This role pays less than
95%
of similar roles. Most pay
$151,000–$213,200
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$121k
versus about
$182k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Genworth Financial
Genworth Financial is a financial services company focused on mortgage insurance, long-term care insurance, and life insurance and annuity products to help people protect their financial well-being. Industry: Insurance & Financial Services
Genworth Financial currently has
24 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$120,900–$187,000
across 24 roles with salary data.
Senior Platform Engineer - AWS Foundations joins the Cloud Center of Excellence to design, implement, and operate foundational AWS services that power secure, scalable application delivery. This individual contributor role focuses on building a platform-as-a-product to accelerate cloud adoption while maintaining enterprise standards. Key responsibilities include managing landing zones, account structures, governance guardrails, and networking components like VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, and PrivateLink. The engineer will also manage identity solutions via IAM and Identity Center, develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, and maintain CI/CD pipelines within Git-based workflows. Technical expertise required includes AWS networking, security controls, and container platforms such as Kubernetes and EKS. This role solves the challenge of providing application teams with a consistent, automated, and secure foundation for managing cloud workloads while ensuring high reliability through robust observability and monitoring capabilities.
What does a Platform Engineer earn?
Median $150000 from 32 postings across 22 companies.
Design, implement, and support foundational AWS platform services across the enterprise.
Build and maintain AWS landing zones, account structures, and governance guardrails.
Manage AWS networking services including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, and PrivateLink.
Implement identity and access management solutions using IAM and Identity Center (SSO).
Develop and maintain secure Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and automation pipelines.
Troubleshoot complex issues involving networking, identity, security, and infrastructure automation.
Contribute to platform observability, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness capabilities.
Create technical documentation, implementation standards, architecture patterns, and operational runbooks.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
5–8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technology roles.
Strong experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud platform operations.
Experience designing and supporting AWS networking services including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, and network segmentation.
Experience with AWS identity and security services, including IAM, Identity Center (SSO), SCPs, and governance controls.
Hands-on experience developing and managing infrastructure using Terraform in both module-driven and resource-specific configurations.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and Git-based workflows.
Familiarity with container platforms and cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes and EKS.