improved
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident
Must be able to work in a regulated environment handling sensitive government data
Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available
Nice to have: restricted or government cloud regions
Nice to have: regulated environments including CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, FedRAMP, or SOC 2
Nice to have: multi-account governance, landing zones, guardrails, automated account vending
Nice to have: identity and single sign-on integration at scale
Ownership, clear communication, fleet thinking, automation mindset, and simple-yet-robust architecture

Comp & perks