Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
BCD Travel1 day ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$75k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and delivery outcomes for scalable self-service infrastructure and developer productivity.
- Drive adoption of CI/CD templates, reusable modules, golden paths, standardized environments, developer portals, and APIs.
- Establish reusable, versioned Infrastructure as Code frameworks using Terraform, CDK, and CloudFormation.
- Architect and manage multi-account AWS environments with governance, security guardrails, and automated application-team onboarding.
- Implement self-service provisioning for infrastructure, pipelines, and services through developer portals such as Backstage.
- Build centralized observability for logs, metrics, and traces using CloudWatch, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry.
- Define and enforce platform standards for security, compliance, cost optimization, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Partner with application teams to onboard them to the platform and improve developer experience.
- Provide technical leadership for cloud-native patterns including microservices, event-driven architectures, serverless, and container platforms.
- Lead reliability initiatives involving SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, resilience engineering, platform risks, and dependencies.
- Define scalable data and integration patterns with architects and establish KPIs for platform adoption, productivity, deployment efficiency, and operational maturity.
- Mentor platform engineers and DevOps teams and serve as a bridge between infrastructure, security, and application teams.
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, with a focus on building internal platforms at scale.
- Deep expertise in AWS services including EC2, Lambda, EKS, ECS, S3, VPC, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge.
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, CDK, and CloudFormation, including reusable modules and frameworks.
- Experience with developer portals and self-service tooling such as Backstage or equivalent platforms.
- Advanced knowledge of CI/CD design and standardization using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS-native services.
- Understanding of cloud security practices including IAM, KMS, secrets management, network isolation, and compliance enforcement.
- Experience managing multi-account AWS environments with centralized governance, logging, and monitoring.
- Hands-on experience with Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch, and SLO-driven monitoring practices.
- Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes/EKS containerization and orchestration.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar tools.
- Ability to influence engineering teams, design scalable infrastructure abstractions, solve complex problems, and communicate platform strategy to technical and business stakeholders.
- Ability to learn new technologies and adapt platform strategy to changing enterprise needs.
Benefits
- Full-time remote work opportunity in the United States with flexible working hours.
- Opportunities to grow skills and career through global experiences.
- Generous vacation days.
- Compensation package with mental, physical, and financial wellbeing tools.
- Travel industry professional perks and discounts.
- Inclusive work environment with diversity celebrated.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for employees.
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About BCD Travel
BCD Travel provides corporate travel management, meetings and events services, and analytics software for enterprise clients. Its platform and services cover booking, policy compliance, program audits, duty of care, hotel sourcing, and spend optimization across 170+ countries. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Utrecht, the privately held company serves multinational organizations with a mix of SaaS tools and managed services.