Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

🕒 September 14

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $75k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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BCD Travel is a leading business travel management company that simplifies the conversation around corporate travel by offering integrated solutions and services to meet various program goals. With a global network spanning over 100 countries, BCD Travel provides tailored travel management services, risk management solutions, and innovative tools to enhance the travel experience for organizations and their employees. Their expertise in the travel industry has earned them multiple recognitions, and they are committed to sustainability and optimizing business travel programs.

📋 Description

• Own the platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and delivery outcomes • Drive adoption of CI/CD templates, reusable modules, golden paths, and standardized environments • 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 onboarding • Enable self-service provisioning through developer portals and APIs • Implement centralized observability using logs, metrics, traces, CloudWatch, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry • Define and enforce standards for security, compliance, cost optimization, and reliability • Partner with application engineering teams to onboard them onto the platform • Serve as primary SME for microservices, event-driven architectures, serverless, and container platforms • Lead reliability initiatives involving SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and resilience engineering • Manage system-wide risks, platform dependencies, and flexibility-versus-standardization trade-offs • Collaborate with architects on scalable data and integration patterns • Mentor platform engineers and DevOps teams • Establish KPIs for platform adoption, developer productivity, deployment efficiency, and operational maturity • Bridge infrastructure, security, and application teams to drive a 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 EC2, Lambda, EKS/ECS, S3, VPC, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge • Ability to design a medium to large scale system in AWS • Familiarity with building APIs in AWS and authentication • Basic understanding of Python, JavaScript, and C# • Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CDK, and CloudFormation • Experience with developer portals and self-service tooling such as Backstage • Advanced knowledge of CI/CD design and standardization using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS-native services • Understanding of cloud security best 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, and CloudWatch and SLO-driven monitoring practices • Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes/EKS • Understanding of developer experience principles • Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, etc. • Proven ability to influence engineering teams to adopt platform standards and best practices • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent communication skills • Ability to quickly learn new technologies and adapt platform strategy

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home or remote opportunities • Opportunities to grow your skillset and career • Generous vacation days • Compensation package including mental, physical, and financial wellbeing tools • Travel industry professional perks and discounts • Inclusive work environment where diversity is celebrated • Reasonable and necessary accommodations

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