SENIOR AWS DEVSECOPS AND PLATFORM ENGINEER
COUNTRY
Europe
FORMAT
Remote
Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a **Senior AWS DevSecOps and Platform Engineer** for a full\-time position (40 hours per week) in Europe. Our client is a leading global toy manufacturer with an award\-winning, robust portfolio of wholly owned and licensed brands. Founded in 1997, the company celebrates imaginative play with a progressive focus on identifying emerging trends and turning them into high\-quality products for consumers of all ages. It engages consumers through innovative play experiences with popular brands. In addition to toys, offerings include Metaverse gaming, costumes, and pet products.
You'll define, build, and govern the cloud platform. You will own the design and enforcement of platform architecture standards, drive infrastructure\-as\-code practices, embed security into CI/CD pipelines, and lead the engineering team in delivering a scalable, secure, and developer\-friendly AWS environment. It is a senior leadership\-track role for an engineer who is equally strong technically and in cross\-functional collaboration.
REQUIREMENTS
- 8\+ years of progressive experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
- 3\+ years of hands\-on experience in Terraform development and infrastructure automation at scale.
- 3\+ years of experience managing or leading high\-performing technical teams.
- Advanced knowledge of Terraform (modules, remote state, workspaces, provider management).
- In\-depth understanding of AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, CodePipeline.
- Proven track record designing and operating secure, highly available cloud platforms.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent.
- Experience with AWS security services, including GuardDuty, Inspector, KMS, Security Hub, and WAF.
- Expertise in monitoring \& observability with CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent.
- Strong knowledge of Python, Bash, or similar for automation.
- Knowledge of container orchestration, ECS, EKS, or equivalent experience with Kubernetes.
- Strategic thinker who balances long\-term platform vision with near\-term delivery.
NICE TO HAVE
- AWS certifications: Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or Security Specialty.
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, App Mesh).
- Background in FinOps/cloud cost optimization practices.
- Exposure to multi\-cloud or hybrid cloud environments (Azure, GCP).
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define, govern, and evolve platform architecture standards, 'golden path' patterns, and AWS reference architectures.
- Drive creation of self\-service tools and internal developer platforms (standardized CI/CD templates, deployment tooling).
- Conduct formal architectural reviews and establish platform governance and cloud cost management strategies.
- Champion adoption of modern architectural patterns, including microservices and serverless.
- Design, implement, and manage modular Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure provisioning.
- Ensure IaC is reusable, scalable, secure, and well\-versioned to minimize technical debt.
- Enforce code testing, version control, and modularization best practices across the team.
- Integrate security practices directly into platform pipelines through automated security testing and vulnerability scanning.
- Implement and enforce IAM, access control, and network security best practices in AWS environments.
- Leverage native AWS security services (GuardDuty, Inspector, KMS, Security Hub) to strengthen the security posture.
- Build and manage centralized CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and Terraform.
WE OFFER
- US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
- Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.
- Regular performance appraisals to support your growth.
- Flexibility in workspace, either remote or our welcoming office.
- Bonuses for article writing, public talks, and other activities.
- Generous time off, including vacation, national holidays, sick leaves, and family days.
- Personalized learning programs tailored to your interests and skill development.
- Free tech webinars and meetups organized by Svitla.
- Regular corporate online activities.
- Awesome team and a friendly, supportive community!
ABOUT SVITLA
- *Svitla Systems** is a global digital solutions company headquartered in the U.S. and operating across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and APAC. Since 2003, we have served a wide range of clients — from innovative start\-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
Our success is built on partnership. By integrating seamlessly with clients’ teams, we create lasting collaborations that drive real results.
We are strong advocates of workplace flexibility, remote culture, individual approach to professional and personal growth.
Svitla is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for cooperation without regard to age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, race, color, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Our global mission is to build a business that contributes to wellbeing of our partners, personnel, and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world.
Together, we are coding a brighter tomorrow — and living it.
LET'S MEET IN PERSON
### **Oleksandra****Lapko**
### **RECRUITER**
Email
o.lapko@svitla.com