Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

BCD Travel is hiring a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and evolve scalable AWS platform capabilities for product engineering teams. The role focuses on internal platform development, self-service infrastructure, standardization, developer experience, security, and operational reliability across the enterprise.

Responsibilities:

• Own the platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and delivery outcomes, enabling scalable, self-service infrastructure and developer productivity across the organization
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities including CI/CD templates, reusable modules, golden paths, and standardized environments across engineering teams
• Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) with reusable, versioned modules to ensure consistency, compliance, and scalability
• Architect and manage multi-account AWS environments with strong governance, security guardrails, and automated onboarding for application teams
• Enable self-service provisioning of infrastructure, pipelines, and services through developer portals and APIs (e.g., Backstage or similar platforms)
• Implement centralized observability (logs, metrics, traces) with integrated tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog, Open Telemetry) to support operational excellence
• Define and enforce platform standards for security, compliance, cost optimization, and reliability
• Partner with application engineering teams to onboard them onto the platform, ensuring seamless adoption and high developer experience
• Act as the primary SME for cloud-native patterns including microservices, event-driven architectures, serverless, and container platforms (EKS/ECS)
• Lead platform reliability initiatives including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and resilience engineering practices
• Proactively manage system-wide risks, platform dependencies, and trade-offs between flexibility and standardization
• Collaborate with architects to define scalable data and integration patterns aligned with enterprise architecture
• Mentor platform engineers and DevOps teams, building strong expertise in automation, cloud architecture, and platform design
• Establish KPIs for platform adoption, developer productivity, deployment efficiency, and operational maturity
• Serve as the strategic bridge between infrastructure, security, and application teams to drive platform-first engineering culture

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or Business/Technology Management, or relevant experience
• Extensive experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure roles, with strong focus on building internal platforms at scale
• Deep expertise in AWS services including compute (EC2, Lambda), containers (EKS/ECS), storage (S3), networking (VPC), Events(SQS, SNS, Event Bridge)
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation), including building reusable modules and frameworks
• Experience with developer portals and self-service tooling (Backstage or equivalent)
• Advanced knowledge of CI/CD design and standardization using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS-native services
• You have a strong understanding of cloud security best practices (IAM, KMS, secrets management, network isolation, compliance enforcement)
• Experience managing multi-account AWS environments with centralized governance, logging, and monitoring
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch) and defining SLO-driven monitoring practices
• Expertise in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
• You have an understanding of developer experience principles, including reducing cognitive load and enabling faster delivery cycles
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, etc.) for platform tooling and integration
• Proven ability to influence engineering teams to adopt platform standards and best practices
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to design scalable abstractions for complex infrastructure challenges
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to articulate platform vision and value to both technical and business stakeholders
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and adapt platform strategy to evolving enterprise needs