AWS Software Platform Engineer: Developer Tooling (TypeScript) | Remote

Summary

Mutual of Omaha is seeking an AWS Software Platform Engineer to join its Common Technology Platform team within the Department of Cloud. The role focuses on designing and automating secure AWS infrastructure with AWS CDK and TypeScript, improving developer tooling, and supporting scalable cloud platforms across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Create innovative cloud solutions by designing and automating infrastructure using AWS CDK, TypeScript, and APIs - bringing ideas to life with Infrastructure as Code
• Partner with teams across the organization to uncover challenges, accelerate delivery, and make the developer experience seamless through modern self-service tools
• Apply engineering excellence to solve complex infrastructure problems - driving automation, self-healing capabilities, and reusable components that scale
• Lead lifecycle automation for distributed cloud platforms, ensuring smooth configuration, deployment, and monitoring for a stable, secure environment
• Build and optimize secure cloud networks, including load balancers, firewalls, and VPN connectivity, to keep our systems resilient and reliable

Skills

• Applicants for this position must not now, nor at any point in the future, require sponsorship for employment
• This role is classified as remote; however, periodic in-person attendance will be required at times for activities such as quarterly or project planning, training, or other business-critical meetings
• 5+ years of software development experience, with a heavy emphasis on TypeScript (including advanced types, interface design, and asynchronous patterns)
• 2+ years of hands-on experience authoring, deploying, and debugging infrastructure explicitly using AWS CDK v2 in TypeScript
• Experience must include writing custom L3 constructs with proper scoping and lifecycle controls
• Strong experience managing complex infrastructure as code deployments. This includes handling CDK aspects, escape hatches (modifying underlying L1 CloudFormation structures), cross-stack references, and structural deployment barriers
• Experience implementing automated testing for CDK infrastructure using the aws-cdk-lib assertions assertions framework (e.g., Matchers, Template testing) and integrating CDK synthesis / deployment into automated pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline)
• Strong background in cloud architectural design, testing, and operational support. Proven track record of building highly reusable, modular code components and implementing cloud governance or security compliance (such as CDK - nag)
• Able to work remotely with access to a high-speed internet connection and located in the United States or Puerto Rico
• Ability to challenge the authenticity and effectiveness of team processes where opportunities for improvement exist
• Learn quickly when facing new problems and are a relentless and versatile learner, open to change
• Enjoy the challenge of unfamiliar tasks and ambiguity

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Applicants for this position must not now, nor at any point in the future, require sponsorship for employment
• This role is classified as remote; however, periodic in-person attendance will be required at times for activities such as quarterly or project planning, training, or other business-critical meetings
• 5+ years of software development experience, with a heavy emphasis on TypeScript (including advanced types, interface design, and asynchronous patterns)
• 2+ years of hands-on experience authoring, deploying, and debugging infrastructure explicitly using AWS CDK v2 in TypeScript
• Experience must include writing custom L3 constructs with proper scoping and lifecycle controls
• Strong experience managing complex infrastructure as code deployments. This includes handling CDK aspects, escape hatches (modifying underlying L1 CloudFormation structures), cross-stack references, and structural deployment barriers
• Experience implementing automated testing for CDK infrastructure using the aws-cdk-lib assertions assertions framework (e.g., Matchers, Template testing) and integrating CDK synthesis / deployment into automated pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline)
• Strong background in cloud architectural design, testing, and operational support. Proven track record of building highly reusable, modular code components and implementing cloud governance or security compliance (such as CDK - nag)
• Able to work remotely with access to a high-speed internet connection and located in the United States or Puerto Rico

Nice to Haves

• Ability to challenge the authenticity and effectiveness of team processes where opportunities for improvement exist
• Learn quickly when facing new problems and are a relentless and versatile learner, open to change
• Enjoy the challenge of unfamiliar tasks and ambiguity

Benefits

• Annual bonus opportunity
• 401k plan with a 2% company contribution and 6% company match
• Work-life balance with vacation, personal time and paid holidays
• Remote work arrangement