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This role will champion developer experience by building self-service capabilities, golden paths, and automation for common workflows, while ensuring platform reliability through SRE practices and compliance automation. The ideal candidate will have experience with Atlassian Compass (preferred) or Backstage for Internal Developer Portals, strong CI/CD skills, and a solution-oriented mindset.\nWhy you'll love this role:\nIn this role, you’ll design and evolve a modern AWS-based platform that prioritizes developer experience, automation, and secure-by-default practices. You’ll have the opportunity to build internal developer platforms, golden paths, and self-service capabilities that meaningfully accelerate engineering teams. This is a hands-on, highly technical role where you’ll influence platform standards, embed reliability and security into every layer, and work with cutting-edge tooling across DevOps, DevSecOps, and observability. If you’re motivated by solving complex infrastructure challenges and creating scalable platforms that empower developers, this role offers both impact and ownership.\nEssential duties include the following:\nArchitect and maintain AWS-based infrastructure (ECS, EKS, ECR, VPC, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS).\nImplement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CDK (preferred), AWS cloud formation and Terraform for modular, reusable patterns.\nOptimize cost, performance, and security across environments.\nOrchestrate containers, observability stacks, and scaling strategies across distributed systems to ensure reliability and high availability.\nBuild and standardize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and deployment strategies.\nIntegrate GitHub Advanced Security (CodeQL, Secret Scanning, Dependabot) into pipelines for proactive security.\nEnable OIDC-based deployments for secure, secretless AWS access.\nDrive adoption of internal developer platform (IDP) such as Atlassian Compass (Preferred) or Backstage to enable developer self service, service cataloging, scorecards, and golden paths.\nImplement OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and metrics.\nConfigure APM monitoring tooling (e.g Datadog ), including dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for application health and performance.\nImprove MTTR through automated incident response and runbooks.\nEmbed security checks in CI/CD pipelines (e.g., SAST, dependency scanning, secret scanning, container image scanning, etc.) to support SOC 2 and PCI compliance\nExperience with Policy as Code using OPA (Open Policy Agent) and Conftest to validate IaC templates before deployment will be preferred\nApply AWS Well-Architected Framework principles across all platform designs to ensure security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and operational excellence.\nSBOM (Software Bill of Materials): Ensures transparency of all dependencies for compliance and vulnerability management.\nCosign (Image Signing): Provides cryptographic verification of container images to prevent tampering and supply chain attacks.\nWork with AI MCP servers to automate operational workflows and enhance developer experience.\nPartner with engineering teams to define platform standards and best practices.\nMentor peers and promote automation-first culture.\nOperate with minimal supervision and deliver solution-oriented outcomes.\nSerious candidates will possess the minimum qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related of study from an accredited four-year college or university or equivalent work experience may be considered.\nMinimum of seven (7) years of experience designing, building, and operating AWS-based cloud platforms utilizing DevOps and DevSecOps practices, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, observability tooling, and secure, scalable platform engineering solutions.\nCloud: AWS (ECS, EKS, ECR, IAM, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS).\nIaC: AWS CDK (preferred), Terraform.\nCI/CD: GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS).\nLanguages: C#, Python, Bash, Go, Java, JavaScript.\nContainers: ECS, EKS, ECR.\nObservability: OpenTelemetry, Datadog.\nIDP: Atlassian Compass (preferred) or Backstage.\nStrong problem-solving and solution-oriented mindset.\nAWS services and observability tools like Datadog.\nPolicy-as-Code experience (OPA, Conftest).\nSecrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, Vault).\nExperience with developer portals and platform standardization (Atlassian Compass or Backstage).\nAWS Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty) would be preferred. \nGitHub Certification (GitHub Actions or GitHub Advanced Security) would be preferred.\nOPA/Policy-as-Code Certification (or equivalent governance/security automation credentials) would be preferred.\nSWBC offers*:\nCompetitive overall compensation package\nWork/Life balance \nEmployee engagement activities and recognition awards \nYears of Service awards\nCareer enhancement and growth opportunities \nLeadership Academy and Mentor Program\nContinuing education and career certifications \nVariety of healthcare coverage options\nTraditional and Roth 401(k) retirement plans \nLucrative Wellness Program\n*Based upon employee eligibility\nAdditional Information:\nSWBC is a Substance-Free Workplace and requires pre-employment drug testing.\nPlease note, SWBC does not hire tobacco users as allowed by law.\nTo learn more about SWBC, visit our website at www.SWBC.com. 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