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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** WE WRITE CODE, INC.
- **Location:** Des Moines, IA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Github, Identity and Access Management, OpenID, Azure Active Directory, Service Discovery, Data Logging, Scripting, Snowflake, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Git, AWS Fargate, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0821497679584e2d

## About the Role

* Senior-level AWS platform engineering across IAM, ECR, ECS/Fargate, Secrets Manager/SSM, S3, VPC networking, and CloudWatch.
 * Experience using Claude Code or another agentic coding assistant in a professional engineering workflow, including critically reviewing AI-generated changes and validating them with tests or evidence.
 * Working knowledge of ECS on Fargate deployments including task definitions, services, networking, IAM task roles, logging, ALB/service discovery, and troubleshooting.
 * Strong Terraform skills for provider migration and module authoring plus GitHub Actions CI/CD expertise with reusable workflows, environments, and OIDC to AWS.
 * Proficiency in Bash/Python scripting, automation-focused repo navigation, Azure literacy for reading existing configs, and solid Docker/Git fundamentals.

What will make you stand out:

 * Experience with Coder and cloud dev environments such as GitHub Codespaces and devcontainers.
 * Familiarity with AWS Blocks/CDK and the judgment to choose them over one-to-one ports when appropriate.
 * Background in Microsoft Entra ID OIDC federation plus exposure to Snowflake/Redshift/Glue.

Location and Hours:

This is a full-time, hybrid position in Des Moines, Iowa working in the office four days a week.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship:

We are not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc.



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